Core 2 Duo and 800MHz FSB

This Anandtech article may be old news, but I want to post it anyway. It's still a pretty good read for anyone who want to compare Core Duo and Core 2 Duo.

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2808&p=4

One argument the article made is that Core 2 Duo has "hungrier" cores than Core Duo. Therefore, the 667MHz FSB of the current 945 chipset is a performance bottleneck. The 800 FSB of the 965 chipset will bring out the real performance gain. I would like to see your opinions on this.

The link goes to page 4 of the article. The whole article is 17 pages long(half of them are benchmark comparison charts).

 

Intel sure has lagged behind AMD when it comes to FSB technology.

 

Anyone else????

 

Actually, AMD does not even use Front Side Buses; they use HyperTransport links:
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/DevelopWithAMD/0,,30_2252_2353,00.html

The Core 2 Duo's performance is somewhat capped by the 667MHz FSB on the current Centrino platform, which is why there is not a larger performance difference between it and the Core Duo. We'll have to wait for the benchmarks to see what sort of performance gains the 800Mhz FSB brings.

 

Intel's FSB replacement, 'CSI,' (no, they're not going to be investigating crimes), which is expected in 2008/2009, is supposed to surpass AMD's HyperTransport performance.

About time.

Intel has great technology going. Time to bring the FSB up to par with the CPU.

 

Will the laptops with the new platform be more expensive than similarily equipped machines today? Is it worth the wait (if one was interested in gettin a Core 2 Duo that is)?

 

I think they ll be a tiny bits expensiv consider that u hav to renew the wireless hardware. But then, the price would stay about the same, unless they start to charge launching fees. Waiting is endless.. so get anything that u want. Actually the greatest leap of the PC is the CPU, from single core multithread to duo core. That's wat i think.

 

It is a common trend to see, newer laptops are cheaper than what they replace. Worse case is that the newer machines will be the same price but with more specifications.

But, again, looking back over the past decade, or so, of the development of laptops. These have gone down in price; where-in the early 1990s you’d pay close to $5,000 ~ $6,000 for the top-end model, today’s top-end models fair-out at about $3,000!

Of course, you have to remember to factor in the additional features of the new machines that weren’t available back then, and this makes these new machines even cheaper than they “appear”.