THey would have responded by hiking up the Sandy Bridge prices.
Just remember, next time, all this utter bull-feces we've been fed the past year from certain people, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me.
Thread after thread, months worth, all bull-feces. Remember this the next time we see people walking like a duck and quacking like a duck. If you don't, shame on you that second time around.
Just remember, next time, all this utter bull-feces we've been fed the past year from certain people, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me.
Thread after thread, months worth, all bull-feces. Remember this the next time we see people walking like a duck and quacking like a duck. If you don't, shame on you that second time around.
Just remember, next time, all this utter bull-feces we've been fed the past year from certain people, fool me once shame on you, fool me twice and shame on me.
Thread after thread, months worth, all bull-feces. Remember this the next time we see people walking like a duck and quacking like a duck. If you don't, shame on you that second time around.
No one said you had to do anything.
The post was in response to someone who called people who don't buy intel because of their business practices pathetic, which is weird, because we're talking about pieces of silicon here, whereas, in the case of the people lex was referring to, it goes beyond the actual product, all the way up to economical and legal mischief. Or supposed mischief, so as to not offend anybody.
My second point was about the fact that you should feel glad that OTHER people are helping out the underdog, which may lead to fiercer competition, not that YOU, or anybody who didn't buy a bulldozer has to buy it, for any reason.
But this is just ideological nonsense. IF supporting the underdog results in more competition, then why does it matter if failure is rewarded? (in before 100 page political debate)
Again, IF.
Again, not YOU, specifically.
I'm wondering if "quiet period" for AMD will extend past the industry standard for this release, .
Just can't over-emphasize timing in the industry. BD was meant to come out and compete against Nehalem. If it did, it wouldn't have nearly the cool reception it has.
That being said,was anyone else pleasantly surprised about the Thuban 1100T in all these benchmarks we're seeing?
Hope someone posts results on a Gigabyte 990FX board.
I just read the HardwareHeaven review and the benchmarks were more favorable for the FX-8150 compared to the 2600k than the other reviews.
The difference?
They weren't using the AMD press kit ASUS CH5 motherboard.
Interesting...
There are two areas where the FX-8150 excells though, those are gaming and overclocking. In the former we saw the processor give us improved framerates over the Intel model. In the latter the ability to exceed 5GHz with ease offers additional value for money. In fact AMD have indicated that they expect most users to exceed 4.8GHz on air cooling.
Moving on to the 990FX Extreme4 we have another very impressive board from ASRock. It combined flawlessly with the new FX-8150 giving us great overclocking potential and stability from the moment we first turned the system on. Running DDR3-1866 was a simple process also and the overall package is enhanced by the extra features such as support for multiple GPUs, 3TB drives and a great BIOS GUI and update tool.
Why did AMD put so much L2 cache on the die anyway?
So the performance numbers are in, and it's not that great, and that's not such a big deal, about what I was expecting (actually pretty good for a chip that was due out three years ago.) The thing that has me scratching my head is the pricing. Apparently, AMD has taken everything that got them to this point and threw it out the window.
Does anyone remember why they bought their Athlon CPU? PERFORMANCE PER DOLLAR!
I was shocked when I looked this thing up and it is priced $60 HIGHER than the i5 2500k. I know a lower clocked chip is supposed to arrive in the $200 range, but that is still to high.
AMD needs to fix their pricing on these things if they want them to actually sell.
To help performance? Cache is a quick way to bump performance without having to rewrite the microcode...
I think Cyrix is ready for a comeback! Surely they are rested and ready!
Is that not why we're all disappointed?
No. We knew it wouldnt touch SNB for IPC or single threaded stuff. It sucks for multi threaded stuff. Not only does it suck it eats gobs of power doing it.
The Phenom II and Athlon II got plenty of support, and for good reason: they had good bang-for-buck and decent efficiency. After their success, AMD turns around and gives us a CPU that is inferior in single-threaded performance and a meager 15% better in multi-threaded than their previous. All this without taking into account K10.5 is, at heart, an architecture from 2003. IIRC, development on Bulldozer started in 2007. Four years in the making, and it's barely an improvement. How you manage to mess up something this bad, I don't know.
Supporting the underdogs in this case is to do exactly the opposite of what you should. As a consumer you should buy better products, or if they're similar, you could go as you say for the underdog (if you believe in that philosophy). AMD knows they made a massive mistake they're gonna have to rectify, similar to what they did with the Phenom. The Phenom was an unpopular chip, which pushed AMD to come out with a good chip on second try so they could win enthusiasts back again. If you simply support their failures they'll be laughing all the way to the bank, and why would they need to rectify the mistake if they're getting your money anyway?
If it's a good product, buy it. If it's not, go with the competition. Simple as that.