How to buy the processor for the DIY market opportunity)

The Internet cafe industry can be said to be truly carried forward in China. It is also the special industry of Internet cafes that has brought great business opportunities to the entire DIY market in China. Hardware vendors that are smart in the face of business opportunities will inevitably not let go, even processor giants like AMD and Intel. At the beginning of the new year, the Internet bar industry mainly wants to upgrade or upgrade its dozens or even hundreds of PCs. What kind of processor is suitable? Or which processor is more cost-effective? Before answering this question, let's take a look at the general layout of Internet cafes and machine requirements.

Generally, large Internet cafes configure partitions for machines, generally, areas with general Internet access, chat, and simple games, and areas dedicated to game players such as World of Warcraft large online games or other large 3D games, some Internet cafes also have high-end configuration areas such as the dual-core processor experience zone. For the configuration of basic applications such as surfing the Internet, Internet cafes generally choose to use the Sai yangd or flash dragon processor platform. After all, these applications do not have high requirements and the entry-level configuration is sufficient, in addition, when the current price of AM2 flash dragon is too high, many Internet cafe owners will choose a low-price competition D platform, which can save a lot of money. For areas such as high-end dual-core experience zones that are related to the construction of Internet cafe images, generally Internet cafe owners will choose the most powerful or advanced processor and corresponding platforms. At present, selecting the Core 2 Duo processor and P965 chipset is a good choice. How to choose the most popular gaming platforms that occupy the largest proportion of Internet cafes is the biggest headache for Internet cafe owners. How Should Internet cafe owners choose from the beginning of the new year?

In the new year, we first saw Intel's frequent market operations. In addition to the new four-Core 2 Quad Q6600 and the release of the low-end dual-Core 2 Duo E4300 in January 21, Intel will also significantly reduce prices for multiple models of Pentium 4, such as 651, 650, 641, 640, 631, 630, 541, and so on, the minimum is only 69 US dollars (Thousands of contract prices), about 530 yuan, the domestic market price should be around 600 yuan, which is currently the most cost-effective single-core processor Pentium 4 631/630/531 and other three products.

After the New Year's price reduction, the Pentium 4 processor, once a high-end product, eventually fell into the middle and low-end market. After the price reduction, there are three officially priced processors with the lowest frequency of 3 GHz. The three processors are Pentium 4 531, 630, and 631, respectively. The Pentium 4 531 and 630 are made in the 90nm process, while the Pentium 4 631 is made in the 65nm process. As Intel has fully switched to the 65nm process, most of the time we will see on the market is the Pentium 4 631, which adopts the new process. After the price adjustment, the price of Pentium 4 631 will be adjusted to $69. The actual market price is around 600 yuan, which is equivalent to the current price of Pentium 4 630. In addition, with the new process, the power consumption and power consumption of Pentium 4 631 are reduced, and the overclocking capability is stronger. Therefore, it is worth choosing from the other two processors at the same price.

On the other hand, AMD seems quite quiet compared with Intel's drastic price reduction to meet cold promotions. In fact, AMD should not have too many actions in the middle and low-end markets. The price of a single core processor is close to the AMD bottom line, we can only think of a small gap between AMD's low-end Sempron flash dragon processor and the mainstream Athlon 64 X-Dragon processor. If the price of AMD processors is lower, this should not happen. At present, AMD is mainly used to combat Intel's Pentium 4 processor products, such as Athlon 64 3200 + and 3500 +. The frequency ranges from 2.2 GHz to GHz, and the performance gap is not obvious. These two processors are currently priced at around 600 yuan, which is more expensive than Intel's Pentium 4 631. Compared with 3500 + and 3200 +, although the price is slightly higher, the performance is not as good as 3500 +. It is not a very reasonable choice for Internet cafe game machines pursuing game performance, selecting 3500 + will be more appropriate.

From the above situation, we can know that the CPU most suitable for game configuration in Internet cafes is Intel's Pentium 4 631 and AMD's Athlon 64 3500 +, who are the two processors worth choosing?

Pentium 4 631 uses the Cedar Mill core manufactured by 65nm technology. The external frequency is 200 MHz, the frequency is 15x, the clock speed is 3.0 GHz, the frontend bus is 800 MHz, and it has 2 MB level-2 cache, supports MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, and EM64T instruction sets. It also supports Intel's EIST energy-saving technology and HT hyper-Threading Technology to provide a logical core for enhanced computing capabilities.