AMD HYPE TRAIN

[gameboy3800]

11 hours ago, Castdeath97 said:

Just make bloody intel release unlocked CPUs below the 200 dollar price range, that's all what I ask from you AMD. 

Pentium 20th anniversary was unlocked.

[PlayStation 2]

1 minute ago, gameboy3800 said:

Pentium 20th anniversary was unlocked.

To be fair, it was a one-off chip, as in it won't really happen again.

It's an overclocking toy and not much else, to put it bluntly.

[Energycore]

13 hours ago, ShadowCaptain said:

Personally I dont care if its AMD, Intel, or Coca Cola, if somebody makes a good CPU and GPU I will buy it

Im not holding my breath for AMD (or intel for that matter) they have to prove their products are worth my money and time, I have no loyalty for any company

If Coca Cola made a CPU i'd buy it for novelty's sake.

[Guest]

14 hours ago, gameboy3800 said:

i cannot wait for all the new AMD stuff coming out this year! it has been far too long since we got a good full set of AMD hardware. the last time we got a good full set of hardware was back in 2012 with the FX 8350 and 7970 ghz. i would love for my next workstation to be all amd once again. right now it has a 5820k and 2x 980 tis. the zen and polaris hardware look like they will both be a lot more efficient and powerful. are you as hyped as i am? what's your standing on an all AMD build becoming a viable high-end option once again? are you blue/green team?

 

*insert The AMD Fanboy Song by Tech Of Tomorrow*

I always go with AMD GPUs, then tend to be cheaper and have better performance....most of the time

[royalcrown]

I hope AMD matches Intel, because intel is getting back to their "consumer will buy what we make and like it" mindset. They are getting lazy on releasing features enthusiasts want in their chip sets.

[Castdeath97]

8 hours ago, gameboy3800 said:

Pentium 20th anniversary was unlocked.

Well:

 

1- Intel kept screwing with which chipsets can overclock it

2- It's not a quad core, as per my next post.

3- More importunately:

 

8 hours ago, Dan Castellaneta said:

To be fair, it was a one-off chip, as in it won't really happen again.

It's an overclocking toy and not much else, to put it bluntly.

Which is supported by the fact that there was no skylake overclockable pentium. I

[Darkshruod]

17 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

Got it.

 

To be fair, people have reported AMD/Nvidia being marginally better than AMD/AMD due to less driver overhead.

What is driver overhead? Just general annoyance of multiple programs?

[Edgar R. Zakarian]

21 hours ago, Starelementpoke said:

Got it.

 

To be fair, people have reported AMD/Nvidia being marginally better than AMD/AMD due to less driver overhead.

Yeah Digital foundry stated in a video, that AMD graphics cards required more CPU power to function than Nvidia's due to drivers. 

So basically for weak cpu's, Nvidia is good.

[Starelementpoke]

5 hours ago, Darkshruod said:

What is driver overhead? Just general annoyance of multiple programs?

From the way I think of it, kinda like translation speed.. For example, say you have someone who is only proficient in a certain foreign language, and is acting as a translator. The foreigner is speaking to the translator, and is conveying what the translator should translate. The translator, being proficient, can translate for the person with little to no issues. Now say you replace the proficient translator with someone who's new to it, they'll take more time to convey what the foreigner is saying, making them not as efficient.