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What is AMD going to do...

Amp34 said:
So they are doing a cut price, mainstream (for the public) version. To be honest its not exactly the breakthrough AMD need to combat conroe.
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I couldnt agree more - I was just stating the differences is all
 
Angilion said:
A new type of motherboard needed just weeks after the last motherboard change, plus the cost of two dual-core CPUs and at least 4 sticks of memory (dual channels for each CPU)...all to compete with a Core 2-based system that will be hundreds of pounds cheaper. It might be far more powerful on paper, but in practice very little will effectively use 4 cores. It's marchitecture.
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well, this is designed for top end, people who buy fx's not for avg. people like most on this forum, who cant afford/dont want to buy things like that.
And if the reverse Ht works or if multi threaded stuff comes out faster, then this could be a good stop gap.
 
Angilion said:
A new type of motherboard needed just weeks after the last motherboard change, plus the cost of two dual-core CPUs and at least 4 sticks of memory (dual channels for each CPU)...all to compete with a Core 2-based system that will be hundreds of pounds cheaper. It might be far more powerful on paper, but in practice very little will effectively use 4 cores. It's marchitecture.
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Also think you are being a little unfair - it doesnt say its AM2 to start with ( it might ONLY be AM2 but it doesnt say either way) so it could be s939, in which case yes you would need a new board, but it coudl be a decent upgrade from a singe s939 dual core, and you wouldnt necessarily need new ram, you could already have 2*1Gb and have 1Gb per cpu and loose what 5% performance i beleive it usually is by running single channel

I am not argueing however on how little currently uses 4 cores
 
AMD have had the top spot for a while now, it only make sense that Intel would take over eventually. I have said this before, and it shall be said again: Just like ATi and nVidia, AMD and Intel are going to be leap-frogging until the end of time or until the end of the competition - whichever comes first.

SiriusB
 
Spit said:
What is AMD going to do...
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With special pods for "from orbit" and "With fire" capability.

It's the only way this can end. Either that or buy a graphics card company, but we all know that'll never happen right...
 
Zefan said:
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With special pods for "from orbit" and "With fire" capability.

It's the only way this can end. Either that or buy a graphics card company, but we all know that'll never happen right...
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I would love an Apache :D Be so useful sorting out road rage... :D

SiriusB
 
amd has a good plan if the dual socket mobo they bring out will allow the use of 2 quad core processors giving 8 cores in total. would be a cheap method of building a server though.
 
Cyber-Mav said:
amd has a good plan if the dual socket mobo they bring out will allow the use of 2 quad core processors giving 8 cores in total. would be a cheap method of building a server though.
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The Photoshop & rendering power... must have... drool...

/looks for hammer to smash piggy-bank...
/realises he's a few quid short
/looks for Mossberg to raid Natwests piggybank;)
 
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