• AMD FM2 or AM3+
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I was gonna upgrade to bulldozer in two weeks, but then I saw that FM2 is coming out q1 next year. Rumor has it that FM2 is going to phase out am3+. Should I wait longer or just get bulldozer?
I'd wait til LGA 2011 or FM2 to be honest
I feel like I've been betrayed. By how I've been following all of this, the next generation CPUs by AMD were targeting AM3+.
It's ok, i just bought a new processor without knowing that bulldozer comes out in a few weeks. $170, i would have waited. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] But still, i'm happy. Anything is better than what i have now. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] Also, if you wait till Q1 next year, i'm sure there will be something else coming out that you might want to hold off on. Waiting on the next thing in pc hardware is a waste of time sometimes. You'll just be waiting forever. I'd say wait for bulldozer, but that's just me.
[QUOTE=Dylan_94;32024603]It's ok, i just bought a new processor without knowing that bulldozer comes out in a few weeks. $170, i would have waited. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] But still, i'm happy. Anything is better than what i have now. [editline]30th August 2011[/editline] Also, if you wait till Q1 next year, i'm sure there will be something else coming out that you might want to hold off on. Waiting on the next thing in pc hardware is a waste of time sometimes. You'll just be waiting forever. I'd say wait for bulldozer, but that's just me.[/QUOTE] I have a feeling that the FM2 socket will be similar to the FM1 in respect that it will use the APU cpus. I'm gonna get the am3+ and the flagship bulldozer. Should I wait to get a mobo?
Playing the waiting game is dangerous. You'll tell yourself to wait till some new platform is released, then you'll tell yourself to wait till the price goes down. Then you'll hear about new the new fangled whizbang and tell yourself to wait again until that comes out, and the cycle continues. I'd just go for a Sandy bridge LGA1155.
[QUOTE=bohb;32034373]Playing the waiting game is dangerous. You'll tell yourself to wait till some new platform is released, then you'll tell yourself to wait till the price goes down. Then you'll hear about new the new fangled whizbang and tell yourself to wait again until that comes out, and the cycle continues. I'd just go for a Sandy bridge LGA1155.[/QUOTE] Nothing against intel, but I've always been an amd guy. Never really had a problem with em.
I've always been an intel person, until recently. Amd really just is more bang for your buck, and i can't justify spending more than i need to anymore. Shit becomes obsolete in milliseconds
[QUOTE=QuikKill;32034409]Nothing against intel, but I've always been an amd guy. Never really had a problem with em.[/QUOTE] I was an AMD guy from 1997 until about 2006 (AMD K6/2 400 - Athlon 64 3700+). I value CPUs that have a good performance per watt, and realized that AMD was waning in this department, so I switched back to Intel after nearly a 10 year spread. I haven't seen a reason to go back to AMD yet, maybe Bulldozer will change that. I built my friend a budget Phenom II x4 945 awhile back and needless to say, it was really bad. With the stock HSF, the fan screamed under the mildest of loads, which I initially thought was due to the heatsink being caddywhompus, but it persisted after reseating. That and it put out ridiculous amounts of heat, even more than the GTS250 GPU. The final nail was that my E8400 at the time stock could outperform it in most everything single threaded wise (and even up to two cores.) I have two i5 quad cores now, both with 8 GB of RAM (one 750 and one 2400) and they're both great.
This is kind of related to the thread, but I'm just wondering: How long does the AM3+ socket have left to go? Only two weeks ago I purchased an AM3+ Motherboard and a X4 955, but I'm worried that because of FM2 that AM3+ might be phased out rather soon. I've read that the first generation of Bulldozers will be AM3+, but the generations after that will be FM2. Does anyone know when the second generation of Bulldozers comes out? Hopefully the very best of the first generation of Bulldozers can last me a while.
I read somewhere that AMD was going to release the high-end Bulldozer CPUs first and wait until sometime in 2012/2013 to release the mainstream and budget end Bulldozer CPUs. So if you bought a new rig at launch, there's no telling if the socket will be obsolescent in 6 months or a year. Hopefully it won't turn out like the Socket 423/754/1156, and possibly the 1155.
[QUOTE=bohb;32037097]I read somewhere that AMD was going to release the high-end Bulldozer CPUs first and wait until sometime in 2012/2013 to release the mainstream and budget end Bulldozer CPUs. So if you bought a new rig at launch, there's no telling if the socket will be obsolescent in 6 months or a year. Hopefully it won't turn out like the Socket 423/754/1156, and possibly the 1155.[/QUOTE] The waiting game sucks. I was gonna buy that 8 core zambezi cpu. "Desktop Performance market (Corona platform): Zambezi will be replaced by Komodo (up to 10 cores). Komodo will feature Turbo Core 3.0 under the newer Socket FM2 format" I probably don't need 8 cores, let alone 10. Gonna get the first gen bulldozer.
[QUOTE=Antdawg;32036904]This is kind of related to the thread, but I'm just wondering: How long does the AM3+ socket have left to go? Only two weeks ago I purchased an AM3+ Motherboard and a X4 955, but I'm worried that because of FM2 that AM3+ might be phased out rather soon. I've read that the first generation of Bulldozers will be AM3+, but the generations after that will be FM2. Does anyone know when the second generation of Bulldozers comes out? Hopefully the very best of the first generation of Bulldozers can last me a while.[/QUOTE] I wouldn't worry too much if I was you. With that CPU you have you can always just pop in a more powerful videocard if/when you start noticing low performance. By the time a simple videocard upgrade won't do the trick you'll be ready for a whole new system anyways. Assuming of course gaming is your main priority.
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