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ragnarok95 · 25-05-2011, 11:30 PM

Ferolare wrote:

..because 2600k is so darn expensive >_<

need..competition..from..amd..to..bring..the..price..down.........hopefully >_<

Compare against current AMD high end 1100T, its about 100+ more only.

ivanlyf_2009 · 25-05-2011, 11:37 PM

Hey Ragnarok

Your points make sense. If BD is able to match Sandybridge or beat it, we can expect the same or more expensive prices.

However, if the price difference is not that drastic in the event of BD defeating the i7, I think BD would still be a better buy since the 990FX chipset offers 32 lanes of PCIe for the optimal crossfire/SLI?

My 2 cents hehz

BTW, did you trade off your 6970 Ragnarok or still holding to it =) I can trade a GTX 580 with you haha

ivanlyf_2009 · 25-05-2011, 11:39 PM

And while we're talking on BD Mark 1....

Anyone heard any rumors on BD Mark 2??

All I hope is that they offer PCIe 3.0 and native USB 3 like what Intel is doing with Sandybridge extreme and ivy bridge

ragnarok95 · 25-05-2011, 11:51 PM

ivanlyf_2009 wrote:

Hey Ragnarok

Your points make sense. If BD is able to match Sandybridge or beat it, we can expect the same or more expensive prices.

However, if the price difference is not that drastic in the event of BD defeating the i7, I think BD would still be a better buy since the 990FX chipset offers 32 lanes of PCIe for the optimal crossfire/SLI?

My 2 cents hehz

BTW, did you trade off your 6970 Ragnarok or still holding to it =) I can trade a GTX 580 with you haha

The thing is, can we commit to SLI or CFX?

A few of the members here can, but most can't. It's always good to consider more when buying, but sometime, there are just things we won't be using at all even though we think we will use! Hehe.

Haven trade... think i will just stick to HD6970...its still quite a powerful card.

How much u got your GTX580? So fast wanna change?

ragnarok95 · 25-05-2011, 11:52 PM

ivanlyf_2009 wrote:

And while we're talking on BD Mark 1....

Anyone heard any rumors on BD Mark 2??

All I hope is that they offer PCIe 3.0 and native USB 3 like what Intel is doing with Sandybridge extreme and ivy bridge

Hehe... bulldozer one haven come out... wait until out then talk abt 2 la...hahahah

People are already sian liao with bulldozer one!!

snipes14 · 25-05-2011, 11:56 PM

ragnarok95 wrote:

Hehe... bulldozer one haven come out... wait until out then talk abt 2 la...hahahah

People are already sian liao with bulldozer one!!

I feel like I'm being taken for a ride

ragnarok95 · 25-05-2011, 11:59 PM

Im quite confident 8130P will perform better than a 2600K. It has to.

ivanlyf_2009 · 26-05-2011, 12:22 AM

I got it at 700 SGD from a fellow HWZ forumer...

I just hope the card is worth the price. The guy said that he could clock it stably beyond the MSI GTX 580 lightning speeds without changing the voltage...

Nah, won't change so fast heh heh..

But want to change CPU by end next year

haylui · 26-05-2011, 04:38 AM

snipes14 wrote:

Definitely that's the minimum that I will go for, given my usage. But waiting for Computex see how, hopefully got some official benchmarks at least. If the performance delta vis-a-vis i7-2600K is significant (i.e. 20%), then I will wait for the hard launch. Else, go for i7-2600K.

But then like you said, if they are priced similarly then logically they will also perform similarly. I don't think AMD is running a charity to offer better performance for same price.

BTW haylui you just went EDMW on XS forum. Lol. I think they might be wondering what's the chili sauce you are talking about.

ya. no business will run charity for consumer.
they might be wonder why that was called a chili sauce ...lolz

techidiot · 26-05-2011, 05:01 AM

ivanlyf_2009 wrote:

Whether they're optimizing or still troubleshooting, it's been a long painful wait for all of us.

I went to buy a brand new Phenom II X6 bundle because I really cannot take it already...

Damn sian.... At this rate, AMD Bulldozer Enhanced will probably release at the same time as Ivy Bridge or its Extreme version...

To snipes 14...200% agree with you

Provided they don't delay again otherwise we will
be waiting for AMD Bulldozer Enhanced.

ov2rey · 26-05-2011, 08:34 AM

techidiot wrote:

Provided they don't delay again otherwise we will
be waiting for AMD Bulldozer Enhanced.

Quote:

AMD Bulldozer Retail Availability Postponed to Q3 2011 – Report

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s...t-202051.shtml

haylui · 26-05-2011, 09:57 AM

ov2rey wrote:

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-s...t-202051.shtml

why all the news are coming from mobo makers?

ragnarok95 · 26-05-2011, 10:00 AM

Cos cpu can only fit onto a mobo and nothing where else.

snipes14 · 26-05-2011, 10:32 AM

haylui wrote:

why all the news are coming from mobo makers?

I think of all the people in the world who would have engineering samples, motherboard makers would be the ones. To ensure compatibility and all that.

To keep things in perspective, the source of this "delay" is simply some people claiming that motherboard makers are claiming that their engineers do not have final production silicon.

Knowing AMD's ultra secrecy with Bulldozer (I bet the Manhattan project had less secrecy than Bulldozer), they probably did not want to give final production silicon because they know the motherboard makers are leaky as a sieve

Maybe this is me just being hopeful, but until AMD says otherwise we shouldn't assume that there will be a delay.