AMD's Launches Budget Processor Refresh

#1 27th January 2010, 02:22 AM

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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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this is good news for AMD

forkbomb · #2 27th January 2010, 12:04 PM

Any plans to make a competitor to the Intel Atom?

droidhacker · #3 27th January 2010, 04:42 PM

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Originally Posted by tjvanwyk

Any plans to make a competitor to the Intel Atom?

Now THAT would be nice....
Intel is a real pain... with that PSB crap I wish they would die!

Gaurav Prabhu · #4 27th January 2010, 05:09 PM

Not to forget, Intel needs to push in good IGP support.

Jake · #5 28th January 2010, 12:46 PM

Good for some people I guess, but to be honest, everyone is pretty much now "Don't get AMD their slower than a slug, whatever you do, never buy them" .

They forget that there was a time where, AMD were incredibly faster than Intel, and Intel were the ones trying to catch up.

I still stick to AMD though. But Personally, I'm waiting for the six-core desktop CPU's :-)

kona0197 · #6 29th January 2010, 12:51 AM

i7 has six cores. All hyperthreaded.

#7 29th January 2010, 12:57 AM

think he'd prefer AMD than intel though an i dont think AMD have a 6 core CPU atm

kona0197 · #8 29th January 2010, 01:14 AM

They will next year with the Bulldozer CPUs.

#9 29th January 2010, 02:27 AM

FOUND SOME INFO ON THOSE http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/dis...s_to_2011.html

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http://www.tomshardware.com/news/AMD...ochi,7201.html

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Jake · #10 29th January 2010, 01:23 PM

From what I heard i7's six/eight core CPU's are in fact quad cores, with two/four virtual cores, eg not physical cores.

The six-cores I'm referring to are the AMD "Thubans" (Google it if you don't know them)

Also have you seen the price for one of the "top" i7 models?

I think I'll wait out for a better price/performance from AMD

Gaurav Prabhu · #11 29th January 2010, 05:15 PM

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Originally Posted by kona0197

i7 has six cores. All hyperthreaded.

i7 doesn't has 6 cores but only 4. It is the Core i9 which will feature 6 cores.

trekkie690 · #12 29th January 2010, 05:31 PM

im still and AMD/ATI guy. but they have been slacking in the last 2 years. usually they are at par or better then intel. but i guess each company goes through its phases.

kona0197 · #13 29th January 2010, 08:05 PM

ATI has always given me issues with drivers.

mndar · #14 1st February 2010, 07:12 PM

If you are on a budget and don't want to invest in a graphics card, the AMD/ATI combo turns out pretty nice.
But I really wish ATI had drivers as good as Nvidia's.

droidhacker · #15 3rd February 2010, 05:43 PM

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Originally Posted by mndar

If you are on a budget and don't want to invest in a graphics card, the AMD/ATI combo turns out pretty nice.
But I really wish ATI had drivers as good as Nvidia's.

Nvidia doesn't HAVE drivers. All they have is a disfunctional blob.
AMD *does*, and they work VERY well.
If you want 3d in your R600/700, just "yum install mesa-dri-drivers-experimental".