I have no intentions to OC but i was thinking about the ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 LP... its the same price as the S-963.. anything preferable over the other?
Which CPU is best for me?
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I have no intentions to OC but i was thinking about the ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 64 LP... its the same price as the S-963.. anything preferable over the other?
Fatback
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Intel does not fit his budget Intel has always overpriced there CPU there for only making them for people that is not on a tight budget.
Bodaggit23
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I can't wait to see how much i5 cpu's and boards will be.
bomberboysk
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Some people have supposedly already got them from fry's.
Fatback
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They will probably be like all the Intel CPU's but I hope Intel will price them lower if they do then I might consider them for my next build if not then I will stick to AMD like planned.
Aastii
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when i finally get a stable job and have a bit of cash flow going (my job is ok now but unpredictable for hours and pay) I will be scrapping my board and CPU and going for AMD. Intel have gone off the rails with price, with quality and with compatability. When the multi-core cpu's came out they were so good. 1 sizefits all for all of their chips and their processors were well good, but now AMD have learned from how intel used to operate and work like that and will hopefully stick to it.
If you have the money, get intel for the performance, but if you want to upgrade you are looking at new mobo aswell as CPU. If you want a system that will last and can upgrade and is to a not massive budget, go AMD
If you have the money, get intel for the performance, but if you want to upgrade you are looking at new mobo aswell as CPU. If you want a system that will last and can upgrade and is to a not massive budget, go AMD
Intel_man
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i5's are priced lower than i7's. Get your facts right.
Fatback
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I would hope so they are less of a CPU and it is a fact that Intel over charges for there CPU's.
bomberboysk
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Intel does not over charge for cpu's, intel can charge as much as they like for the simple reason that they own the high end market right now. Secondly, the i5 is almost identical to the i7 in most areas of performance.
Fatback
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Yea I understand what your saying but when you compare Intel CPU to performance VS AMD CPU to performance they are overpriced because you can get the same with AMD.
bomberboysk
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Core 2 only, and in that case, yes core 2 line is overpriced. i7 has no AMD equivalent.
Fatback
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That's what I was talking about and yes I know there is not an AMD CPU that can touch a i7.
That depends on what you are doing. Plus take into account performance per dollar. It's so wrong when people compare an I7 975 to the AMD 955, you don't use stock clock speed as reference to compare you use price. It's I7 920 VS AMD 965 currently that are the same price range. And in gaming, the 965 has an edge. Actually, if you left it stock clock speeds, the 965 would probably beat the I7 in everything. 2.66 VS 3.4 GHZ, huge difference especially with gaming benchmarks and real world gaming as well.
People with short memories. AMD and Intel both over price their processor when they are one the top, especially their top of the line processor. When AMD released the FX-60 the thing was a 1000 bucks.
Well, 5 years ago perhaps intel was the better bang for the buck. Now AMD is. Perhaps the highest intel processor at the time was $200-250 just like AMD's is now, there's no way I would have been buying AMD at the time because the FX-60 isn't going to be 4-5 times more powerful. Thats kinda what bang for the buck means.
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Was that directed at me? If so I dont get your point, what did anything I said have to do with bang for your buck. I was talking about overpricing their top of the line processor when the other company didnt have one to match.
Your bang for your buck theory applies to everything in life, kinda of a common sense thing there.
bomberboysk
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Who is comparing i7? Im talking apples to apples, core 2 quad vs phenom II x4.
Ah, the FX-60, back when amd totally annihilated anything intel had by far.
FX-60 was their last big dog, good processor but didnt really have any overhead. Ran kinda warm but what the, it was a FX-60
. By the time the FX-62 came out the Core 2 was released, the price war started and here we are now.