alienware
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Nah, I doubt it. I mean, the 2600k shames the 990x so I can't see how AMD could possibly come up with something to beat it.
Again, Bulldozer is based around Magny Cours, which won't touch Sandybridge. I would imagine price will be the key to its success. (edit and the onboard GPU of course !)
I may be pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it. AMD are now after the sectors of the market where the most money is to be made. Laptop CPUs, good onboard GPUs and so on. The enthusiast market is but a boil on the bum compared to the mass consumer market.
They just don't have the cash to put into the research mate. Seriously, staying atop Intel for three years nearly saw them bankrupt. They were selling CPUs at £400 odd a go and making hardly anything. Intel, however, threw money down the drain for those three years and didn't even break a sweat (those utterly awful P4s, see, all of them). It was only Core 2 Duo that got them back to the top and they haven't looked back since.
Again, Bulldozer is based around Magny Cours, which won't touch Sandybridge. I would imagine price will be the key to its success. (edit and the onboard GPU of course !)
I may be pleasantly surprised, but I doubt it. AMD are now after the sectors of the market where the most money is to be made. Laptop CPUs, good onboard GPUs and so on. The enthusiast market is but a boil on the bum compared to the mass consumer market.
They just don't have the cash to put into the research mate. Seriously, staying atop Intel for three years nearly saw them bankrupt. They were selling CPUs at £400 odd a go and making hardly anything. Intel, however, threw money down the drain for those three years and didn't even break a sweat (those utterly awful P4s, see, all of them). It was only Core 2 Duo that got them back to the top and they haven't looked back since.
