AMD announce 3 new AM3+ FX CPUs

[Tripp]

@tripp: you wouldnt happen to know the guy that makes pedestals etc for the switch 810 would ya?

Hey buddy I can't say he springs to mind, but I know a lot of people so it's always a possibility

 

[Kushiro]

Ahh I see, thanks. Was just hoping

Unfortunately the guys site is down and it apears he may no longer be in business just when I finally got the time to finish my switch 810.

 

[Thelosouvlakia]

Remember when it was a time that AMD was supporting both DDR2 and DDR3 on the same CPU?
AMD could make a "new" socket and chipset that would support new stuff but could also give current AM3+ users the ability to install the new processor via a bios update....
Although... The way DDR3 works in comparison to DDR4 is way different

 

[Tripp]

Ahh I see, thanks. Was just hoping

Unfortunately the guys site is down and it apears he may no longer be in business just when I finally got the time to finish my switch 810.

Awww that sucks fella, how long has the site been down for?

 

[Kushiro]

Couple'o months it would seem, too bad.

Also Intel supported DDR2 and 3 on the same board as well at some point I believe.

 

[barnsley]

AMD are the smaller company in a shrinking market. I'll be watching the Opteron roadmap for clues to future cpus.

 

[shambles1980]

Couple'o months it would seem, too bad.

Also Intel supported DDR2 and 3 on the same board as well at some point I believe.

lga 775 supported ddr ddr2 and ddr3 over the years
but the memory controller was on the mother board for lga 775...

 

[WYP]

If AMD had their own Fabs like Intel i'm sure they would do so much more, but they don't and they have to fight for compeition to get the silicon, instead they have to settle for what silicon architecture is available and unlike intel it isn't designed for a single purpose which can lead to less performance. Intel on the other hand can optimize every single bit of the architecture for the best balance of power/efficiency.

Yeah, Intel's process node lead has always been one source of their current lead over AMD. Honestly AMD are doing a good job even competing anywhere in the market.

Intel has been at 22nm for so long now, and will soon get even smaller while AMD have to stick to 28nm and 32nm while they wait for 20nm.

I personally look forward to the next few years seeing what can be done with 20nm and later on 16nm finfet.

 

[MadShadow]

AMD are getting so desperate, they are rebranding OCZ SSDs. I wonder when they will actually become competative in the CPU market again. If the Nvidia 800 series GPUs do well, then they are screwed.

 

[NeverBackDown]

AMD are getting so desperate, they are rebranding OCZ SSDs. I wonder when they will actually become competative in the CPU market again. If the Nvidia 800 series GPUs do well, then they are screwed.

Don't see how rebranding something makes them desperate? Corsair rebrand their ssds, does that make them desperate? Its an OCZ controller but toshiba nand so its not entirely OCZ.

 

[hmmblah]

If AMD had their own Fabs like Intel i'm sure they would do so much more, but they don't and they have to fight for compeition to get the silicon, instead they have to settle for what silicon architecture is available and unlike intel it isn't designed for a single purpose which can lead to less performance. Intel on the other hand can optimize every single bit of the architecture for the best balance of power/efficiency.

AMD did have their own fabs, Global Foundries is a spin-off. They had to do something to save themselves and that was their best option at the time.

 

[NeverBackDown]

AMD did have their own fabs, Global Foundries is a spin-off. They had to do something to save themselves and that was their best option at the time.

Never knew that. Interesting. Well it still doesn't change my previous post anyway because they still don't have their own like intel. Sad that they had to lose it though as i'm sure if they kept it it would have made competition much different.

 

[RizeAllard]

Its good to hear that they try to refresh their AM3+ processors, mostly in the energy efficentcy way, but they would need a new architecture to be more competetive against intel. I would like to se a real competition in every segment not just in the mid and low range. I really like the FM2 and FM2+ processors but its not enought for the future. I just can hope they will come out with a brand new core architecture next year wich can cope with the i7 of i5 sereis in every aspect. Hope never die...

 

[Zoot]

Never knew that. Interesting. Well it still doesn't change my previous post anyway because they still don't have their own like intel. Sad that they had to lose it though as i'm sure if they kept it it would have made competition much different.

Fabs are extremely expensive to run, maintain, and require huge R&D spends to keep up to date. There's a reason there's only a select few companies in the world that operate major Fabs; Samsung, IBM, Global Foundries, TSMC, Intel. You can count them on the fingers of one hand! (unless I'm missing somebody)

Have you seen the size of Intel's R&D budget? There's no way AMD could afford that, I'd much rather they stayed fabless for that reason.

 

[NeverBackDown]

Fabs are extremely expensive to run, maintain, and require huge R&D spends to keep up to date. There's a reason there's only a select few companies in the world that operate major Fabs; Samsung, IBM, Global Foundries, TSMC, Intel. You can count them on the fingers of one hand! (unless I'm missing somebody)

Have you seen the size of Intel's R&D budget? There's no way AMD could afford that, I'd much rather they stayed fabless for that reason.

Yeah but it was all hypothetical. I said if they still had it competition might be different. We will never know but its a shame.