Recent content by Pixelpusher6

I guess I should have rephrased that as "the increase in power consumption would be minimal". My point was that the i5 2310 overclocked to 3.7 and currently priced $10 cheaper at $180 on newegg than a Bulldozer 8150 is a much better deal. A lot of people don't realize that the non-k Intel...

"Also, server parts are never going to have the volume" Really? I thought servers in data centers require a lot of CPUs. Also the margins on enterprise chips are much better than anything in the consumer segments. Lately I haven't agreed with many of AMD's strategic moves and I don't think...

Who knows maybe AMD can greatly improve their position with Piledriver, but they have to really focus on value/$. It happened with Phenom 1 -> Phenom 2. I would be curious to know what gains were netted from overclocking and if these are worth the huge power consumption increase. If you didn't...

Hey do you happen to know if you pre-order a Jalapeno now how long before you actually receive it?

What?! Wow its gone up considerably since I was looking at building a setup. Just a month or two ago it was sitting at $5 and the outlook was pretty grim. At $12.5 it becomes a lot more tempting. I'd still be a little concerned though about ASICs coming online, a lot of the big players were...

I wasn't really trying to make an apples to apples comparison. I guess my point was rather 192 bit memory bus reduces the memory bandwidth which the Kepler architecture has already shown signs of weakness against GCN. Whether this makes a difference remains to be seen. I think either the ROPs...

Haha took me too long to type my response. Good choice on the Asus Rev WS, and you'll also have a spare PCIe slot if you decide to add a 4th card in the future from all your bitcoin profits! I've been thinking about starting mining but one thing that has me worried is the difficulty spike...

Yea true if Bitcoin mining is your main usage then PCIe bandwidth doesn't really have any impact. I think you are going to have to spend a minimum of $200 for a board though. Even though there are boards like mine Gigabyte Z68 D3H B3 that have 3 PCIe slots, they are are not designed to run 3...

While I tend to agree about the $299, I think it would sell pretty well at $249. The lowest price for a 7950 on newegg is $350, or $330 with mail in rebate which whose to say there won't be MIR with the GTX 660Ti, still you have to lay out $350 to begin with and you might get that $20 back 12...

I currently own the Gigabyte Z68 D3H B3 and this board is entry level in every sense of the word. If you plan on overclocking it hits a ceiling at around 4.3~4.4Ghz on SNB probably because it only has 4 VRMs. Also the PCIe configuration is not 8x 8x 4x, rather it is 16x 4x or 8x 8x 1x. As soon...

Hey all, first post on these forums. Not sure why it's taken me so long considering I've been visiting this site / forum for over 10 years. Anyway I think the GTX660Ti shows some of the problems of having GK104 fill so many rolls. This card is a no go at $300 regardless if some Nvidia proponents...