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SnesTea on 11 October 2011

http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/processors/pages/fx-processor.aspx

Oh gosh. I'm jizzed in my pants just watching that. Who else is excited?!



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yum123 on 11 October 2011

lol thats duke nukems voice



Soleron on 11 October 2011

I'm not and I am a huge AMD fan. After five years of waiting for a new architecture it comes up short to Intel in every way.



ithis on 11 October 2011

What's with the Sony thing?



zarx on 11 October 2011

if it wasn't a new socket I would be



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Soleron on 11 October 2011
zarx said:
if it wasn't a new socket I would be


It will work in a lot of current motherboards, you need to see whether there is a BIOS update for yours.



PullusPardus on 11 October 2011

for CPUs , i'll stick with Intel, AMD is for GPUs



zarx on 11 October 2011
Soleron said:
zarx said:
if it wasn't a new socket I would be


It will work in a lot of current motherboards, you need to see whether there is a BIOS update for yours.


True but limits some functionality and is actually some not "a lot", some of which are big selling points of the acrchicture like new power management features and there are some issues arround power which could cause problems down the line. And to top it off AMD is not officially supporting using AM3 boards so it's down to the mobo manufacturer to make sure it works etc. High end boards may be ok but a mid to low end board like mine is unlikely to be updated and I am not looking to upgrade any time soon.



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Soleron on 11 October 2011
zarx said:
Soleron said:
zarx said:
if it wasn't a new socket I would be


It will work in a lot of current motherboards, you need to see whether there is a BIOS update for yours.


True but limits some functionality and is actually some not "a lot", some of which are big selling points of the acrchicture like new power management features and there are some issues arround power which could cause problems down the line. And to top it off AMD is not officially supporting using AM3 boards so it's down to the mobo manufacturer to make sure it works etc. High end boards may be ok but a mid to low end board like mine is unlikely to be updated and I am not looking to upgrade any time soon.

Link to where it's stated it limits features?

Otherwise yeah.



zarx on 11 October 2011
Soleron said:
zarx said:
Soleron said:
zarx said:
if it wasn't a new socket I would be


It will work in a lot of current motherboards, you need to see whether there is a BIOS update for yours.


True but limits some functionality and is actually some not "a lot", some of which are big selling points of the acrchicture like new power management features and there are some issues arround power which could cause problems down the line. And to top it off AMD is not officially supporting using AM3 boards so it's down to the mobo manufacturer to make sure it works etc. High end boards may be ok but a mid to low end board like mine is unlikely to be updated and I am not looking to upgrade any time soon.

Link to where it's stated it limits features?

Otherwise yeah.

can't remember where I read it but I was reading up a few days ago and that's what I read something about not having support for selectively turning off cores during use or something.



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