The other day you was saying that AMD CPU's were already powerful enough, there was no need for anymore power, well a locked Xeon is faster than an overclocked AMD FX chip, so surely that is enough power as well?
Or do you change your mind every time you post?
Back on topic,
A Xeon 1230v2 gives i7 performance for i5 price, has no crappy IGPU and runs cool and quiet. Would be a nice upgrade @ £170 from what the OP has atm.
PS Andy, not everybody has to think exactly like you do
Sheesh, how on earth do I descramble and reply to such a load of twaddle?
Let me try. Firstly look up to your internet browser bar,paying close attention to the URL you are sat on. If you don't grasp that let me point it out for you. It says
www.overclockers.co.uk
So I will never, as long as I draw breath, condone buying a locked CPU. Now I'm going to ignore your little "My CPU is faster than yours" trap and move along.
So you paid £170 for your locked 3770 with no IGPU. Do you want to know what will EOL your CPU forcing you to buy another one? it's locked. That CPU would have held the ability to give you up to 40% or so more performance
if you could overclock it. But Intel decided to lock it, so I absolutely guarantee that one day your chip won't have the grunt it needs to satisfy your computing needs. Then you will have to replace it.
So the 3770k was £80 more or so. £80 for 40% extra performance is more than worth it. However, it isn't
really worth it because Intel are charging you £80 for air.
Now Intel have never really liked the fact that you could buy something from them and give it a shove for a free performance boost. In fact, Intel's problem has always been the word
free. They absolutely abhor giving anything away for free.
The Core 2 (I won't go back any further but I can tell you that even back in the Pentium days they used to lock chips, the work around was a pencil mod) was locked. There were both dual core, and quad core versions of the CPU that were unlocked. Intel charged around
a thousand pounds for this service. However, both of them were completely pointless as the means to overclock a Core 2 wasn't via the multiplier. It was down to the FSB.
With Sandybridge Intel made sure that no one was going to get anything for free.
AMD on the other hand? they've never really locked anything. They constantly leave easter eggs in their products (CPU cores you can unlock, GPU shaders that turn certain cards into their more expensive models) and so on.
So there. That's how I feel about locked CPUs and the dirty filthy corporation ethics behind it.
It sucks.
That extra performance isn't free you have paid for a non-locked chip. Given the performance of a 83** chip at stock who would buy one? I like how you make out that amd is some benevolent angelic company that gives things away for free. 