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Are you that certain that Bulldozer will be better than Sandy Bridge-or almost as good, but cheaper, and preferably less power hungry than Phenom 2.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarthSWNT
I bought myself a Radeon HD 6870 last month. Other than that, my PC specs are the same as they were the last time I posted on this thread.
No, but i will decide when i have facts. The main issue, which is also clear in the phenom's before, is that having more cores does not make for more performance unless the app uses them. This is also why the 2600k et al seem as fast as the hexa-core 980 and 990s, which will whip the 2600K in 6-core apps.
Edit: Also, next weekend is the international release, so it is worth waiting to see... if you are looking at buying a pc. hold off just a little.
The Apps that use 6cores are very specialized and not many people use them let alone have them. For Gaming the 2600k is the best CPU that you can buy. No AMD CPU comes close.Quote:
Originally Posted by DarthSWNT
Edit: The Overclockability of the 2500k and 2600k are insane! The 2600k has seen overclocks to 5GHz from 3.4GHz. That will trump an overclocked 980x.
Thats what i said :P
Everything over quad-core are not performing as expected because there aren't enough apps/games/whatever that use the. Hence why AMD's hexacore is not outperforming anything even though theoretically it should.
That said, The bulldozer chip may be more of a multi-threaded-type vibe rather than a real 8-core. We just need to wait and see, and the wait isn't long.
mmmm my spec:
LG optimus 1
OS Android OS, v2.2 (Froyo), upgradable to v2.3
CPU 600 MHz ARM 11 processor, Adreno 200 GPU, Qualcomm MSM7227 chipset
:) i dont have pc but still want to be apart of your club... can i please... :D
At least! I was wondering when they would become available. Reviews should follow shortly after, eh?Quote:
Edit: Also, next weekend is the international release, so it is worth waiting to see... if you are looking at buying a pc. hold off just a little.
*At last.
Yes, I believe toms hardware may already have some and have been requested to wait on the benchmarks. not sure on the legitimacy of that, but i see AM3+ boards are also scheduled for release so something is going to happen soon.
I can believe that. They're probably just waiting for the embargo to be lifted.
*It does feel as if we have had to wait an age.
I'm not optimistic about it beating Sandy Bridge, but hope that it can come close while costing less.
That in itself would make it a worthwhile buy for me.
I have an Acer 7740G laptop
Core i5 540M
ATI 1 Gb mobile graphics card
17.3" screen
4Gb of 1066Mhz DDR3
640Gb HDD (being swapped out for a 250Gb SSD soon)
Ok ok my PC has someone stabilized for now so here it is:
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6gb mixed ram - 4gb transcend and 2gb corsair xms2 ddr2800.
Random am2+ asus board
950W EZ-Cool PSU
Sapphire HD5870v2
1.5tb of hdd space (meh)
P2770h
CM690 custom modded with watercooling - 1/2 Aquagate Max and 1/2 Koolance Exos-AL.
Crappy Microsoft keyboard and crappy a4tech mouse, and crappy Creative 2.1 speakers