agree with both feet up. Becoz intel and amd had different memory controller. Intel had best combination when both same speed to eliminate bottleneck on whether side. AMD which having better experience in designing memory controller embedded.

Generally, you are right, but keep in mind higher speed resulted in loosen memory timing too, which mean not much different in the end, at least for now.

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Added on July 25, 2009, 7:17 pmWell, Intel just rip-off the AMD Hyper-Transport and name it QPI or whatever on their i7, i5 and i3.
Which mean AMD have nothing to fight with intel now..... The olny thing they can do is cut, cut and cut their cpu price to remain competitive, Which is good for us, consumers

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Added on July 25, 2009, 7:19 pmTurion and Athlon have almost the same performance. Keep in mind only the Turion ultra ZM series have larger L2 cache, the normal turion have only 1mb L2cache just like their Athlon brother.

This post has been edited by InFe_eD: Jul 25 2009, 07:19 PM

Athlon is 512KB only la...

anyway, for K8, it's the speed that matters, the cache doesn't help much... if u notice, the 90nm Windsor K8 has got more cache than the newer 65nm Brisbane K8, but for the same model number, Brisbane is 100MHz faster...

Turion x2 Ultra mainly is to refine the production process to push the speed further...

only when u go into K10 with shared cache then it's good...

This post has been edited by astria: Jul 25 2009, 07:27 PM

Just bought K50AB from lyp, thought going to install win xp, any sifu-sifu here could guide me to the SATA hitachi driver??

I'm not asking the RAM, I'm asking about the type of VRAM on the 4570..
is it DDR2, DDR3 or GDDR3.. its depends to the manufacturer to choose which one..

anyone knows about the type of VRAM on the k40ab?

Ummm ok, maybe i shud be more specific

Athlon QL = 512kbx2 L2cache = 1mb total
Turion RM = '''''''''''''''''''same''''''''''''''''''''

Turion Ultra ZM = 1mbx2 l2cache = 2mb total



Now I hope there would be no more people asking about why only athlon and no turion.........

Clock to clock the Windsor is faster, since it has lower CPU cycle to fetch data from L2 cache, it only took 12-13 cycle tested using CPU-Z latency check,
Brisbane is supposed to have larger cache than Windsor in the first place but somehow they don't implement it, maybe the performance difference is not huge. When I check the QL-64 latency it reaches 20 cycle

I've play a bit with k50AB just now, spec is the same but its way too big and slightly too heavy for me, and the IQ is not as good as the 14". Price is the same, I guess they cut LCD quality to maintain same pricing as k40

Its DDR2, with 500MHz (1GHz effective) speed

This post has been edited by Najmods: Jul 25 2009, 07:49 PM

IIRC, Najmod told me that 4570 on the k40ab is using ddr2 Vram, not that it make much different anyway, with its puny 64 bit bus-width....

so for k40ab, is it worth to add ram?

hm... so the K50AB has arrived as well.. how's the temperature like?

depends on wat u do...

normally 2GB is pretty sufficient for day-to-day use and light gaming...

lol. thaNks.. just got this lappie..happiii with it~ just too shiny liao.. left so many fingerprints on it..

2GB is sufficient, unless you multitask (opens boatload of programs at the same time). I got not enough memory at one time, when I open 50+ tabs in Firefox and decided to play Crysis while the browser is still in the background, during the game, it gives lack of memory. I doubt you'll do what I do, but if you does, buying 4GB now is a good bet, since DDR3 is becoming mainstream and DDR2 prices will going to raise because of it

WTT>My Asus K40AB (brought on 24/07/09) to urs Asus K50AB pm me if interest....

... so fast got such things already ah...

im surprise to read tat isn't it kinda difficult to change tab when u have open many tabs
btw, for me
2GB ram enuf
3GB ram useful when u suddenly multitasking
4GB, basically the extra 1GB useless unless u go for 64bit & other heavy application

both is similar u r not satisfy with the temperature?

it doesn't hurt to get more... moreover, we re now at the pt where DDR2 is being phased out... prices ve already rise from the lowest time earliest this yr... so it will juz get more ex...

cool, but how much u wanna to add on? Rm500?

I've got used to open so many tabs for years now, with Tab Mix Plus its easier, but of course you need a mouse, touchpad would be PITA

Going for 3GB is silly, since the price of 2GB RAM is cheap why settle for 1GB? Plus you have slight speed boost because enabling dual channel when run 2x2GB

thanks for suggestion
now i stick with 3GB 1st coz i not really need so much
maybe will buy another one on Dec