Gillbot
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So why doesn't Mom deserve an i7???
For facebook and freecell? NO!
Plus i'm trying to get her a laptop for free. Mom needs to keep her money for better things.
So why doesn't Mom deserve an i7???
That's my board as well, great to know Thuban is a possibility. My C3 965 is still brand new (a month old), so I won't likely be jumping to a new chip anytime soon. But maybe after a year, in case Bulldozer is really still 2 years away from now. Then again, by that time of Bulldozer, I may have switched to Intel since I'll be needing a whole new platform anyway (no more mobo and DDR2 RAM reuse, I mean)Gigabyte 785g AM2+ -- BIOS F8 for Thubans ...
Hmmm... perhaps Gillbot's mom is content with just e-mail, web-surfing, viewing photos and simlar "casual user" type of things?So why doesn't Mom deserve an i7???
Hmmm... perhaps Gillbot's mom is content with just e-mail, web-surfing, viewing photos and simlar "casual user" type of things?
Not that I'd force my mom to not buy an i7 920 if she had her heart set on it, but given that it has been 25+ years since she last had work as a systems analyst (i.e., I know a little better than her right now), I would also strongly encourage her to get a far cheaper machine, maybe a C2D or Athlon II or whatever other great deal can be readily found. All she does are the same things I mentioned earlier, mostly surf the web about "Brangelina" and some such news materials.
For facebook and freecell? NO!
Plus i'm trying to get her a laptop for free. Mom needs to keep her money for better things.
I went to Portugal (Europe), Emirate Arab United (Asia) and South Africa (duh) last year and was shocked with the prices in those countries. US is king when it comes to buying electronics.
It should, as the previously mentioned Gigabyte AM2+ board has shown. Whether specific board models will get the needed BIOS update is up to the manufacturer.hopefully this new hexa-core cpu will work with AM2+ motherboards after a BIOS update.
hopefully this new hexa-core cpu will work with AM2+ motherboards after a BIOS update. I have a Biostar TA790GX A2+ motherboard, according to their USA site. They haven't release a new BIOS for this motherboard since August 04, 2009
I'm thinking AM3 only as well.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...for_Six_Core_AMD_Phenom_II_X6_Processors.html
Sorry to hear about that. In my experience, MSI and Gigabyte were both excellent in providing BIOS updates, even for their low-end boards. Can't talk about other brands, I have only ever bought either MSI or Gigabyte due to pricing and availability here.BIOSTAR has just gone lazy on us, no BIOS update since Athlon II launched and lack of C3 stepping processor support for my particular board.
I'm thinking AM3 only as well.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/di...for_Six_Core_AMD_Phenom_II_X6_Processors.html
That says 6 core opteron though? Anyways are those results supposed to be good or bad? To me it looks like one 6 core CPU would compete with a 2.8GHz 4 core i7.
$199 for a six core CPU at 2.8GHZ? $295 for 3.2Ghz? DDR2 support for people with DDR2 ram?
Damn, that's pretty good. That's a cheap upgrade. It will sell at those prices.
i wish that was true but its never the story over here, i remember when the i7 920 came out they cost about £240 and i don't know the story in the US but i am assuming they were about $300, so we never get the exact price exchange plus the pound has really taken a beating i know for fact its not at that exchange rate any more
1 British pound = 1.50900 U.S. dollars
its 4 CPU's
4 6 cores.
And that opteron has 3 x more physical cores then that i7 @ near same clock.
So yeah id hope it would beat it otherwise AMD would be in big trouble.
Results... they look decient... not great... and not bad either.
It definitely scales better by looking at it against an older operton on that chart.
http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=23027
just speculation, but at $300 who can say no, but I am over here in the UK so could be about £250 sweet
I don't see DDR2 support anywhere.
Huh???