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Regenweald
September 17th, 2009, 09:40 PM
Is anyone else a fan of the ProcWars ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010340343%2050001028%201050749422&name=Athlon%20II%20X4

Firestem4
September 17th, 2009, 10:00 PM
Holy crap..the new Athlon X4.arg!!! only 20 dollars more expensive than the X2 250 i bought 2 months ago...=(

PurposeOfReason
September 17th, 2009, 10:10 PM
For prices it's great as it should drive intels new i5 down.

Regenweald
September 17th, 2009, 10:18 PM
Yup, who would think you'd ever see a spanking new intel for sub 200 ?http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215 @ firestem4, my condolences. That 6 month law has dropped to 6 weeks in recent times :P

Firestem4
September 17th, 2009, 10:24 PM
Yup, who would think you'd ever see a spanking new intel for sub 200 ?http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215 @ firestem4, my condolences. That 6 month law has dropped to 6 weeks in recent times :P

Lol, I'm disappointed that I didn't even know they would be releasing those models, but I probably still would have bought my Athlon II X2. (My motherboard was dead and I HAD to get rid of that damn pos Intel Pentium D...)

The Athlon II X2 250 is a great CPU though. And AMD is supposedly going to invest a lot of development for their AM3 socket which means my motherboard will be viable for a long time to come.

Skripka
September 17th, 2009, 10:31 PM
For prices it's great as it should drive intels new i5 down.

Meh, you're better off with a Core2Duo than an i5 according benchmarks...much better off.

PurposeOfReason
September 17th, 2009, 10:36 PM
Meh, you're better off with a Core2Duo than an i5 according benchmarks...much better off.
Link please, I haven't seen anything to back that.

Skripka
September 17th, 2009, 10:51 PM
Link please, I haven't seen anything to back that.

In some gaming tests, where the GPU is under stress and the CPU the least, older architecture CPUs beat the newer ones.

http://techreport.com/articles.x/17545/8

http://techreport.com/r.x/core-i5-i7/farcry2-scaling.gif

Whether or not it is an optimization problem or what have you I don't know. But something is screwy with Win7 or i5/i7 here.

Regenweald
September 18th, 2009, 12:29 AM
Whether or not it is an optimization problem or what have you I don't know. But something is screwy with Win7 or i5/i7 here.

yet another reason not to rush-buy.

sideaway
September 18th, 2009, 12:59 AM
I've always wanted to own another AMD. When there's a good reason to move on from my e8400. I will :)

PurposeOfReason
September 18th, 2009, 02:26 AM
I've always wanted to own another AMD. When there's a good reason to move on from my e8400. I will :)
You'll be good for a long time then. HDDs and video cards are the only things that need more juice these days and the later only for games.

sideaway
September 18th, 2009, 02:31 AM
Yeah, I'd figured that. Maybe the next generation of AMD quads will be my next. myaybe jump straight to the Intel 6cores.

doorknob60
September 18th, 2009, 02:35 AM
Oh my, that's cheap :D I want one now...

sloggerkhan
September 18th, 2009, 02:38 AM
I want a 50 watt or less quad core. Pretty please?

PurposeOfReason
September 18th, 2009, 02:40 AM
Yeah, I'd figured that. Maybe the next generation of AMD quads will be my next. myaybe jump straight to the Intel 6cores.
I went from duo, quad, to i7. I'm selling my i7 rig, sold the quad, and am moving back to duo. Quad wasn't big enough of a jump and i7 is overkill for what software can do at the moment. The 6 core beast is also going to cost 1k at launch. I'm waiting for software to catch up or money to start coming my way fast and hard.

Regenweald
September 18th, 2009, 03:00 AM
I went from duo, quad, to i7. I'm selling my i7 rig, sold the quad, and am moving back to duo. Quad wasn't big enough of a jump and i7 is overkill for what software can do at the moment. The 6 core beast is also going to cost 1k at launch. I'm waiting for software to catch up or money to start coming my way fast and hard.

i agree, what is the point of both companies creating more and more powerful physical architectures when all the software still boils back down to x86 and no real parallel processing power. Haiku is a good bet but something soild could be 2-4 years off :(

The only time we will see a switch to true power is when enterprise begins to buckle under the weight of information flow and someone steps up and says 'hey, we want true 64bit processing across the enterprise and will shell out dollars to do so' till then, backwards compatibility it is.

CharmyBee
September 18th, 2009, 04:08 AM
I care less about the charts. AMD-V on a dual core is the sweetest part of AMD for me. I'll stick to it no matter how many boxes of core i7 extremes avalanche on me

nathang1392
September 18th, 2009, 04:39 AM
what is the difference between an i7 and an i5? beside socket type.

Exodist
September 18th, 2009, 06:06 AM
Is anyone else a fan of the ProcWars ?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2010340343%2050001028%201050749422&name=Athlon%20II%20X4

HOLY MOLY! only 125bucks for the 2.8Ghz QuadCore X4!

I think I paid that for my 6000+ X2 about 2 years ago or less.

PurposeOfReason
September 18th, 2009, 06:13 AM
what is the difference between an i7 and an i5? beside socket type.
i7 and i5 are both socket 1156. The original i7 was 1366 and was hyperthreaded.