AMD Quad Core now at OcUK

Gashman · 22 Mar 2007 at 00:17

why is it that bad? i mean sure core architecture is a little better than K8, but its not the holy grail you all make it out to be, the fact remains that four K8 cores running at 3Ghz is still a force to be reckoned with, only advantage intel have over AMD at the moment is slight lead clock/clock performance and overclockability, if you don't overclock then im sorry but conroe is just another over-hyped processor thats is so close to equal to there AMD price competitors, so no compairing E6600 with 3800+, i mean sure the E6600 would be better cause it can overclock more but who cares if overclocking isn't an issue, and what the hell are you all going on about saying 'this is pointless, barcelona is months away', thats like saying don't be an idiot and upgrade to C2D cause 'petryn' isn't far off, i give up trying to understand what it is people want here :confused:

, and my hat goes off to the OCUK people for getting these at the cheapest price around, pity the whole world is against these things selling

simonnance · 22 Mar 2007 at 00:42

Gashman said:
conroe is just another over-hyped processor thats is so close to equal to there AMD price competitors

In fairness, that's because AMD saw than unless they cut prices SERIOUSLY on their A64s, they would be left with a load of chips that no one wanted, and it means its "high end" is hardly a touch on the top end Core 2s. Clock for clock Core2 beats A64, which means the architecture is seriously well designed, and as for "slight performance increase"..... well, if you can call ~20% real world performance increase "slight". Lets not re-fight A64 vs Core2..... Core 2 wins in pretty much every category, the match to bet on is Core 2 vs Barcelona, then Barcelona vs Penryn.

When it comes to spending ~£800 on something that will be completely out of date in a monts time, and is outclassed by components already out..... what's the point in wasting the money? Even a QX6700 isnt that expensive! ~Not only that, the socket is going to be outdated too (IIRC barcelona are using the "new" 1000+ LGA like socket?), so you are not even going to be able to re-use the mobo.

matt100 · 22 Mar 2007 at 00:48

lol.. 1 in stock.

expecting a lot of demand then?

trojan698 · 22 Mar 2007 at 01:10

I seem to remember a post stating OcUK wouldn't stock this rubbish!

simonnance · 22 Mar 2007 at 01:40

matt100 said:
lol.. 1 in stock.

expecting a lot of demand then?

You know what they say.... there is always one......

:rolleyes:

Gibbo · 22 Mar 2007 at 08:39

trojan698 said:
I seem to remember a post stating OcUK wouldn't stock this rubbish!

Officially were not, this is just a one of kit, we get a lot of money for just displaying it on our website for AMD. We have one kit in stock as we believe they will be very poor seller and I personally would not recommend anybody buys one of these kits. Go Intel!!

NathanE · 22 Mar 2007 at 09:09

Gibbo said:
Officially were not, this is just a one of kit, we get a lot of money for just displaying it on our website for AMD. We have one kit in stock as we believe they will be very poor seller and I personally would not recommend anybody buys one of these kits. Go Intel!!

OcUK are such fanboys!

Datamonkey · 22 Mar 2007 at 09:19

Gibbo said:
Officially were not, this is just a one of kit, we get a lot of money for just displaying it on our website for AMD. We have one kit in stock as we believe they will be very poor seller and I personally would not recommend anybody buys one of these kits. Go Intel!!

I love an honest shop, dont come across many. but its why i keep 90% of my IT business with you guys.

Hen_Dawg · 22 Mar 2007 at 09:19

It is a piece of kit only for the die-hard (stupid) AMD fanboy

Jabbs · 22 Mar 2007 at 09:30

Maybe Gashman will buy it he looks like a typical amd fanboy

and you will find a c2d 6300 stock is in the same performance band as a 4200/4600 x2 btw.

NathanE · 22 Mar 2007 at 11:21

Yes it's almost as though OcUK have stocked this in anticipation of Gashman buying it

Strider · 22 Mar 2007 at 12:06

My apologies for the Borrowing of the thread, does anyone know a specific date on when Barcelona is due out? I heard it was end of May, this would make such an ace Birthday Present if its out on the 25/05/85

I like the idea AMD are trying to combat Intel with 4x4's, its a shame they're so expensive. I've read they produce more heat than a Oc'd Q6600.

Toyota_Mr2 · 22 Mar 2007 at 12:11

Strider said:
My apologies for the Borrowing of the thread, does anyone know a specific date on when Barcelona is due out? I heard it was end of May, this would make such an ace Birthday Present if its out on the 25/05/85

I like the idea AMD are trying to combat Intel with 4x4's, its a shame they're so expensive. I've read they produce more heat than a Oc'd Q6600.

If it is out on the 25/05/85.

LMAO. lol So it has been out 22 years. tut tut amd using old technology.

I know what you mean though

easyrider · 22 Mar 2007 at 12:16

LOL @ AMD

Strider · 22 Mar 2007 at 12:20

Strider said:
My apologies for the Borrowing of the thread, does anyone know a specific date on when Barcelona is due out? I heard it was end of May, this would make such an ace Birthday Present if its out on the 25/05/85

I like the idea AMD are trying to combat Intel with 4x4's, its a shame they're so expensive. I've read they produce more heat than a Oc'd Q6600.

This is what I get for posting whilst I'm supposed to be working

The reason why I wrote it is because I'm really a guy out of time, I invented a time machine to give AMD the heads up (maybe I'm just digging a hole here)

Anyone know a date for Barcelona?

Hen_Dawg · 22 Mar 2007 at 13:09

There's no official release date for it

Scoobie Dave · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:13

At £822.49 inc VAT you must need your head testing if your gonna buy one of those.

steve258 · 22 Mar 2007 at 15:20

If you also consider that you need 2x 2Gb dual channel kits for it to run properly then it's well over £1G just for the mobo, cpu and RAM alone... you can have a killer rig with 8800GTX with that kinda money.

Strider · 22 Mar 2007 at 16:31

steve258 said:
If you also consider that you need 2x 2Gb dual channel kits for it to run properly then it's well over £1G just for the mobo, cpu and RAM alone... you can have a killer rig with 8800GTX with that kinda money.

My new rigs mainly for Rendering in Studio max;
Antec 900, Q6600, 2 GB 1 Ghz Ram (still making my mind up about the dominator), 3x 36.7 gb WD Raptors (Raid 0), 256mb 7800Gtx, SATA2 500gb Maxtor Diamond Max. 2x IDE Dvd-rw

Before now I rendered my 3d project on my 3500+ machine, and it took 13 hours, with 6 extra 90mm fans blowing inside the case to cool the machine down.

You're spot on, it does cost £1k (at the moment), I've got most of the above parts, I just need the mobo, Cpu and memory.

Other than additional memory size, what's the difference having a computer with 4 gb of ram? (other than when I do use more than 2 gb, it won't use a swap file)

steve258 · 22 Mar 2007 at 17:00

Well 4Gb of mem also means you may need to occupy all 4 RAM slots which puts more stress on the mem controller which may hold you back when you overclock. If you don't overclock then having 4 sticks of RAM shouldn't be much of a problem at all, provided that you have 4 identical sticks.

There are 2x2Gb kit out there but they are stupidly expensive at the moment.