Everybody knew that Bulldozer's performance wasn't top notch, in fact it could only just edge out the i5 2500k in some tests. But the thing is that due to Bulldozer not having that extra performance Intel have taken advantage of this, thus raising their prices because there is no real competition. Now in UK stores I have seen Intel CPUs go up in price by £5-£10, especially the unlockables cpus. The i5 2300 has gone up by £8 as well. There are quite a few stores where this happened as well.
That makes the i5 2320 the cheapest i5 you can get, at £140 with 3.0 Ghz. Thats why I'm buying it.
But how could Intel do this? Why would they raise their prices? For those people who saw the Overclock 3D review of the FX 8150, the reviewer said that "I wanted AMD to wipe the floor with Intel, because now Intel don't have much competition, they will raise their prices."
And if AMD doesn't step up their game with Piledriver, we COULD be in trouble. Intel might start selling crappy dual core pentiums for £150 if AMD does not improve. Okay, I exaggerated a bit there, but still.
So what do you think of this? I personally we should give some support to AMD because if we don't support the competition then bad things like this could happen.
I mean, the FX 8150, to be fair, is not a bad chip. In fact, due to most of its development being during Intel's first gen Quads, it could actually compete and even beat most if not all of Intel's first gen quads. But then, Sandy Bridge came.
But even then, Bulldozer would not of been so bad if AMD would not of set the bar goddamn high. If they would've said "Hey guys, we have the first eight core CPU. It is great for multi threaded applications!" then they wouldn't of been hated as much. But them saying "WE HAVE THE FIRST EIGHT CORE CPU AND IT PWNS INTEL EXTREME PROCESSOR AND IS WAY FASTER THAN ANYTHING INTEL HAS. BULLDOZER IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOU ITS BITCH. SUCK IT DOWN." really just ruined it for them and that is why it got drab reviews, as rightly stated by Elric Phares of motherboards.org
SO what do you think about this whole situation. Intel raising their prices, AMD overhyping Bulldozer etc. And by the way, AMD and Intel fanboys, I don't care what you are a fanboy of, but don't post here.
That makes the i5 2320 the cheapest i5 you can get, at £140 with 3.0 Ghz. Thats why I'm buying it.
But how could Intel do this? Why would they raise their prices? For those people who saw the Overclock 3D review of the FX 8150, the reviewer said that "I wanted AMD to wipe the floor with Intel, because now Intel don't have much competition, they will raise their prices."
And if AMD doesn't step up their game with Piledriver, we COULD be in trouble. Intel might start selling crappy dual core pentiums for £150 if AMD does not improve. Okay, I exaggerated a bit there, but still.
So what do you think of this? I personally we should give some support to AMD because if we don't support the competition then bad things like this could happen.
I mean, the FX 8150, to be fair, is not a bad chip. In fact, due to most of its development being during Intel's first gen Quads, it could actually compete and even beat most if not all of Intel's first gen quads. But then, Sandy Bridge came.
But even then, Bulldozer would not of been so bad if AMD would not of set the bar goddamn high. If they would've said "Hey guys, we have the first eight core CPU. It is great for multi threaded applications!" then they wouldn't of been hated as much. But them saying "WE HAVE THE FIRST EIGHT CORE CPU AND IT PWNS INTEL EXTREME PROCESSOR AND IS WAY FASTER THAN ANYTHING INTEL HAS. BULLDOZER IS ABOUT TO MAKE YOU ITS BITCH. SUCK IT DOWN." really just ruined it for them and that is why it got drab reviews, as rightly stated by Elric Phares of motherboards.org
SO what do you think about this whole situation. Intel raising their prices, AMD overhyping Bulldozer etc. And by the way, AMD and Intel fanboys, I don't care what you are a fanboy of, but don't post here.