AMD Steamroller Price?

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Dekkers Diamond

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I am currently using a E8500 Core2Duo + GTS250. It's getting pretty dated at this point. I want to upgrade but am hearing that the new AMD CPUs will be out in the fall?

I also heard a rumor they will be close to $1000, which is way too expensive for me. I am hoping they will be around $200. Does anyone have any information on this? Is it worth waiting a couple more months?
 
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Suferbus

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I don't think you have to wait. You can get an FX8350 for sub $200.00, and it is an awesome processor at that price point. I am running that processor in my main gaming set up and it handles everything I throw at it and then some. I recommend checking out the FX 8350 and an ASrock 990fx extreme9 mobo. ASrock has an excellent product and even better u.s. based customer service. Buy it, and if you don't like it and insist on AMD's newest platform coming out, msg me and ill buy the set up off of you. I build around 10 gaming p.c.'s a month, and that set up is my most requested so I can use it, but once you are running it, you won't want to get rid of it!! Happy Gaming!!~~~~ :)
 
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The FX 9650 steamroller is estimated to retail at $449.00. That will get you a stock base clock of 4.5 ghz with a 4.8 ghz turbo. These chips are rumored to not have as much head room for overclocking as piledriver, probably around 20%. Amd will also release the FX9650's little brother for users with a smaller budget. That base clock is rumored to be 3.8 Ghz base and 4.2 Ghz turbo, and will retail around $249.00. Hope that helps!!! ~~ Happy Gaming~~ :)
 
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looking at that new amd processor coming out, it seems like a good idea to stay as far away form amd as possible right now, unless you are going for a budget apu build. get a i5-3570k along with an asrock extreme 4 z77 motherboard and a coolermaster yper 212 evo, one deadly combo for the price, i used the preset oveclock in the asrock eufi bios and got to 4.4 ghz without a problem, then at the 4.5 setting it didnt work. but recently i was watchign an instructional video on overclocking this processor and i have it at 4.6 ghz now. but i would reccomend using the 4.4 preset as its about 10 degrees celcius cooler when using that cooler. and yes these cpus you are talking about are goign to be around 800 dollars, honestly for the same price you can get an intel hexa core for a little under 600 and a somewhat decent 2011 board for around 250. there will always be the chance that these proccessors will drop greatly but i wouldnt even waste your time. it looks like this cpu will get an 8.61 in cinebench when my current setup of the i5 @4.6 ghz gets 7.46 and is using about 100 watts less power, if you get that new cpu also you are pretty much required to get watercooling
 
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No they are not going to be $800. That does not even make any sense, no one would buy them. The fx9650 is going to retail under $500 and the one below that sub $300.00. I have done my research unlike you, and there is no reason to stay away from AMD. Please don't be bias if your going to post in a forum. Only give facts. Why do you want to give out false and biased information cjcj11? So you obviously prefer Intel...Great, that is your opinion. But you have absolutely no facts to back up telling someone to stay away from AMD.. That is just a biased, non factual based comment that needs deleted.
 
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Steamroller is 6+ months away so i wouldnt trust any price that is estimated for it
 
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It is estimated that the smaller of the two steamrollers will on par with an Core I5 3570k Ivy Bridge, whereas the FX9650 will be up around the Core I7 3770K Ivy Bridge Platform, but still around 20% behind Haswell. Now, that 20% behind Haswell is only in performance vs power, not just performance. Steamroller will perform with Haswell im certain of that, it just takes more power to do it. As long as your not worried about getting the most power possible out of lower wattage, it really dont make a noticeable difference. That is the only area Intel enthusiasts can actually claim a victory is power vs performance. Now to your question... Steamroller is basically refined Piledriver architecture, but AMD is saying a 20% to 30% decrease in power draw, lower latency, inter-process communication tweaks, and better dynamically share L2 cache. What does all that mean? Probably a little better performance on benchmarks and intense CPU applications like video editing, but in real world noticeable gameplay and general everyday tasks, I doubt a user with a good AMD motherboard, An FX 8350, and a decent GPU will be able to tell much difference at all. My advise, buy an upper end AMD AM3+ mobo, an FX 8350 and go with that for a year or two, let steamroller come out, AMD work out any bugs, and drop the price then swap up. Steamroller will be AM3+ socket anyway, so you probably won't have to upgrade mobo when you upgrade to steamroller, just flash bios....~~`happy gaming :)
 
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