AND HERE COMES AMD....

[percydaman]

http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/pcs/amd-r...eon-194255.php

[Syclone1]

lol nice, but $2649 for 1 cpu? ouch

-dave

[EricCamper]

Yes....but why buy just one.....

[percydaman]

yeah i saw that price. I chocked it up to being first run price gouging...but that price seems excessive even then....

[Syclone1]

yeah i saw that price. I chocked it up to being first run price gouging...but that price seems excessive even then....

Yea I would have expected that from Intel but not AMD

-dave

[Da_elf]

whooo hoooo!!! i knew my boys would be back.

[cpnichols]

It seems to me that finally processors are getting a big jump in speed starting in the last year or so after a major slow down before that. I guess now the cost of that is price. I am also wondering if we are having a bit of "premature" release.

[EricCamper]

wouldn't this take care of the premature release problem

[Da_elf]

hahaha the return of the vraygra

[jujubee]

lol.

Give it a year and watch the prices tumble.

[Syclone1]

lol.

Give it a year and watch the prices tumble.

a year? try 3 to 6 months. in a year the quads will be out :P

-dave

[Da_elf]

lol.

Give it a year and watch the prices tumble.

a year? try 3 to 6 months. in a year the quads will be out :P

-dave

possibly they might put in some late nights and hit us with quads earlier hehhe.
i believe i just heard a collective groan on the wind. if i calculate the wind speed and direction and the exact time this press release was made i figure it came from the general vacinity of the intel headquarters. or it might have been from people who have indigestion from the McDonalds down the road from intels office.

[RErender]

Intel quad cores will be out first

[Da_elf]

and AMDs will be out better hehe

[RePlay]

I just hope we will see a rise in Dedicated Hardware Acceleration..
Eg ARTVPS etc.
Would be nice to have a node that processes Irr maps with the strength of 20 computers individually. OR even one that does final calculations.

I think this is the future anyway.. eg. the latest is a dedicated physics card for games.

No matter how much you try you cannot stay on top.

Its all mxr's fault anyway ;D

As a side note: now that Amd bought ATI, I believe there will be a few integrated designs where you buy a motherboard,CPU and gfx card in the one package.

Anyway who knows.. the industry is always full of surprises.

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- ciao