AMD Refreshes Q1 CPU Offerings - New CPUs and Cooler designs

[WYP]

AMD has refreshed their Q1 CPU offerings, offering New CPUs, APUs and Cooler designs. One of the CPUs uses AMD's new Excavator CPU design.

Read more on AMD's new CPU and APU offerings.

 

[AlienALX]

A nice try, but you'd be pretty crazy to go with any AMD CPU atm.

 

[m2geek]

A nice try, but you'd be pretty crazy to go with any AMD CPU atm.

Yea no kidding!

Nothing AMD make at the moment is even Remotely worth spending money on.

I hope "Zen" is a return to *Good* and *PROPER* AMD CPUs.

 

[AlienALX]

Yea no kidding!

Nothing AMD make at the moment is even Remotely worth spending money on.

I hope "Zen" is a return to *Good* and *PROPER* AMD CPUs.

The APUs still serve a purpose if you are looking for something to game very mildly on but anything more strenuous nowadays will leave you wanting.

Zen will have a much stronger GPU portion I feel so yeah, waiting is probably sensible.

 

[m2geek]

The APUs still serve a purpose if you are looking for something to game very mildly on but anything more strenuous nowadays will leave you wanting.

Zen will have a much stronger GPU portion I feel so yeah, waiting is probably sensible.

Mmm - I haven't had a AMD CPU since the Phenom X4 I had ages ago. Been Nothing but Intel/NVidia since.

 

[xnax2802]

Might consider that 7860K for my upcoming HTPC build if Zen doesn't show up before I get off my backside

 

[AlienALX]

Mmm - I haven't had a AMD CPU since the Phenom X4 I had ages ago. Been Nothing but Intel/NVidia since.

A while back now (and I mean at least a couple of years) I was faced with either 4670k and board or 8320 with best board. I chose 8320 with best board because I wanted to run a SLI hack that needed something the 4670k didn't have, and the locked version of the same CPU was pretty slow.

I don't regret it, at all. I absolutely loved my 8320, it clocked like a nut case and gaming on it was about as good as I could have expected. It was also excellent for running VMware (where I5 Ks can't) and so on.

I only got rid of it because I had some luck with money and decided to go with a pretty high end Intel that was hands down better in everything.

The 8320E is still overall a much better CPU than the I3 6100. The problem is, if you are looking for a low down and dirty gaming rig the I3 in most games is faster and therefore there is no reason to go with the 8320E. It's highlighted even more by the board cost for the 8320E (if you want it to shine you need an expensive board) and the top end cooling. Nothing but a H100+ will do, really.

So yeah, since Skylake the I3 is the better gaming CPU. Obviously if you are threading hard then the 8320E is better, but that's not the case most of the time.

 

[MrKambo]

I don't regret it, at all. I absolutely loved my 8320, it clocked like a nut case and gaming on it was about as good as I could have expected. It was also excellent for running VMware (where I5 Ks can't) and so on.

I may have misunderstood what you said, but according to Intel ARK, the I5 4690K supports Virtualisation Technology

http://ark.intel.com/products/80811/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

I mean any CPU can run VMWare Guest OS's but with VT obviously has better control of the instruction set.

 

[Tripp]

I may have misunderstood what you said, but according to Intel ARK, the I5 4690K supports Virtualisation Technology

http://ark.intel.com/products/80811/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

I mean any CPU can run VMWare Guest OS's but with VT obviously has better control of the instruction set.

Yeah it would seem you're right, even I didn't think they were able to haha

 

[Kilbane]

I may have misunderstood what you said, but according to Intel ARK, the I5 4690K supports Virtualisation Technology

http://ark.intel.com/products/80811/Intel-Core-i5-4690K-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_90-GHz

I mean any CPU can run VMWare Guest OS's but with VT obviously has better control of the instruction set.

i5 K series CPU's support VT-x but not VT-d on most systems. All down to the chip having direct IO access for VMWare. But VMWare WILL run on i5 K series chips, just need to install it to run using VT-x, plus you must make sure it is enables within the BIOS.

 

[wozza365]

Yea no kidding!

Nothing AMD make at the moment is even Remotely worth spending money on.

I hope "Zen" is a return to *Good* and *PROPER* AMD CPUs.

The FX-6300 is still at a decent price point and provides good bang for your buck in a mid range gaming rig. It's what I picked up when I needed to build a PC (ex GPU) for £200. The alternative was the lowest i3 for about a tenner more or a pentium. I really didn't want to go back to a dual core due to some heavily threaded software I have and games generally being able to take advantage of more cores these days. Just wish I bought a better motherboard that doesn't like the idea of overclocking the GPU or CPU.

 

[William]

I think that they are not that bad as people say (especially for its price) but yeah, waiting for Zen is probably better choice. When will Zen based APUs come out? Probably next year?

 

[NeverBackDown]

I think that they are not that bad as people say (especially for its price) but yeah, waiting for Zen is probably better choice. When will Zen based APUs come out? Probably next year?

More than likely. As of now Zen based FX chips are scheduled for end of 2016, my guess is late October if it indeed releases in Q4. Just a hunch

 

[William]

I think that this APUs could be interesting choice. It could be pretty good when DX12 multi GPU (IGPU + dedicated GPU) will become standard. Of course assuming that the CPU part of the product would be acceptable.

 

[NeverBackDown]

I think that this APUs could be interesting choice. It could be pretty good when DX12 multi GPU (IGPU + dedicated GPU) will become standard. Of course assuming that the CPU part of the product would be acceptable.

Don't think it'll ever be standard.

 

[William]

I actually think that it will gain in popularity very fast after first developers starts to implement it. It's basically a free performance for their games because most modern computers have some kind of graphics core or second dedicated GPU that would not work with crossfire but would with this technology.

But that are just speculations. Only time will tell...

 

[AlienALX]

Don't think it'll ever be standard.

I don't know what you mean by that dude. Multi adapter is a standard feature of DX12. It takes absolutely zero work from the devs to make it work.

Even that Ashes of singularity works with it and shows performance increases.