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Bulldozer v Sandy Bridge

I would say get what you can now and upgrade again if you want sometime in 2012.

By sometime in 2012 both AMD and Intel should have processors out with a big enough performance boost making them worth upgrading to from today's processors.
 
So will the high end ones be out in mid 2012? Might stick with my 965 until then. I'm more excited over Bulldozer since it'll be more balanced between the CPU and GPU bits.
I think Intel has the advantage over the 32nm process, seeing as some of their current range is already on the process.
 
the thing that interests me about this topic is how there are loads of 'leaked' pieces of information about Sandy Bridge and its performance gains, etc. but absolutely nothing about Bulldozer, only generic information about the architecture, would be foolish to assume that just because as it stands Intel are currently ahead in raw performance (not price) that the tables can't be quickly turned, remember Prescott vs. K8, who honestly expected that? ;)
 
Gashman said:
the thing that interests me about this topic is how there are loads of 'leaked' pieces of information about Sandy Bridge and its performance gains, etc. but absolutely nothing about Bulldozer, only generic information about the architecture, would be foolish to assume that just because as it stands Intel are currently ahead in raw performance (not price) that the tables can't be quickly turned, remember Prescott vs. K8, who honestly expected that? ;)
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But that was due to Intels own fault, getting caught with their pants down, thinking their pentium 4 could go further.
 
indeed it was, i don't think the same level of complacency has set in this time, they seem to be constantly trying to evolve their core architecture, only time will tell i guess :)
 
Oh great more of my time wasted explaining the difference in cpu's to completely tech clueless people thanks intel it's not like i don't have better things to do :(. But thats the case for everyone on here that builds systems for other people the time we have to spend overcoming the confusion of stupid naming schemes is enough in itself to turn you against certain companys. I have more or less decided i am going with amd next time round maybe they won't have the fatest but it has been so long since i had an amd cpu that having one to play with oc'ing and stuff will be more entertaining then another intel. Plus lets be honest it isn't as if anything will be out for general use\games that will push this next gen of cpu's so either brand makes no real difference.
 
RizlaKing said:
Plus lets be honest it isn't as if anything will be out for general use\games that will push this next gen of cpu's so either brand makes no real difference.
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Exactly my thoughts, you may be able to tell the difference in benchmarking, but not in the 'real world'.
 
Ryan-3 said:
But they'll be with Q's, X's and M's chucked in there too? And probably S's and K's like the last chips? ;)
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Q's, X's and M's are for mobile chips and we have that already

S's we have already, just not common, they are the low power desktop chips, and K's are chips with unlocked multipliers
 
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