Shops Online Price
- Jumbo Computers
- Centralfield
- SE Computer (MK)
- A GRADE
- 正都電腦
- Hornington Crazy Sale
- System Express (Server products)
- Comdex (Out-dated)
- PCCW Online Shop
- Fortress
- Software
- hkishop
- Oversea
- 光華商場
- CNet Shopper.com
- Expansys (PDA, Mobile & Wireless products)
Online Markets
Pricing Websites
Pricing Plan / Forecast
Intel CPU
- 2007-07-22 hkepc (C2Q 6600 US$266)
- 2007-Q3 hkepc (C2Q 6600 US$266)
- 2007-Q3 hkepc@2007-03-12
- 2007-06-03 hkepc@2007-03-12 (Pentium E2000, Celeron 400)
- 2007-04-26 xbitlabs (uptil 2007-05-01)
- 2007-04-23 tgdaily
AMD CPU
- 2007-04-09 xbitlabs (uptil 2007-05-01)
- 2007-04-09 tgdaily
RAM
nVIDIA
Price / Performance Ratio
Information Sources
- LegionHardware
- OCWorkbench.com
- AMD CPU Model Check
- AMD 65nm/90nm Athlon X2 power compare
- AMD Dual Channel DDR2-667 vs DDR2-800 performance
Only 5-10% gain - AM2 AMD CPU’s memory problem
Memory controller itself only 8GB/s?
Info – AMD 690G
- AMD 690 series
- 690V/690G benchmark result
- Tech Report on 690G
- Test with X2 5200+ 2.6G, 2x1M, 90nm (~1.35x of 3800+) - 690G only Shader 2.0, GeForce 6150 Shader 3.0 - GeForce 6150 SE (MCP61G) is integrated chipset to compet with 690G - RAM write 6150 is better than 690G for 33%, read and latency are similar - Cinebench rendering & shading similar - Cinebench OpenGL Shading 20% slower - Cinebench OpenGL hardware 690G 62% slower - Sphinx speech recogn. similar - Media encoding similar - 3dsmax 5.1 DirectX similar - 3dsmax 5.1 OpenGL 43% slower - Photoshop, ACDSee, Office, Mozilla, WinZIP, Nero similar - 3DMark06 fillrate 690G 20% better, multi-fillrate 80% better - Oblivion 800x600, 690G 17-27fps, 35-40% better - Battlefield 2 1024x768, 21-32fps, 33% better - FEAR 1024x768, 22-35fps, 94% better - WMV 1080p, CPU 690G 26% vs 6150 22% (3800+ @35-40%?) - H.264 1080p, CPU 690G 60% vs 6150 45% (3800+ @80-90%?) - SATA I/O/s 690G 30% slower - SATA I/O response 690G 10% slower - iPEAK I/O test 20% slower - SATA burst 10% slower, media speed similar - ATA speed similar, some 5% slower - USB speed 5% better - Ethernet speed, similar 940Mbps, 19% vs 16% CPU - PCIe, 17% vs 14% - PCI, 17% vs 16% - Power Idle, 48w/57w vs 49w/60w or 53w/65w - Power Load, 117w vs 116w or 124w
Info – nVIDIA MCP68 GeForce 7050
- MCP68 China motherboard
- BIOStar TForce 7050 (TF7050-M2) motherboard picture
- MCP68 GeForce 7025/7050 news to compet with AMD 690G
- Brief on 7050
- MCP68 sample vs 690G benchmark
- X2 3600+ 2.0G, 256Kx2, 90nm - Far Cry 1024x768 similar - Quake4 1024x768 14.2 vs 10.4fps - DOOM3 800x600 16.8 vs 10.4fps