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AMD Undercuts Intel With Six-Core Phenom IIs
EconolineCrush writes "As Slashdot readers are no doubt aware, Intel's latest 'Gulftown' Core i7-980X is an absolute beast of a CPU. But its six cores don't come cheap; the 980X sells for over a grand, which is more than it would cost to build an entire system based on one of AMD's new six-core CPUs. The Phenom II X6 line starts at just $200 and includes a new Turbo capability that can opportunistically raise the clock speed of up to three cores when the others are idle. Although not as fast as the 980X, the new X6s are quick enough to offer compelling value versus even like-priced Intel CPUs. And the kicker: the X6s will work in a good number of older Socket AM2+ and AM3 motherboards with only a BIOS update."
Price/Performance of the i7's is actually quite decent.
AMD basically has a processor that has a high performance/price ratio for any budget. I will be loyal to AMD for quite some time. Im seriously considering tattooing AMD on myself.
That brings me to an interesting point, / . is just "the ramblings of socially-inept, technology-literate news-mongers".
includes a new Turbo capability that can opportunistically raise the clock speed
Does this mean I can get my turbo button back on my computer?
Flexible bare-metal recovery for Linux/UNIX
Waitaminute, Intel makes real CPUs? I thought they were overpriced motherboard CPU socket fillers used in shipping.
Microsoft has a cunning plan to deal with that ...
making it WAY more than good enough
I believe we programmers have the magic to make today's 32nm dual core to function like your old processor.
So why on earth are you even bothering to comment on this article? You clearly have no need for a top of the line system. Good for you! You're just like my mom! Does it make you feel superior to brag about your single core? Are you the computer ascetic of our generation?
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Thus resulting in a lower price on the new i7 MacBook Pro!
waiting... waiting...
Dear Slashdot: next time you want to mess with the site, add a rich-text editor for comments.
Come on though. Are not most of us guilty of testing Intel Chips?
Why is it so hard to only have politicians for a few years, then have them go away?
Even if you throw in multi-media, including voip and video, I doubt your average user will be able to use all that computing power
...but once you thow into the mix all the dozens of viruses, trojans, spywares and phising systems which the clueless user has collected by clicking open every single e-mail attachment, suddenly you realise that Average Joe's computer has even problems keeping up with simply sitting idle (and spitting tons of SPAM, coordinating DDNS attacks, etc) let alone have enough processing power to run even a browsing session in addition to the rest.
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I placed an order yesterday for a dual quad core xeon with 24gigs of memory and 10k rpm scsi drives. and that's just to tide me over until my real machine arrives (waiting on availablity of the 6 core systems - my project can't wait).
mind you i'm using this to model the process of extracting resources from about 1000sqr km of dirt.
If you mod me down, I will become more powerful than you can imagine....
Not *all* posts here on Slashdot are sarcastic, though I can see why you'd get confused.
Indeed. Some are ironic, right? right? ;)
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The key is the probability of a Toyota Yaris exploding while traveling at 100 mph? Wait, what were we talking about?