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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Loowi_ashley said:
O.k so whats next?
Im stuck on 2.5 year old i7 920@ 4GHZ, I was hoping this was only to be my upgrade.
Where can I upgrade to now, just get a 2600k or is something else comming up soon?
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As said whats the point?? Im sure there is nothing its struggling to do or play especialy at 4gig.
 
wannabedamned said:
Mainly, Because its new tech without much concrete information. With Sandybridge being top dog, This opens the flood gates for the possibility of a new top dog coming along, which any performance enthusiast out there would welcome.
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yep, because its relatively close to launching and yet no benchmarks of the final silicone, yet intel released a few benchmarks for sandybridge-e just a few days ago and that isn't out until mid-november.
 
clocka said:
yep, because its relatively close to launching and yet no benchmarks of the final silicone, yet intel released a few benchmarks for sandybridge-e just a few days ago and that isn't out until mid-november.
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I would imagine they are doing it as a spoiler for BD launch.
 
wannabedamned said:
We dont all need them, Some of us do, some of us dont.

As asked above, why do you have a multithreaded CPU? Surely you researched the benefits when you bought it?
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It's not so much that. It's he's asked about 6 cores, which are only 6 threads, yet has an 8 threaded CPU himself.

Multi-threaded is obvious, because that's the future, and they don't make any single core CPU's with current IPC of SB etc. :p

Fine details yo'.
 
The thing is, I'd be tempted to ignore the preliminary info if AMD hadn't been so....lacklustre in recent years.

I'm also in the 920@4ghz boat and it looks like it'll be another 18 months or so for a worthwhile upgrade. Not a bad thing tbh, as monies will go towards a lovely Crossfire 7000-series setup once out ;)
 
anyone who thinks an overclocked i7 needs replaced is quite frankly, either A) crazy, like really crazy B) has too much money and nothing else to do or C) for some reason actually things their processor is slow?! come on people, they will be fine for a couple years yet without a shadow of doubt, what the hell do you people do with your systems to make an i7 'struggle'? :confused:
 
i cant believe people that want to change their i5/i7... unless they are working (and i dont know if the performance increase is that big), i dont see a reason...

people seems to upgrade way too fast nowadays... its funny lol
 
Faruko said:
i cant believe people that want to change their i5/i7... unless they are working (and i dont know if the performance increase is that big), i dont see a reason...

people seems to upgrade way too fast nowadays... its funny lol
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Whats the point of changing if everything is running fine,, it wont work or look any diff on the screen either..:eek:
 
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wannabedamned said:
Mainly, Because its new tech without much concrete information. With Sandybridge being top dog, This opens the flood gates for the possibility of a new top dog coming along, which any performance enthusiast out there would welcome.
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No, not mainly imo. I don't think anyone really expects Bulldozer to beat Sandybridge

Main reason is because it's the first real new thing AMD has done in like.... forever. For years AMD have pretty much had the same tech/architecture and that's finally changing
 
Gashman said:
anyone who thinks an overclocked i7 needs replaced is quite frankly, either A) crazy, like really crazy B) has too much money and nothing else to do or C) for some reason actually things their processor is slow?! come on people, they will be fine for a couple years yet without a shadow of doubt, what the hell do you people do with your systems to make an i7 'struggle'? :confused:
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<< Just wonders how many browser windows does i take to put an i7 at its limits? :D
 
jonny512379 said:
<< Just wonders how many browser windows does i take to put an i7 at its limits? :D
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Well I opened 50 IE9 windows, as well as my FF browser, using a i7 2600k @ 4.5ghz, and I think it got to 2 or 3% cpu usage.

Overkill, yes :p

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