| Soleron said: They no longer have competition on the high-end. What did you expect? Intel have been doing arbitrary artificial feature removal for some time. CPU instruction support randomly on and off by model number, crippling PCIe on Atom chipsets to disable discrete graphics, turning off cache or Turbo or HT even if the functionality on the chip would work fine, and so on. |
I agree...intel has been at this for a while.
But to present a different perspective...while they have no competition in the ubber high end in terms of setting records and synthetic benchamrks, I would argue that AMD still offers a good "high end" platform for gamers.
To be honest, if I had a non "Z" Intel board and Haswell, and intel pulled this shit, I'd immediatly sell it and go AMD. Overclocking the FX 8350 and making it stable at 4.8 Ghz has been one of the most enjoyable things about owining a PC in recent memory. The fact that the end result are not as good as Intels chips doesn't even matter...
Overclocking a 3570k I previously had was beyond boring and artificially limited, not to mention unnecessary. All games and benchamrks ran fine at stock and continued to run fine at 4.5 Ghz. Where on the AMD side, overclocking was like a massive riddle that includes balancing the NB, RAM, CPU multiplier, voltages, heat... I feel that if I still worked on it, I could get it higher...and overclocking really matters when it comes to in game performance.
