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Keep it going AMD ]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
I've been itching to build an i7 PC lately, I may end up using the Black Edition of one of these instead.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
Yea man I definitely agree. I'm planning to buy some AMD stocks because I know they will catch up because their about to release their 8 cored processor probably in this 3rd Quarter. Keep it going AMD!]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
where's the typo in that cpu name? because i'm sure AMD has never made that processor...]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
I think he means a 955?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
Wow I'm dumb. Yeah its the 965 BE. IDK where I got 295.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 11:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/ well you've been quite informative but i guess you forgot to mention that intel invented the processor itself]]>Mar 23rd 2010 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
I'm just glad that the 6-core i7 has some competition. Without that Intel could charge an arm and a leg...]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:04PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/But seriously though, since the Phenom II X4 couldn't keep up with the quad core i7 it makes no sense to think that the six core version can compete with the six core i7.]]>Mar 23rd 2010 1:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:22PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 23rd 2010 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
It would be nice to be able to assign two cores to a game, one to my music player and the other to word docs etc. having the ability to do more than one thing at a time.

Yet Windows can only process 1 thing at a time, there's no real multitasking going on. Try copying two files at the same time and watch one copy while the other waits and that's with Windows 7 64bit and a quad core machine.

This is all a gimmick to sell chips!]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
Some people use other OS's and other high end software that needs these things.

The average consumer doesn't]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Have you tried setting processor affinity. Its been around since the Windows NT days.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/My computer was rendering frames from Cinema4D for 5 days straight for a 3d animation project. Intel Core2Quad 3.0ghz. Try doing that on a dual-core or less and see how long that takes.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/You're an idiot. Compared to your processor, your harddrive is a giant, slow, piece of crap. You're bottle-necked by your hdd here. As for Windows being able to process one thing at a time: LOL. ]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
lol]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Dude, file copy time is related to hard drive speed, not CPU power. Get a Western Digital Velociraptor, or even better, an SSD, and you'll see your copy time shrink significantly.

I have a Core i7 machine built for converting Blu-Rays to much smaller mkv files. Takes 4 hours to do, whereas my older Core 2 Duo would take a day or two! There are many applications that benefit from the extra cores. Music playing and document writing are definitely two applications that do not need all this extra horsepower. And most games... You just need a decent video card, but extra CPU might be helpful with some games.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 8:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 8:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
The Source engine, notably the one used in Team Fortress 2 has multiprocessor support.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Source_%28game_engine%29#Notable_technology]]>Mar 23rd 2010 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
If it's a new socket, and new chipset, I doubt it. But if it's using the same AM3 socket with the same chipset, then it should have memory addressing for DDR2. Besides supporting legacy/being cheap, I dont see why you'd want to run a bottlenecked DDR2 with a 6-core CPU. ]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 23rd 2010 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 23rd 2010 1:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
Performance/Gaming
- RAID array for system partition
- SSD for system partition
- 2 SSDs in RAID for system partition
- Big honkin' video card ~ $500
- Two high end video cards in Crossfire ($250+ each)
- $300 video card and 8+ NEW games
- 8GB more of RAM

Depending on the actual application, any one of these might close the performance gap between the Intel and AMD cpus when compared alone. Plus, you have other options to if you're not a gamer...

Multimedia
- Blu-Ray reader
- Blu-ray Burner
- Blu-ray reader + Blu-ray burner (both)
- 2 - 3 1TB HDDs + RAID 5 controller
- Multi-bay stand alone home server device (1TB+)
- $200 video card + 2 23" LCD Panels (@ $200 each)
- $200 video card + 27" - 32" HD TV (@ $500 - $600)

Misc
- $700 - $800 Laptop
- 2 netbooks (one for you, one for a friend)
- 1 netbook, 1 MID/android tablet, new smartphone
- New $500 digital camera + 32GB micro SDHC/CF card
- MS Windows 7 Ultimate + MS Office

Call me an AMD apologist if you must, but it's something to consider. We don't compute with the CPU alone, all the associated hardware (and the software as well) affects performance too. Intel undisputedly hits the highest numbers true enough, but personally, I don't think they are high enough to mitigate all these other potential uses for the money.

But that's just me...
]]>Mar 23rd 2010 4:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/" the 1005T at 2.8GHz" should be 1055T if i'm not mistaken.
]]>Mar 22nd 2010 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
If you know of a CPU, main board, video card, and system memory combination that can be had for $500 that will run BFBC2 or Crysis at 1080p on high settings at an average fps over 60 I'd like to know about it.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 8:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 4:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
DAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAYYYYUUUUUUUUUUMMMMMM

Even if you pretend 12 threads using HT on the Intel part is equivalent to 12 full cores, two of these is still less than half the price of one Intel sexa-core.

AMD is playing for keeps.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 4:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
HT is more like a 30-40% speed increase.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/
That's the best case increase, on average it is only about 10% increase for HT unless performance has gone up a ton since the i7 920 launch,]]>Mar 22nd 2010 6:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 5:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Mar 22nd 2010 5:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Apple uses Intel processors exclusively, yet you are against Apple?

I am confuse.]]>Mar 22nd 2010 8:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/http://www.engadget.com/2010/03/22/amd-six-core-cpu-prices-and-clock-speeds-unearthed/Thats like saying I love wheels but hate Corollas. Are you still confuse?]]>Mar 22nd 2010 9:23PM