News - AMD announces CPU cashback programme

[5teviewonders]

They should start making processors with competitive performance. That'd give some incentive to buy.

[watercooled]

So...their last gen APUs still massively outperforming Intel's latest in terms of graphics performance isn't competitive? Last time I checked, more people played games/media than running benchmarls for the heck of it or transcoding videos in software 24/7. Intel>AMD trolling, or any pointless one-liner trolling for that matter, is boring...

[Jimbo75]

if amd wanna see their CPUs flying off the shelves, they should make equivalent or better performing, cooler, more energy and power efficient processors than Intel and sell those at equivalent prices or even cheaper than Intel products. period. these gimmicks are useless.

I guess they should also get them delivered by naked chicks jumping out of cakes just to make sure. Maybe replace the copper with gold while they are at it?

[Medallish]

Can an A series give you better performance than an Athlon X2 with 4200 IGP or even paired with a budget graphics card even in an HTPC situation.

Depends on which A series you go with, but it being 32nm and your Athlon X2 most likely being a 65nm(Unless it's Athlon II X2, then it's 45), the cheapest A4 APU should provide about the same performance while using considerable less power, if you went for an A6 or A8 Llano, you'd get a lot more performance especially in graphics compared to the 4200IGP, even more importantly is that you can buy a 6670, or below, and run Hybrid Crossfire which will boost your performance significantly.

if amd wanna see their CPUs flying off the shelves, they should make equivalent or better performing, cooler, more energy and power efficient processors than Intel and sell those at equivalent prices or even cheaper than Intel products. period. these gimmicks are useless.

Oh just that, gee and all this time they thought the way to success was worse products, less green, and less power efficient, if only they had known!

Btw. the FX series don't really get that hot unless you OC them, same with power, BD is a surprisingly power efficient architecture, but as usual people forget the real numbers and just remember the numbers that stands out, in this case the OC numbers, is it ideal that it gets like that when OC'ed? Of course not, but for people who just want a gaming CPU without overclocking it, Intel AMD, neither will make a damn difference.

[petercook7]

Why not just reduce the selling price than have all this rebate / cashback bs ?

because they hope that 50% of people don't apply for it.

[AGTDenton]

made the jump to phenom 1 when they launched - never again making that mistake.....

Yeah I have a Phenom standing idle. I went with the "Spider" gaming platform, what a joke, like you never ever again! Time for eBay....

[dangel]

So...their last gen APUs still massively outperforming Intel's latest in terms of graphics performance isn't competitive? Last time I checked, more people played games/media than running benchmarls for the heck of it or transcoding videos in software 24/7. Intel>AMD trolling, or any pointless one-liner trolling for that matter, is boring...

Agreed. People do forget that the mass market isn't high end and that AMD can be very compelling outside of it. My A8 system (below) impressed me from day one and runs both cool and quiet.

[Bagpuss]

Epic win.

I bought an AMD FX4170 for £85 last week. And now I can get an extra £10 off. For £75 that is amazing.

Lol..i dont see how paying £75 for a hot running, power thirsty dual core CPU masquerading as a Quad Core CPU with worse performance than the Phenom II's they replaced is an 'Epic win'.

[badass]

Lol..i dont see how paying £75 for a hot running, power thirsty dual core CPU masquerading as a Quad Core CPU with worse performance than the Phenom II's they replaced is an 'Epic win'.

Hardly constructive. Reported.