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I thought 90% of your performance yield came from the graphics card when folding. Assuming you have enough to feed the grahpics cards, is there really going to be any value to having the absolute top of the line CPU? :confused2
Gamers and general use demands must be expressed by others, as my requirements are somewhat singular.
Multithreaded CPU processing is king right now in Folding's molecular modeling simulations.
Leo, perhaps you remember the thread which was based on a folding rig? Well this is where it has taken me. So, I don't regard any of the above as a hijack but as a reasonable, and welcomed response, and opinion. We have similar interests in zambezi - is what it amounts to I believe.
And that's why I have such high hopes for Zambezi - to state again - multi-threaded performance. How well will the new AMD archicture function as compared to the Intel core/Hyperthreaded virtual core architecture? I haven't had this much interest in a new series of CPUs in years!
Edit: Oh, Tushon, you wrote "PPD/$" GPUs. Well, yes, within reason. If the $ part of the equation isn't too high and if power consumption isn't crazy.
8150 @ $230? I can't believe it. Something must be wrong with these chips.
Sorry this is just my first/gut reaction. I still want one though.
just announced i7-2700K
:wink:
"2700K" Humm, if it's only 100-200MHz faster than the 2600k, it's a big yawn from me. If it will overclock just as high or higher with less of a voltage boost, then :cool::D
But what's in an overclock w/o benchies right? I still say Zambezi is a mystery and Scooby is at the helm.
I care about the price of the 2600k lowering with the release of the 2700k :wink:
nice overclock, those guys are nuts
Seriously though, the days of shelling out about a grand for the top of the line chip are over, and it is a good thing for all of us. Chip fabrication has advanced so far in the past decade, it's almost unfathomable how far we have come. I actually read a little while back that the Athlon II quad core chips they were selling for around $100, they were actually turning a pretty good margin on those at that price, that's how good manufacturing has become over the past few years, they can run quad core chips, box them plop in a little heatsink and a sticker and still make a nice margin at $99. There has never been a better time to be a desktop PC enthusiast, we are building rigs we could barely dream of a few short years ago at a fraction of the cost.
I don't think a top of the line "enthusiast" "gamer" chip can garner more than $300 or so these days. There will always be the few that will pay anything for the fastest part, but when you look at the competitive nature of the market, and the reality that a very small number of desktop users that honestly require more power than they already have available to them, it honestly would not surprise me if AMD makes a smokin fast chip and sells it for around $230 a pop while turning a nice little margin on it because their fab is actually that efficient. Obviously, this is speculation based on speculation, but I think its at least as likely as "OMG Bulldozer is gonna blow if it's not priced through the roof!"
I can't wait to give Icrontic a big fat, "I told ya so!" :p
Really hope AMD has some magic in the works.
I've read other leaks that have it ripping Intel up on different benchmarks. It's all speculation until one of our boys gets his hands on it for testing.
that would be cool
Thrax old buddy, isn't it time to spill some beans yet?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_%28processor%29