AMD's New CPU

[Garabaldi]

Originally Posted by Alpha_Lima

If you think about it, by that standard we should all quit any spending on gaming, give the savings to UNICEF, and just read books or something.

Captial idea!

Or we could all move in together, huddle for warmth, dance for entertainment, and devour the weakest member each week.

[A-10Warthog]

^^LIKE THE HIPPIES!

[Heliocentric]

i wont be "impressed" as a consumer until its in the shops running benchmarks on applications i am likely to use.

B*S hardware that costs them too much to make has been industry practice (when you dont have anything competitive to hold off sales) since the birth of the industry.

Stop talking about what you might have and show me what you have when you get it.

[Long Bow]

i wont be "impressed" as a consumer until its in the shops running benchmarks on applications i am likely to use.

B*S hardware that costs them too much to make has been industry practice (when you dont have anything competitive to hold off sales) since the birth of the industry.

Stop talking about what you might have and show me what you have when you get it.

^^^ That is what I was thinking as well. AMD has been touting there next gen chips but have had problems even getting the majority of them to break 2.0ghz. Hopefully AMD can get things back on track as I really like them and think the competition is great for consumers. But until I see some solid benchmarks I won't belive any of this. Plus the "days of $1000 CPU's is over" line scares me, do they think people will be more apt to spend $700-$800 on a cpu Still way to expensive IMO.

[[R-CON]ZZEZ]

When they say $1000 cpus they mean high-end cpus, top of the line - for people with money to burn.

[[R-DEV]Katarn]

Yeah, like the FX series processors which were like $950 - $1150 USD.

[M4nicMin3r]

Originally Posted by ZZEZ

When they say $1000 cpus they mean high-end cpus, top of the line - for people with money to burn.

LOL specially when in 3-6 months time itll be obsolete and the next new thing will be out. Then youll be able to pick up that $1000 cpu for $40.

[[R-MOD]dunehunter]

Yeah, I've just bought a new system, and for almost every part I've gone for the stuff that's not exactly top of the line, but close, which has saved me a lot of money.