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Amazon Plans 5000 New UK Jobs

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39020080

Online retail giant Amazon has said it will create 5,000 new full-time jobs in the UK this year. The firm said it was looking for a range of staff including software developers and warehouse staff.

There will be jobs at Amazon's head office in London, as well as in the Edinburgh customer service centre and in three new warehouses.

The recruitment will take Amazon's workforce in the UK to more than 24,000. Doug Gurr, the head of Amazon's UK business, said: "We are creating thousands of new UK jobs including hundreds of apprenticeship opportunities as we continue to innovate for our customers and provide them with even faster delivery, more selection and better value."

The company is opening three new warehouses, or what it calls "fulfilment centres", in Tilbury, Doncaster and Daventry.
The extra warehouse space will be used to cope with existing growth and to speed-up deliveries.

It will also handle deliveries for third-party retailers, who sell through Amazon's website and use Amazon for deliveries. Growth in those third-party sellers has been particularly rapid.

So much for Brexit doom and gloom eh.
 
You will be able to pre-order The Ryzen 7 1700, 1700X and 1800X from 6PM UK time from Today 22/2/2017
 
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I can't wait. Hopefully the UK prices are not too high compared to the US.

Gibbo at OCUK said this on their forums

"OcUK is the ONLY AMD Super-Alpha on-line reseller in the UK, that means we have priority allocation over anyone else, which means we get stock first and the majority off it, we shall also be hitting the AMD MSRP's, there shall be no milking it as to speak and we shall be giving FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY ON THE BASKET. Absolutely no reason to buy elsewhere."
 
Gibbo at OCUK said this on their forums

"OcUK is the ONLY AMD Super-Alpha on-line reseller in the UK, that means we have priority allocation over anyone else, which means we get stock first and the majority off it, we shall also be hitting the AMD MSRP's, there shall be no milking it as to speak and we shall be giving FREE NEXT DAY DELIVERY ON THE BASKET. Absolutely no reason to buy elsewhere."

hah, Gibbo is a salesman he will talk as much pony as he has to to get a sale. Why do you think he drives a Porker?

Having said all of that (all of Gibbo's patters aside) I do order from OCUK when and where I can. I get free shipping, even on small items that would normally be doubled in price because of the shipping. So I have had no reason to order from elsewhere for ages now.

But yeah, don't need sales patter. I like his one today about how Ryzen works best with 2400-2666 memory so here buy this memory I am now listing for you. lmao.

I will be ordering some PC stuff this time next week (Firecuda maybe and a new gaming surface for sure) so will see how their prices stack up :)

Well, there are.. but that's another story ;)

Proudfoot is long gone. It took me an awful, awful long time to buy from OCUK even after Caseking took over.

So far they have been exemplary for me.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVcIss7m5SM

CH6 unboxing.

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I think I see AM3 holes there !
 
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According to a very odd report, the 7700K offers what appears to be considerably more consistent performance in a CPU-bound game like GTA V than the R7 1700.

https://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16190

What's confusing is the minimums and maximums being so low yet with averages so close to the 7700K. Unless Ryzen is having odd and very irregular spikes in the lows and the 7700K is having odd and irregular spikes in the highs, this graph doesn't make sense. If it's true, though, GTA V could remain one of AMD's major failings. It is such a hugely popular game and Nvidia has ruled it since its introduction. Now it appears maybe Intel will as well.
 
According to a very odd report, the 7700K offers what appears to be considerably more consistent performance in a CPU-bound game like GTA V than the R7 1700.

https://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16190

What's confusing is the minimums and maximums being so low yet with averages so close to the 7700K. Unless Ryzen is having odd and very irregular spikes in the lows and the 7700K is having odd and irregular spikes in the highs, this graph doesn't make sense. If it's true, though, GTA V could remain one of AMD's major failings. It is such a hugely popular game and Nvidia has ruled it since its introduction. Now it appears maybe Intel will as well.

Hard to know, it is an early leak from a lesser known YouTuber, hard to know if there were other factors that were coming into play.

We will need to wait for full reviews with more well-rounded testing.
 
According to a very odd report, the 7700K offers what appears to be considerably more consistent performance in a CPU-bound game like GTA V than the R7 1700.

https://www.ocaholic.ch/modules/news/article.php?storyid=16190

What's confusing is the minimums and maximums being so low yet with averages so close to the 7700K. Unless Ryzen is having odd and very irregular spikes in the lows and the 7700K is having odd and irregular spikes in the highs, this graph doesn't make sense. If it's true, though, GTA V could remain one of AMD's major failings. It is such a hugely popular game and Nvidia has ruled it since its introduction. Now it appears maybe Intel will as well.

It's the same sort of scenario with the 6950x and 5950x etc. The lower threaded higher clocked CPU will always win in gaming at the moment thanks to crap core support.

I know a lot of people say "Hey an I3 can beat a 8320 !" but you don't often hear them saying that an I3K can actually beat a 6950x, if the thread count is low enough on the given game.

Those who understand it won't care. Because as soon as you roll into something like Cinebench it all changes.

I fully expect to see far more aggressive clocks as AMD roll out the lower cored/heat/power CPUs.
 
It's the same sort of scenario with the 6950x and 5950x etc. The lower threaded higher clocked CPU will always win in gaming at the moment thanks to crap core support.

I know a lot of people say "Hey an I3 can beat a 8320 !" but you don't often hear them saying that an I3K can actually beat a 6950x, if the thread count is low enough on the given game.

Those who understand it won't care. Because as soon as you roll into something like Cinebench it all changes.

I fully expect to see far more aggressive clocks as AMD roll out the lower cored/heat/power CPUs.

I disagree. Those who do understand it will care. They may not care as much about Cinebench and may not want to wait however many years it takes developers to start adopting techniques that better utilise higher core counts and threads. They want the highest performing CPU for the games they play now. If in GTA V that is the 7700K, they'll buy it. If in BF1 it's the R7 1700, they'll buy it.

As for higher clocks on the more lower-end segment, while I suspect they will be able to hit slightly higher clock speeds, I don't know by much or if it will make up the difference. People will see the 7700K leading in many games and they'll disregard the clearly superior CPU architecture of Ryzen. I may not, but I wouldn't consider myself to be part of the majority.
 
What I meant was those who understand it won't care. IE - those building a workstation for example where they know they can get the most out of a CPU. It's not all about gaming.

AMD are releasing this CPU for every one other than gamers, they come later with the quad core CPUs that will no doubt be far cheaper and clock way higher.

They're just having their moment in the sun is all. Once they have rinsed out the high price sales they'll bring along the cheaper stuff.
 
TBH AMD may not have even settled on the final clocks yet. The prices look believable though. Well, at least in the same galaxy as I would expect them to be :)
 
Rest in piece Bill Paxton, he just passed away at 61, such a great actor.

Ahhh, that's a shame. Frequency is one of my favourite guilty pleasures. I'm sad to hear it was due to surgery complications, suggesting it was not entirely expected. That will be tough for the family.
 
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