Il giorno mar, 12/09/2006 alle 19.41 +0300, Sampo Savolainen ha scritto: > The bottom line: Core 2 Duo beats anything AMD can offer. Even the more > cheaper not top-of-the-line Core 2 Duo processors kill the fastest AMD > processors in most cases. Oh, and the AMD processors use almost twice > the energy of a Core 2 Duo. > > Though. All of this will change eventually, of course. :) :) The lower grade AMDs are still competitive with the comparable ones from Intel, and are available in two low-consumption models, lower than Intel (ADO, rated at 65W maximum, and ADD, at 35W). They might be useful to build a near-silent pc (but you'll might run into issues with NVidia and ATI chipsets, VIA might be a good choice). At least according to these tests (note: conducted under Windows) http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/low_e/
