Will be looking to build a new PC in around 6 months time, is AMD bringing any new CPU's out soon ? have not heard much about steamroller. Is it even going to be released ? or what about intel, anything good with them coming out soon ?
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If your current PC is what you're looking at upgrading, then you're not looking at AMD CPU's.
Intel are releasing Broadwell, but that's not going to set the world on fire in CPU performance over Haswell.
AMD are not releasing any new chips for at least a year.
Even then, their next CPU line, Zen, may be as pathetic as their previous one, Bulldozer. We simply won't know until we see the benchmarks.
AMD's shrinking R&D budget doesn't exactly inspire confidence that their next architecture will be any better than their previous one.
I yearn for it though!!!I don't see the 2003 - 2007 years of AMD ever returning.
Wait till Skylake to upgrade.
AMD are caught between a rock and a hard place unfortunately. Fighting Intel on one end and Nvidia on the other, both huge companies with huge budgets. All this can only be bad news for us consumers.
Wouldn't you be best off upgrading just the GPU atm? Going from that HD 5770 to something like GTX 970 or R9 290 would be massive!