Should i wait for zen?

[kidpcbuilder2004]

I am waiting for zen. But in the amd press conference it says that zen will be using the x86 architecture. Can it run 64bit windows?

[Salty]

yes

[zMeul]

5 minutes ago, kidpcbuilder2004 said:

I am waiting for zen. But in the amd press conference it says that zen will be using the x86 architecture. Can it run 64bit windows?

"64 bit Windows" is still x86

x86_64 is just an extension to the x86 architecture

[The Sloth]

zen is very promising it would be a good idea waiting for zen rather than grabbing a i5.

[Matias_Chambers]

Yes, AMD is announcing it in like 2 days. 

[kidpcbuilder2004]

1 hour ago, Matias_Chambers said:

Yes, AMD is announcing it in like 2 days. 

But what about the motherboard.

No way any company can whipped up a motherboard that fast. I was hoping to get the holiday discounts.

[KuJoe]

I would wait for Zen and Kaby Lake even if you don't plan on buying either since there's a really good chance the current gen CPUs will drop in price once the new generation is released (or you can probably get used CPUs for cheap when people want to upgrade to the latest gen). Either way, I'd wait it out, it should only be a few more months at most.

[Matias_Chambers]

10 minutes ago, kidpcbuilder2004 said:

But what about the motherboard.

No way any company can whipped up a motherboard that fast. I was hoping to get the holiday discounts.

There will most likely be motherboards ready when the CPU's are out. They should be fully released at the end of this year or January next year.

 

 

[KuJoe]

12 minutes ago, kidpcbuilder2004 said:

But what about the motherboard.

No way any company can whipped up a motherboard that fast. I was hoping to get the holiday discounts.

I'm fairly certain that motherboard manufacturers have had Zen and Kaby Lake CPUs for a while now. That's where all of the leaked specs have been coming from I believe. Linus even said on a prior WAN Show that motherboard manufacturers get engineering samples of the CPU so that when the CPU is released there's hardware that supports it.

[Matias_Chambers]

You can watch the Zen announcement live here: http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/new-horizon

[Jumper118]

6 hours ago, kidpcbuilder2004 said:

I am waiting for zen. But in the amd press conference it says that zen will be using the x86 architecture. Can it run 64bit windows?

Amd were the first to bring out 64bit processors so I would hope so. 

[SLAYR]

6 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

Amd were the first to bring out 64bit processors so I would hope so. 

It is more then just they were the first, they invented and have all the patents on the x86-64 also known as AMD64, Intel and any other cpu makers wanting to use it have to pay AMD to use it.

7 hours ago, kidpcbuilder2004 said:

I am waiting for zen. But in the amd press conference it says that zen will be using the x86 architecture. Can it run 64bit windows?

There haven't been only x86 only cpus for over ten years now, pretty stupid to not have it especially if they own it, and limit all its users to 4gb of ram.

[Jumper118]

26 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

It is more then just they were the first, they invented and have all the patents on the x86-64 also known as AMD64, Intel and any other cpu makers wanting to use it have to pay AMD to use it.

There haven't been only x86 only cpus for over ten years now, pretty stupid to not have it especially if they own it, and limit all its users to 4gb of ram.

Yeah I know