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*** AMD "Zen" thread (inc AM4/APU discussion) ***

N19h7m4r3 said:
Including AMD hopefully. I want them to do well again; and hope people actually buy RyZen instead of just going Intel because of their price cuts.
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They sold $1bn of notes @ $7 last year, whoever bought them are now rolling in it and AMD paid down 50% of their debt which now stands at $1bn with a $13bn Market cap, currently.

Not long ago AMD had a $4bn debt with a market cap of $2bn, AMD were on the brink at that point, they have done very well to get back to good health, now they just need to start earning healthy profits again for R&D to keep Intel and nVidia grounded.
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Including AMD hopefully. I want them to do well again; and hope people actually buy RyZen instead of just going Intel because of their price cuts.
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I will go with the best performance for my requirements (which tbh is emphasis on fast single-threads, but more cores is welcome if it's in addition to good ST). If that's delivered by AMD, then I'll buy AMD regardless of whether Intel have gotten cheaper :)
 
EvilFranky said:
Well my stock is worth a lot more in the last hour. Just gutted I didn't buy at $5 end of last year, really just not informed about the whole process to feel confident about investing. Live and learn.
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Irish brokers were the gate keepers to my entry; they're all bloody sharks. Horrifically high trading fees, maintenance fees, minimum cash reserve requirements and more.

I did end up buying early in the year though, but when I really wanted to get in; in early 2016 I didn't have the option to, and lacked too much knowledge on it all. If I put as much in then as I have now though...that 700% return would have been juicy.
Oh well, Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
:D
 
N19h7m4r3 said:
Irish brokers were the gate keepers to my entry; they're all bloody sharks. Horrifically high trading fees, maintenance fees, minimum cash reserve requirements and more.

I did end up buying early in the year though, but when I really wanted to get in; in early 2016 I didn't have the option to, and lacked too much knowledge on it all. If I put as much in then as I have now though...that 700% return would have been juicy.
Oh well, Hindsight is 20/20 after all.
:D
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Just one of those things, if I double my money I'll be ecstatic...can't dwell on the 'might have been'. Drive you insane.
 
EvilFranky said:
Well my stock is worth a lot more in the last hour. Just gutted I didn't buy at $5 end of last year, really just not informed about the whole process to feel confident about investing. Live and learn.
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I was going to buy before fury release :( but i am not a stock guy just feels as bad as gambling to me will be honest with you all i use to be an addict to it and took many years to rid out of my system.. so i find it hard now to do things like this without alarm bells... was recommanded by a friend to buy he did and as done very well thus far oh well ..

humbug said:
They sold $1bn of notes @ $7 last year, whoever bought them are now rolling in it and AMD paid down 50% of their debt which now stands at $1bn with a $13bn Market cap, currently.

Not long ago AMD had a $4bn debt with a market cap of $2bn, AMD were on the brink at that point, they have done very well to get back to good health, now they just need to start earning healthy profits again for R&D to keep Intel and nVidia grounded.
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Interesting thanks... i do wish AMD the best they deserve it ...so do we :)
 
I brought at $3.3 earlier last year but sold at $8 end of last year just before it all jumped up in price. Read a few pessimistic 'leaks' and lost my bottle!

As you say hindsight and still over doubled my money.
 
HeX said:
When you're gaming your CPU is often not running at 100% on all cores. That's usually reserved for stress tests, or rendering/encoding.
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Very true, just having a long day and assume they have done the 100% load on CPU with a bench/stress test that would load all cores 100%.

I would say then however that as we move towards more multi core/threaded games then we are likely to see power consumption overall increase and so the theoretical 100% gaming load of course would be the 130w of the CPU plus the 200w of the GPU (or whatever it is) so that is something maybe to consider for people who are buying power supplies for their systems at moment. It of course would still put the required PSU at around 500-600 watt which considering not long ago we was talking about 1000 watt plus for overclock wth sli/xfire systems.
 
Just checked my portfolio - comprises of 6.8% AMD shares - my manager is on the ball ;-)
 
So with release so close, have we actually determined what the 'X' stands for?

Bit odd to me to just tag it on the end of 1700 to just indicate a higher clock speed.
 
jrwagh333 said:
So with release so close, have we actually determined what the 'X' stands for?

Bit odd to me to just tag it on the end of 1700 to just indicate a higher clock speed.
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The Idea was the X is XFR... (Auto Overclock) like GPU boost 3 on nVidia cards, if the CPU has thermal and power headroom it will overclock itself, it will keep going until it reaches thermal or power limits, within reason, probably.....
So the 1800X base clock is 3.6Ghz - Turbo 4Ghz - XFR <

But, apparently the 1700 also boost like XFR, don't know where that came from but its what seems to be floating around.
 
humbug said:
The Idea was the X is XFR... (Auto Overclock) like GPU boost 3 on nVidia cards, if the CPU has thermal and power headroom it will overclock itself, it will keep going until it reaches thermal or power limits, within reason, probably.....
So the 1800X base clock is 3.6Ghz - Turbo 4Ghz - XFR <

But, apparently the 1700 also boost like XFR, don't know where that came from but its what seems to be floating around.
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gibbo has stated all the 7 series chips have XFR..
 
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