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Crosshair V Formula-Z attempts to maintain the enthusiasm in AMD AM3+.
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Crosshair V Formula-Z attempts to maintain the enthusiasm in AMD AM3+.
I thought the AMD Bulldozer chips were released in mind for the Enthusiasts which will most likely be superseded by the new CPU layer this year. But one thing I have noticed is that they are focusing heavily on APU's which are annoying to and extent that when people use them for business applications not all of the RAM is available due to the APU stealing some if not a lot for its graphics.
I have to say I agree with your points. Yes the Bulldozer chips being advertised heavily as "A true 8-Core CPU" (Not quite true) come across as enthusiast chips, but it does also seem that AMD are starting to lean more heavily to the home/media pc market and are leaving the more hardcore fans a bit in the cold.
Dog this MBO looks crammed! :) It also looks very sexy and HQ. Nice work, Asus.
Yes, there's no reason to upgrade if you have a Phenom II based PC, since the newer AMD CPUs are just not so much more powerful to justify the upgrade. However, I have a feeling these new "Vishera" CPUs with "Piledriver" cores might be worth it. What bothers me is that AMD CPUs still use a little bit too much power, and when they finally release these new 32nm based CPUs in 2013 that could be really nice and worth an upgrade.
depends on how you look at it really, Bulldozer do have a few nice upgrades over Phenom II CPU's, like instruction sets and the ability to run 8 threads pretty well, but yeah I'm also sticking to my Phenom II 965 for the moment, I'm pretty sure I will upgrade to Vishera, unless something turns out to be completely wrong with it, but next year it will probably be time to retire my Phenom II, must admit it's still a solid CPU.Quote:
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I have the first Crosshair V, it's a really sweet board, although I must admit I've actually filled out every single Sata 6 port there is, and I'm using E-sata as well, so if I ended up having too much money I probably would consider this board, but atm I'm quite happy with the first one.
And the new price for this piece of kit will no doubt be heavily inflated. I personally like the Sabertooth 990FX, and only £135 ish
As someone who did make the leap from the Phenom II to Bulldozer I can vouch for you. The Bulldozer isn't bad. It provides a good solid performance increase from the Phenom II and some extra features, but that increase in performance does not justify the the $200 price tag for anyone who is looking to make the upgrade.Quote:
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Bring on the 900 series mATX motherboard's already! I know other people out there like high-end AMD chips (not a oxymoron I assure you) and small form factors computers, let us give you our money already ASUS.
Why so many USB ports on the MB... that's just insane considering the max amount of any USB econnections to a MB is between 7 and 8 at one time. Anything above this you starts to truggle slightly and the lag is dreadful.