clearly some of you guys have not seen the benchmarks, in some cases there is a 30-40% increase over the Core 2 Quad X, clock to clock. I was about to rebuild my rig but now I am going to wait for these, and they are priced about the same as the current quads. The only problem they have so far is that you cannot use Enthusiust grade Ram, (ie any ram with a voltage higher then 1.6v) without risk of frying the cpu, I think this is due to the fact that the i7's dont technically have a FSB. Either way I hope AMD has somthing on the horizon because man.... intel is pwning them.
its the way the card is desinged, it used CrossfireX to control both cores, so each core acts as its own card ie (1 gb per core), dont worry you will still use both cores, but windows was never desinged to recognize two cores as one card. and No the 64bit version of xp, or vista will not show it any different.
Looks like a nice card, and Direct competition for the Geforce GTX280, but priced cheaper (about $500 canadian so far as I can find), heres the first review, I think we will see some crazy crossfire setups with this sucker
I have seen this issue with alot of gigabyte boards. As a rule of thumb for anyone building a new system flash your bios before you do anything else, The Asus board I just bought (rampage formula x48 ) had 3 updates since the pre-installed bios on the board.
The e8400 is the better purchase, and with good cooling is very stable at 4ghz or more, and that is what I am doing at the moment. Dont pay $25 more for the 8500 there is NO point.
Now??? where have you been??, price/performance I dont think they have ever been far behind Nvidia imo. I love ATI's new batch the HD series is the best they have ever made, amazing cards, all of them.
At this point there is no reason not to use 64 bit, is it worth an upgrade from 32, imo yes it is, some memory hungry apps have major improvments in overall performance. Games will catch up, but the way games are desinged and the way they address memory is still not optomized for 64 bit. The only reason not to upgrade would be the fact that some (mostly usless in the long run) 3rd party apps will not run under 64 bit.
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