Needs to be way cheaper...as in below 2k. But these are probably orders that happened when the rand was weak against the dollar, so probably inflated a bit much as well...
Watch for reviews, you're in for some interesting suprises.
Watch for reviews, you're in for some interesting suprises.
So you guys recon a 1100T is the same as the new BD?
Will be interresting to see what happens when Sandy E hits. Hexacore and 15mb cache in top model able to turbo up to 3.9 without tweaking? Also the architechture of the new Sandy E mobo's looks quite promising with quad channel DDR and I think 40 PCI lanes?
Next question: How many of you can afford the platform? This will be an introduction to $400 motherboards. Combine a R4,500 motherboard with a R10,000 CPU, R2,000 for a quad channel kit of RAM... We're not far from R20k. Money much much MUCH better spent on even a rubbish card such as the GTX 590.
Anandtech said:The good news is AMD has a very aggressive roadmap ahead of itself; here's hoping it will be able to execute against it. We all need AMD to succeed. We've seen what happens without a strong AMD as a competitor. We get processors that are artificially limited and severe restrictions on overclocking, particularly at the value end of the segment. We're denied choice simply because there's no other alternative. I don't believe Bulldozer is a strong enough alternative to force Intel back into an ultra competitive mode, but we absolutely need it to be that. I have faith that AMD can pull it off, but there's still a lot of progress that needs to be made. AMD can't simply rely on its GPU architecture superiority to sell APUs; it needs to ramp on the x86 side as well—more specifically, AMD needs better single threaded performance. Bulldozer didn't deliver that, and I'm worried that Piledriver alone won't be enough. But if AMD can stick to a yearly cadence and execute well with each iteration, there's hope. It's no longer a question of whether AMD will return to the days of the Athlon 64, it simply must. Otherwise you can kiss choice goodbye.
100%
Seeing as an i5 2500k with a gtx 580 can run basically everything, an upgrade like this would not only be pointless, but pretty damn stupid.
Anyone who is happy is a fail fanboi...was hoping that BD would be the competition we as consumers needed...
I'm still gonna try it outWell you're talking to Mr AMD who is thoroughly disgusted
Well you're talking to Mr AMD who is thoroughly disgusted
Was thinking of multi screen setups where 2 or more gpu's are needed at higher res. Think gaming is moving in that direction where more gpu power will be needed for this purpose.