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On Tue, May 29, 2012 at 4:30 AM, microcai <microcai@×××××××××××××.org> wrote: |
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> 2012/5/29 Michael Mol <mikemol@×××××.com> |
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>> I'm mostly looking forward to Bulldozer support and RDRAND. |
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> LOL I thought no one buys it |
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The average decent-quality AMD-supporting motherboard that supports |
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the level of contemporary features I want costs 100-130 USD, and I |
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generally go for a CPU in the range of $150-$180. So that's a total |
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ticket price of about $250-$310 USD. I've been using AMD machines in |
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my home for five or six years, now; generally, when one box gets |
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upgraded, parts of it (especially the CPU) get put into a different |
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box to upgrade that. That hasn't been possible on Intel. |
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An Intel-supporting motherboard with the level of contemporary |
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features I want becomes my first hurdle. Just for the base set of |
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features I'd want (6 current-speed SATA ports, max "supported" RAM of |
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32GB, LGA1155), I'm looking at $230 and up. For a processor? |
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$200-$320. And I'd want an i7, not an i5, so we're talking upper |
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range. |
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Yes, the early Bulldozers don't measure up to the Phenom II, but |
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amdfam10 is going away, and Bulldozer will get past that mark. Rather |
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similar how Intel's early NetBurst cores didn't manage to beat Pentium |
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IIIs, but later ones did. (Yeah, NetBurst eventually bit the dust, |
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and for good reason. I have to think, though, that a lot of what Intel |
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learned with NetBurst went into preparing them for Sandy Bridge's |
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incredible overclocking range.) |
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So, yeah, while I'd love a performance-grade Intel desktop box, it's |
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going to be hard to justify the price ticket. Even if I don't manage |
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to get an IvyBridge desktop box, I do want to get my hands on an |
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IvyBridge i3 motherboard; that RDRAND instruction is going to be sweet |
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in a network gateway machine, and the power consumption deliciously |
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low. |
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:wq |