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mayb i'm retarded but isn't Intel's support for more PCIe bandwidth going to dominate AMD regardless of their upcoming CPU releases? I see nothing from AMD in regards to support for high end 2/3-way video card systems; right?
I too want to buy a new AM3+ mobo, but the temptation to join the darkside is growing. New 4core i7 at $300, 2011 chipset wth support for more video card bandwidth == WIN!
I think it would be wise for them to do an FX refresh even if they also release gen 2 FX on its own socket. I imagine that even if there was no performance boost but they do manage to cut down power consumption by this claimed 35% people would be ALOT happier about the FX series. I will say that if they do move to a new platform regardless of the bad rep that might earn them with some current owners, good for them. Sometimes you just have to let some ideas die to move onto better ones. Intels rapid move from platform to platform has regularly shown a pretty good performance increase. AMD gen to gen is much smaller but they drag a platform until its been dead for ages.
can some1 set me straight on this pls.... According to the stats of the LGA2011 platform it would be the strongest supporting platform for a SLI/crossfire PICe 3.0 setup. However further reading suggest that the current 2011 processors dont actually have full support for dual/3way video card setups... so it sort of seems that upgrading to the lga2011 just to take full advantage of 2x/3x video cards would be a waste. Does the lga2011 processors take more advantage of the 40x channels for pcie? does the 40channels factor in to better performance of 2/3 video cards? thoughts on the best platform with dual/triple video card setups in mind?
To be honest you do have a point take when AMD went from Socket A to 754/939 A64 it was the best move they ever did and made them the top CPU to own then the crappy AM2/+ move which had no gain as much at first didn't do them any favours maybe its time they did do a new socket refresh fair enough AM3 is technically a new one but maybe they should look at from INTEL's point of view and create a new one and look at breaking that performance curse.
I am not sure how much I trust the road map considering the 28 NM issue at global.