There is a reason why the i5 2500k competes with the 980 and 990x, the i5 was built from the ground up for gaming, the intel six core wasn't, and neither is the bulldozer. If its built for gaming or say editing can max a large differenceJames161324
i think that is too complicated for ebusiness to understand. he just thinks u put floppy disk into computer and press start. adding integer execution units into a bulldozer does not make it faster for gaming, but it does make it faster for server performance. durrr computers iz hard i think cpu made for computer program and games are computer program so having 8 cores going to make my video game super fast, not.
lets just wrap this up, bottom line, the TC budget is EXTREMELY limited considering he needs EVERYTHING to bundle under $600, I wouldn't be surprised if he came in here and also stated he needs mouse/keyboard and a monitor in that $600 as well. AMD no longer is king of low mid range budget CPUs, when intel released sandy bridges in january 2011. benchmarks show intel's cheaper sandy bridges can outperform more expensive AMD cpus, even their top of line 6-cores. so if someone is on EXTREMELY tight budget like TC, they should be directed to best performance/price system, and that would start with a sandy bridge cpu.
It's designed for running computer programs, games happen to be computer programs.eBusiness
different types of computer programs are coded differently than othersand operate differently. cpu designers create cpus to function more efficiently with certain types of programs. not all programs run the same in different cpu architectures. your oversimplistic view on how computers operate is elementary at best.
D. Why are you insulting blazn stating he's clueless?
Because he thinks Sandybridges cost an arm and a leg when some of them are actually cheaper than AMD p2 x4 x6 and the i3-2100 is cheaper than every single p2 x4 900 series chip and still outperforms them? i3-2100 $125 h61 motherboard $60 gskill 4gig 1333 $40 Asus DVD drive $17 ATX midtower case $25 550w PSU $20 hitachi 1TB hdd $55 Powercolor 6850 $150 Total: $492
wait are you guys talking about bulldozer in terms of gaming? because it isn't actually designed for gaming, never was, http://www.pcauthority.com.au/News/229879,amd-puts-its-chips-on-the-table.aspx it is targeted for threaded applications, but even though it will have higher floating point performance than current AMD products, until we know the pricing we will not know whether this increase will make it a better price/performance product than say the phenom ii x4 series. which makes us consider, intel's first gen i7 series Nehalem weren't designed for gaming either, it just so happened that they did pretty well in games, but you paid for that in the price. so if bulldozer ends up being AMD's version of Nehalem but at a steep price reduction, then it will do very well in games and have price/performance that may compete with sandybridge.
I see nothing in that message about a six-core CPU...
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that is because he is the one who went off topic, i was bringing the thread back on topic which was the OP considering buying a hex-core processor for gaming.
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