AMD FX-4130 CPU Could Finally Come to Market

[f4phantom2500]

[citation][nom]beoza[/nom]This could be a good thing since they have good performance in some applications. I'm going to be building PC's for my uncle and mother and they really don't need all the performance you get from an Intel chip. My mother mainly plays internet based games you'd expect to find on Facebook, and my uncle plays games like Runes of Magic. You don't need all the power of an i5 or I7. For my own build I'm using an i5 3570K, and AMD Radeon 7870, my uncle and mother's computers will have the cheaper FX 4100 and Radeon 7770 or 7750, all 3 of the computers I'm building will have 8GB of ram though. It's not just about the processing power of the chip you have to consider you also have to look at what the PC will be used for and a person's budget. If you don't play FPS games like CoD, BF, Crysis then you can get away with cheaper alternatives. I could have used cheaper components but I wanted to use more current hardware, that will last them longer.Some of the posters seem to forget that there are other people out there besides hard core gamers who just want a decent PC that fits their needs/budget and gets the job done.[/citation]

I'm pretty sure at least your mom could get by with an AMD APU.

 

[bluekoala]

I have a fx-4100 and I'm happy with it.
It blows my phenom 9500 (True quad core) out of the water and it cost half the price as it did.
I may buy another fx-4100 like CPU for my g/f's PC in the near future and donate that poor old phenom to my father is law.
Although I do wish it had a lower TDP, the computer room tends to get pretty hot.

 

[dawei]

[citation][nom]adgjlsfhk[/nom]If the pricing is about $120, which the article suggested, this new product would have to perform better than an FX-8150 to be at a comparable level to an I3 for gaming. (as shown by a recent toms hardware article.)http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 106-5.htmlI fully knowledge that productivity-wise, an FX-8150 would destroy an I3, but I mainly care about gaming, so for me this is worth nothing[/citation]

Using your logic, if an i3 is $120, it would have to beat an i7 to be at a comparable level to a 4130 in highly-threaded applications.

 

[danwat1234]

[citation][nom]captainblacko[/nom]if the price is right on them then i would like to be bulldozed[/citation]
That's what she said!