KennethChow

well I am talking primarily local. because best buy and future shop still have online stores. but in terms of local options one less future shop and best buy is more for ncix and memory xpress

http://www.vancouversun.com/touch/business/Future+Shop+five+Best+stores+closing/7900657/story.html?rel=828648 what does this mean for ncix? $$ destroy all the competition!

well their still up a significant amount haha.

down 20%,thoughts on blackberry failure?

my first system was athlon64 so I know. But things change. I'm talking as this is a growing problem. It might not necessarily mean Intel ups prices. but they can sure as hell can hamper the performance we get for the money.

Uh, not "always". Guess you weren't around for the Athlon days huh? Wait, what? I don't understand, everyone has plans to move to mobile, hell even Nvidia with their Nvidia Shield. Also, AMD has always been competitive, albeit in power or price. Athlon was about power and cheap, Phenom was great and cheap too. The FX line isn't even over, we still have Steamroller and Excavator. Uh, I guess Intel's Haswell isn't interesting to you, and (hopefully) Ivy Bridge-E will be coming out soon/announced. Wait, you say you are "forced" to buy "incremental technology" at a high price, but NO ONE is forcing you to buy Haswell. No one is forcing you to buy ANYTHING Intel. Also, if the technology is "incremental", then that is what? 5%-10% better performance? If Haswell has only incremental change compared to Ivy Bridge, then there is literally no point in buying it. Uh, I doubt Intel would waste their time by only changing the die size and making it smaller and also not improving performance. Why buy a LGA 1100 socket CPU when it's only a smaller die size and your LGA 1155 CPU performs the same? Intel LOSES money because no one is buying. Then we all lose, no one wins. It's more relevant to the last decade. AMD did put up a good fight though with the law suits and everything...If you look at AM3, the Black Edition is still very relevant. What I'm saying is that because AMD isn't putting out any pressure to manufacture something to compete with Intel, Intel also has no incentive to produce anything competitive. Therefore what you see now is AMD is aiming for a more budget enthusiast market rather than your more hardcore performance seekers. In an article in hardwarecanucks.com, AMD announced that they will be moving away from the competitive tier of desktop CPUs. If you understand what Monopoly Power is, then you would understand my concern. Desktop CPU market is shrinking at a very fast rate. Our CPUs no longer need to be upgraded from what use to be every 6 months on the corporate market to what is now 4-6 years. This is what burdens AMD. If they balls to the wall compete with Intel, they'd probably incur huge losses before even making a scratch on Intel. If you really think FX line can compete with the Intel i5's and i7's you're really wrong. Now I'm not saying that AMD is completely out of the picture just yet, but they're always going to be bullied into the low-priced and low performance bracket. If you have a 2600k like me, Haswell or Ivy-Bridge-E is not interesting at all. When I say forced, I was talking about everyone who wants to upgrade and the corporate market. Going back to the fact that AMD isn't being competitive enough, Intel no longer needs to push out anything ground shattering. And if you do have Ivy Bridge why would you upgrade anyway? Which is exactly what I'm saying that PC market is shrinking. Our day to day requirements of CPU processing power is lowering. We no longer to need to upgrade. And for those who need to buy / upgrade from much older generation platforms, they wouldn't buy older technology for the same price, therefore they would opt to buy the current technology. Learn some economics, watch the news. Intel isn't losing money. It's the consumers.

it doesn't work like that. Intel has just so much capital that they will just pressure you out of the industry like they did to Amd

well Intel has always bullied amd in the desktop cpu market. now that amd has been less competitive(withdrawal from enthusiast grade cpus) with plans to move to mobile, Intel has almost not pressure to release anything competitive on the market in terms of performance or price point. That means we as consumers are forced to buy incremental technology at a high price. means Intel saves money by making the processors more efficient and smaller so that they save money while in terms of performance, it's very marginal. so Intel wins and we lose. thoughts?

I'm not excited at all due to the fact that it is stilll a slim radiator there I think k something like a cooler master eisberg where you can turn it into a custom loop

I almost never download beta drivers unless it's really relevant to the game I'm playing.

honestly I wouldn't recommend anything. If I were you I would just save up a bit more money for something that doesn't depreciate so fast. any card in the 650 range is just really hard to justify its performance for that 130 you're spending it on.

I think rims interface has just aged too much. I mean more corporate companies switched over to apple so there goes a major chunk of market share.

hardwarecanucks. com

thoughts and feels? the thought of lenovo entering the smartphone market is kinda weird but who knows.

I hope something good but I really don't think anything substantial will be released. from what I heard from people that work in Consumer electronics, Investment and etc tell me it will be quite incremental. correct me if I'm wrong, I'll eat my words haha