Bulldozer hype

[Ya93sin]

Thing is though, when Bulldozer comes out and is in full swing in terms of sales, the release of Ivy Bridge will be a matter of a few months away, and that should be a big step up. We shall see I guess. But as long as Intel and AMD have good competition, then that will keep prices down on both sides for all of us

 

[Mr Muggles]

Here's hoping Bulldozer 'does exactly what it says on the tin'

The i5 2500k is an excellent chip. 4.7mhz...that's phenomenal!

 

[ExpertLayman]

Are there any home-user-OS that actually utilise multi-core technology fully? I know windows 7 doesn't.

And as far as I know most games written don't take advantage of it.

All hype this core business, until they have a programming language that makes it easy to write or better still a compiler that does all the work for you.

Until then just give me one blisteringly fast CPU with one core.

(Hoping AMD release it soon.)

 

[Mr Muggles]

Are there any home-user-OS that actually utilise multi-core technology fully? I know windows 7 doesn't.

And as far as I know most games written don't take advantage of it.

All hype this core business, until they have a programming language that makes it easy to write or better still a compiler that does all the work for you.

Until then just give me one blisteringly fast CPU with one core.

(Hoping AMD release it soon.)

GTA is quad core optimised I believe.

 

[dugdiamond]

...until they have a programming language that makes it easy to write or better still a compiler that does all the work for you.

they have brought out an easier way to program - it's .NET

i hate it - it enables less proficient coders to write software, that is more prone to bugs.

students of software programming should be adept at the raw basics (C++/assembler), and hold a degree in that before they are allowed further languages being taught to them.

 

[Bungral]

Ivy Bridge is only a die shrink and optimization of the Sandy Bridge architecture. It's not a new architecture so probably wont be a massive step up.

Sure it'll improve thermals, power consumption and perhaps overclocking but clock for clock performance probably wont be drastically superior.

Thing is though, when Bulldozer comes out and is in full swing in terms of sales, the release of Ivy Bridge will be a matter of a few months away, and that should be a big step up. We shall see I guess. But as long as Intel and AMD have good competition, then that will keep prices down on both sides for all of us