AMD Launches Budget Processor Refresh

MojoKid writes "AMD has again launched a bevy of new processors targeted squarely at budget-conscious consumers. Though Intel may be leading the market handily in the high-performance arena, AMD still provides a competitive offering from a price/performance perspective for the mainstream. HotHardware has a performance quick-take of the new 3.2GHz Phenom II X2 555 and 2.9GHz Athlon II X4 635. For $100 or less, bang for the buck with AMD is still relatively high."

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It's the hard drive stupid

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You know, 1 core, 2 cores, 3 cores, 1,000000 cores I have realize means exactly jack if the data they need to crunch is still sitting on frigen hard drive.

My processors and I would do flips and flops, if we could just get some dam data off our drives. Come on? We have basically not had a real leap in hardrive speeds or technology in how many years?

I mean solid states and all are great, but they still have a long way to go. What happens when we need to start pushing terabytes like megabytes?

We got a ram and catch arms race going on because, the hard drives suck and no one seems to be doing anything about it.

The best we can do are raid tricks to get any more performance (or reliability for that matter), and that has well known limits and problems.