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ZEN SR7 Rumoured January 17th Release

maonayze

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Be nice to see amd with some competitive chips again, might end up snagging one if they are all that and overclock well. :)
 
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking? :p
 
mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking? :p
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Blame Intel?? :p
 
mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking? :p
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So they will need 8 cores to be pretty much the same as the 5820k give or take a little. Doesn't seem a whole lot better money/performance from what Intel already has out, though it should help with prices all round, eventually anyway.. Who knows with the weak pound atm.
 
mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking? :p
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They've been doing it since the days of the FX-51?
 
mmj_uk said:
So if I'm understanding it right the $300 SR7 is going to only compete with 6-core Broadwell-E (locked at ~3ghz probably?) and you're going to need to spend $500+ for the fully unlocked variant? what happened to AMD being the peoples' champion and not doing stuff like charging $200 for overclocking? :p
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I read it as all the chips will be overclockable, however they are going to continue with some binned Black Edition type chips that will OC a lot higher, im guessing the best of the silicon will get binned for these?

Anyhow from what ive been reading all of the chips are overclockable, just some will carry a premium as they will allow much better OC's
 
Why does everybody think these things will be $200.

The article that all these rumours have sprung from listed the prices FROM $200 for the cheapest and going up from their, the top notch 8 core 16 thread part is going to be an awful lot more than $200-300 in my opinion.
 
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