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I'm a 2500K user, but I'm still interested. hopefully this turns out to be what bulldozer should have been all along. if its around 4Ghz stock it should be able to compete with the 2500K (stock)

watch AMD go **** it up though by over pricing it.
 
Do hope it's better than Bulldozer, I jumped ship from AMD to Intel.:(

But, the 2500K was a better buy at the time, would like to give AMD another chance, when they have something decent to offer.
 
I don't see that happening tbh. I reckon Intel is about 5 years ahead in R&D. AMD should compete with Intel in pricing for budget orientated chips. Intel left a huge gap in the market when the cheapest enthusiast chip is the 2500K. AMD should compete with everything below that for an affordable price and they'll get their market share back.

I'm a little worried after seeing Trinity has locked multipliers on everything but their 'K' SKUs too.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I have to admit...I would always like AMD make a come back and going shoulder to shoulder with Intel...or even beat them like back in the Athlon days...
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I think, secretly or otherwise, we're all hoping this to bring some competition back to the table. Intel, at present, have complete monopoly at the high end and so can do what they like with regards to price and to some extent, performance and when new products come out.

I am still happy with my Phenom at the moment and don't really have the money to upgrading in the near future but will certainly be keeping an eye out for advancements in architecture and where to put my money when the time comes :)
 
Hope it gives Intel SOME form of competition... but for that to happen it will have to be a really good chip (like two steps up IPC wise from Phenom to make up for the BD back track tbh) and overclock decently... if they overprice it they would have shot themselves in the foot quite literally.
 
Tea_Bag said:
I don't see that happening tbh. I reckon Intel is about 5 years ahead in R&D.
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I wouldn't say 5 years, but they do have 20x AMD's R&D budget so its only to be expected Intel to be way ahead :)


TBH Intel and AMD have headed off in different directions you can barely quantify them anymore, AMD have invested heavily in multi threaded while Intel have stuck to the throughput.

I'm interested in where llano/trinity will take AMD as its clear more and more applications are making use of GPU processing and this ties in nicely with where AMD are heading.

Its to early to say if Intel have missed a trick here but its certainly going to be interesting in the next few years.
 
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I hope AMD do it right this time. Competition is good.

I'm currently using Intel cpus but as a consumer I really want to see a strong AMD product line.
 
It probably will close the gap.

The performance of it will probably be around a Phenom II overclocked
to 4.0GHz or might even be a bit faster than that with any luck.
 
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