[QUOTE=ChristopherB;22648914]I'll be saving my money up. My Intel E6850 is showing it's age. Hopefully Sandy Bridge will be a huge leap up for me.[/QUOTE]
If money is tight, then AMD's offerings are also worth looking at. The Phenom II's are around $150
and are very fast.
but if not, and you want to wait.. wait. I waited for the 400 series and it was totally worth it. You never know about bulldozer/sandy bridge.
AMD Bulldozer?
Link please?
[QUOTE=Unreliable;22650758]AMD Bulldozer?
Link please?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://www.anandtech.com/show/2872[/url]
[QUOTE=dArKnEsS_2;22595230]Socket Pins =/= Performance[/QUOTE]
Because my post have totally implied that
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22651577]Because my post have totally implied that[/QUOTE]
yes it does
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22592334]It's plain stupid that Intel is [B]downgrading[/B] the number of pins on the CPU[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=reapaninja;22658242]yes it does[/QUOTE]
No it does not, perhaps the word downgrade is unfitting in this scenario, but that's not what i meant.
My point being is that why can't they just keep some dummy pins, this way consumers won't get confused on which socket is more recent, since the numbers of pins on the CPU have only increased in the previous generations, not decrease.
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22659786]No it does not, perhaps the word downgrade is unfitting in this scenario, but that's not what i meant.
My point being is that why can't they just keep some dummy pins, this way consumers won't get confused on which socket is more recent, since the numbers of pins on the CPU have only increased in the previous generations, not decrease.[/QUOTE]
If Intel was concerned about people getting confused with it's new processors, it wouldn't be changing sockets and leaving the i7-i3 tags on the new processors. How can someone tell an i5 dual core from a quad without knowing the specific model name, or if it has the extra graphics chip?
It seems obvious they don't want it to be easy to tell. Here's an article I came across that I think sums this up nicely: [url]http://www.computerpoweruser.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Farchive%2Fc0909%2F60c09%2F60c09.asp&guid=[/url]
[QUOTE=B1N4RY!;22659786]No it does not, perhaps the word downgrade is unfitting in this scenario, but that's not what i meant.
My point being is that why can't they just keep some dummy pins, this way consumers won't get confused on which socket is more recent, since the numbers of pins on the CPU have only increased in the previous generations, not decrease.[/QUOTE]
A socket change means alot more than changing the pin number. I think its a change in the order the pins 'fire' data through or receive data and how the processor interacts with other components.
[QUOTE=PunchedInFac;22661925]A socket change means alot more than changing the pin number. I think its a change in the order the pins 'fire' data through or receive data.[/QUOTE]
I'm not talking/concerned about its changes electrical pin configurations, but its hardware pin configurations.
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