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Value King? That's still Trinity.
Haswell was a disappointing upgrade to Ivy, but at least it only costs 4% more.
Richland is a similarly minor improvement to Trinity but costs 19% more.
(prices from Scan).
I'd imagine that the prices will settle down somewhat though in the short term
Yep it's too expensive at £115, they need to be nearer £100.
Don't suppose you've got a 6700 hiding in the back room have you hexus? Be nice to see that compared to the 5800k & i3 - should have very similar performance but be much more impresive on the power draw side of things... :)
I'm considering this rather than upgrading the ancient GPU in my son's C2D based PC.
I see the A4-4000 at Scan has now sold out, it was a quid cheaper than the SimCity that it comes bundled with sells for on Amazon :D
Thanks for the review. After seeing these results I might just keep my 2700k for another year.
I am shocked these aren't as popular as they should be, I have a C50 in my netbook and a A8-3870k in my htpc and both are perfect on value to performance.
They still need to make SOME profit thoughQuote:
Originally Posted by Jimbo75
I was building a lot of 5800K systems for customers but I won't be spending an extra £20 on these because they just aren't worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by ThermalDroid
Why would this cost any more to make than Trinity did?Quote:
Originally Posted by ThermalDroid
Well I guess it didn't design itself ;) Now there's no way of knowing if it cost more or less to design than Trinity, but the Trinity cost has already been paid.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willzzz
We need steamroller and escavator architecture, not buffed piledriver...
There is no way it cost anything like the development costs of Trinity, this is just a minor revision compared to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by kalniel
If Trinity managed to make back design costs priced at 20% less, then Richland can do the same.
Haha judging by AMD's accounts then they need to be charging even MORE to make profit...Quote:
Originally Posted by ThermalDroid
I look at these chips in hope that they are a significant upgrade to my 6! year old core 2 quad and the answer is no it performs about the same if not a bit slower!
Which is a bit of a problem for amd as most people these days will be upgrading from an existing system rather than buying there first pc and will be looking for a significant jump. Not so long ago even budget chips were a jump from any 3+ year old chip. But anyone that has a true quad (pre dozer) this is likely to be a downgrade.
Those that have existing dual core machines probably run a lot of single threaded apps (and there is a lot of those out there) and again this may end up being a downgrade as it's single thread performance is so laughable despite it's high clock speed.
Is it possible Hexus can review the Athlon II X4 760K?? It looks quite a decent budget offering especially for the budget overclocker!!
Hexus are going to review it as they mentioned this in the article!! :pQuote:
Originally Posted by scaryjim
I think you are missing the point of the APUs, if you want to beat your old core2 quad then get an 8350 for not too much more.Quote:
Originally Posted by keithwalton
Anyway the point is get an intel cpu + graphics card which performs as well and then look at the price...
These are great chips, ideal for budget builds and htpcs, they are not made to take the all out performance crown.
This is ideal for a HTPC and it allows a little gaming as well.
Can I squeeze one of these into a Shuttle SN95 chassis on a Zotac A55 mini-itx mobo?
Why use a NVidia card, e all knowwill be better with the intel cpu's, why not a radeon card, to xfire the apu's , then I think we wll see more performance, all I can say is intel bias