MS & Sony went to x86-x64 because pretty much the whole dev community asked them too. Because of development costs going through the roof.
x86-x64 is mature, they all understand it, and of course desktop PCs/portables.
So yeah we'll probably see new consoles launch around 2017-2018 that are...
Yeah, if you've had the card for several months.
There are plenty of people who recently bought the 780 at higher prices. Especially if you're in Australia like OP is.
I personally am waiting to see the after market models.
Even then will it be able to beat after market 290x models? Probably not if those cards have beefed up cooling & build quality for a little more head room.
I had typed a bit more about all of us knowing whose fault it is that won't happen. But I removed it because I didn't want to derail too much.
Rambus has some really great technology with XDR2 memory. But they're so toxic as a company that no one wants to deal with them. And it's a damn shame...
AMD's Mantle is being included in Frostbite so we'll probably see it in several games.
I'm more happy that GCN based APUs in desktops & laptops will be getting a nice boost from Mantle games.
We'll also probably see MS ramp up DirectX development. Remember Windows 8.1 is being given away for...
This has been quiet for a day but let me put it this way.
I already built one A6 APU box for a women who just wanted a system good enough to play some basic games, most of which are JAVA & Flash based. She loves it.
I'm going to build two more APU systems for my brother and sister. I'm...
Neither of the designs for PS34 or Xbone would work in a server to the point of needed almost a whole redesign.
Eventually I think we'll see 8-12-16 core Leopard clusters.
These could do well for AMD. In the past both Microsoft & Facebook were asking Intel for Atom clusters for use in their...
If your board can handle it I would also suggest the newer FX-6350 so no over clocking will be needed. Especially if you already have an after market cooler to use.
Save up a little more and get a 2GB 7850, this late in the cycle with new cards coming out she should really have 2GB or else she'll probably want to upgrade again in a year.
New consoles mean a new level of game engine performance.
I am aware of that, but like I said I'm not going to pay for XBL just to use streaming services.
I'm also hoping Sony updates the PS4 to support quad layer blu-ray since those are already in use in Japan. I'm not holding my breath for this feature.
I'm in MS's camp when it comes to services like Hotmail/Outlook.com/Skydrive. But I will not be buying an XBO if there is no free tier for online let alone using streaming services that I already pay for. I got rid of my 360 when it hit the RRoD and stuck with my launch 60GB PS3.
So I'll...
For the CPU side of the APU I would guess probably clock speed and the amount of cores.
For the GPU side I would say the amount of ALUs/ROPS/Stream processors. Basically how big they decide to make the GPU.
It's also a question if any of the desk stop models will use GDDR5 memory like the...
Except when the AMD chips do touch the i7s in higher threaded applications like video encoding, CAD work, & even some recent game engines.
Which comes back to the point that AMD chips are not as bad as a lot of people exclaim.
The frame rating issues does not affect single cards and there is already a driver fix for that.
The 7950 is the more powerful card and you can always sell the game bundle.
While several of you are bickering & baiting over the PS4 vs PC you're missing the best aspect of this new console. The PS4 and the Xbox 3rd gen are going to raise the minimum bar for across the board performance.
Having games being better coded for x64, multi-threading, and using plenty of...
Because CPUs make more money than GPUs. Eventually that IGP is going to get dated and a discrete card will be needed. Good thing they crossfire.
People buy more GPUs than CPUs so this wouldn't be a conflict or cannibalizing one product in favor of another.
The only thing I've noticed is that Newegg has a $10 off code that ends to day (24th) for the FX-6300.
It is tempting for me.
Edit, ok that puts it at the same price as Amazon. I think I'm going to have to earn some gift cards from Bing & Swagbucks to save some money on this.
Well now that AMD has moved onto GCN for everything tessellation is a moot point. Especially in the games where they tacked on an extreme tessellation almost as a tech demo IE Metro 2033.
Instead of updating his i7 system my cousin just built a xeon server in his basement for his heavy workload projects.
I think I'm going to do the same until we know more about Haswell & Broadwell.
The third party chips used in the motherboards for USB3 and sometimes for more SATA3 ports.
Have you used any of the P67, H67, or H61 motherboards over the long term?
The third party chips sets have lower performance and I have had more than a few driver issues. Not to mention my pre-B3...
The 2500k's IGP does not do OpenCL.
The 2500k does not have PCI-Express 3.0
These are two problems I face with my 2600k.
Add into that P67 & H6* motherboards having crappy chip sets.
AMD has already said they're going to use GDDR5 in more products.
I certainly don't think AMD will release a tablet loaded solely with GDDR5. But using GDDR5 just as the memory for the OS to use just for a performance boost would be interesting.
I think the difference is that AMD has a lot of options for the CPU cores with their own IP and experience that Nvidia flat out did not have.
I think we'll see ARM SOC from AMD consisting of ARM cores wrapped in AMD IP, AMD interconnect to a GCN based mobile IGP with GDDR5 mixed in.
That's...
Nvidia expected to get an x86 license out of Intel during their court case for Project Denver.
One of us made a comment in regards to the topic at hand, that person being me.
I understand why Nvidia went ARM, they had few options. The only problem is they're not going a good enough job.
I will believe it when I see it given Nvidia's track record.
Not to mention they'll have to compete with not only the big three arm vendors Apple, Samsung, & Qualcom but also Intel & AMD will have their low power chips in the race by then. That's not even including any ARM SOCs put out by AMD...
I have a Pentium 4 that I bought in '03 or '04 and I used it until Sandy Bridge came out.
It booted slow but was fine for web browsing and office use. I had also put a 4670 DDR3 in it towards the end there. It also had a Sound Blaster X-FI. So it could actually do web browsing and videos pretty...
AMD's APUs run OpenCL very well.
Keep in mind these are the older APUs already.
It's called cost. When it comes time to upgrade software and the video card if FirePro will do the job just as well if not better at the various price points why not? Only a serious fanboy would buy Nvidia...
Intel likes their 60% margin so its not going to happen. Nvidia also likes their higher margins so top tier cards would go back to at least $600.
Intel (Silvermont) & AMD (Kabini & Temash) both have chips that will work in tablet form factors and even phones.
Android works on x86 and Intel...
If this is for an HTPC then I would recommend an AMD APU. Just for the better video play back and features. Especially if its going to be used for Blu-ray.
Edit, seems I was a late by 1 minute. Good choice, my cousin has an A8 and loves it's video playback ability.
The AMD APUs support features that Intel's i3s and lower do not. Starting with hardware support for encryption.
The APU's IGP also actually runs compute/GPGPU functions in ways that Intel's do not. This makes them very useful for work environments.
The updated Richland APUs also have more...
H61 motherboards have horrid third party chips in them.
BF3 & BF4 both run very well on the Piledriver chip sets, especially BF4.
For his price range the FX-6300 is a fine chip over a probably abused 2400 with little OC potential.
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