Recent content by Allio

I think if I'd just dropped $500 on a 9900K six months ago, I'd be breathing a big sigh of relief that my CPU is now only obsolete from an economic perspective and not a performance perspective.

You seem to have been wanting/expecting not only a huge jump forward in performance and power efficiency but a simultaneous slashing in price. Can you point to a time in the history of consumer CPUs where that has ever happened? If you just wanted something cheaper, wait for the Ryzen 3 models...

AMD just overtook Intel in IPC and absolute single-thread performance for the first time since March 7 2006. 15% improvement in IPC is bigger than any single Intel generational improvement since Conroe and the biggest jump by anyone since first-generation Ryzen. Not to mention that performance...

Can you imagine the carnage in this thread if AMD made a last-minute decision to push the NDA lift date back two weeks?

Reminds me a bit of the original Conroe demonstration. Best way to silence the critics is to flatter your opposition rather than minimising it. The fact that Intel overclocked the FX-60 they were benchmarking against, and still whooped it, has stuck with me even 10 years later.

Hardcoreware tested this and found a substantial improvement over Bulldozer in every game they tested, with the exception of Skyrim (which seems to just flat-out suck on every AMD CPU). Obviously the 3570k isn't threatened, but the 8350 actually manages to edge it out in Crysis 2.

It's worse than the worst-case scenario :(

Seriously, guys? AMD (a company 1/25th Intel's size, let's not forget) develops a brand new, completely novel architecture that looks to perform a whopping 50% percent better than its previous generation, and all you can do is yawn? Nitpick about how AMD is "technically" using eight cores when...

Wow 1155 sounds awful. Sandy Bridge is a tock cycle, right? Performance will have to be outstanding to generate any excitement. I'm sure it will be, that's Intel's strength and they haven't made many mis-steps since Core 2 came out... but AMD is definitely positioning themselves as a more...

It's not so much the encoding program as the codec. x264 is beautifully multithreaded and scales near-perfectly as you add more cores. xvid, which I assume you're using because you're using AutoGK, tries its best but doesn't gain anywhere near as much from more cores. I really suggest...

I'm sure that was the problem. Power saver: lowest frequency 100% of the time Balanced: lowest frequency when no load, full frequency under load Full performance: full frequency 100% of the time Try turning Cool 'n Quiet back on and set your power management to Balanced.

I think these are really exciting chips. I'm not sure why so many people seem to think that if it doesn't outright take the performance crown from Intel, it's not worthwhile or interesting. These seem like they will have amazing bang for buck for certain kinds of users.

I got a U2410 a couple of weeks ago and asked for a replacement. Both were packed identically, in polystyrene shells.

My nForce4/A64 3200+ with 1GB DDR400 runs Win 7 just fine, though I wouldn't want to play any games with it.

The card was like 1-2% faster in every other game, even 2560x1600 with 8xAA. You'd expect better peformance than that just from the rather hefty increase in clocks. Not sure what's going on with that card...