TomsHardware - We were impressed enough with Intel’s Sandy Bridge architecture that we awarded the Core i5-2500K our coveted Recommended Buy award. Just north of $200, that’s a solid value. But it’s not Intel’s flagship. That honor goes to the new Core i7-990X Extreme.
A Czech publication has published the first benchmark scores which compare AMD's upcoming high-performance Bulldozer FX CPUs with Intel's current flagship, the six-core Core i7-990X reports Soft-pedia today.
Not looking too good, but I think AMD can and will have better performing chips by 2012. This is way too early to make any sort of conclusion.
Friggin' Sandy Bridge, the golden child. My Westmere brothers and I are the biggest, baddest PC processors on the planet, and somehow, she still gets all the glory. Everybody is all, "Sandy this, Sandy that," even though she's slower than us. I say: if being second-rate and cheap were the keys to success in the world, everybody would be driving a Kia.
Well, look at the golden child now, hiding in inventory while her motherboards get replaced. Such a sad sight. People forget that "proven technology" isn't just a euphemism for old, unwanted junk. My ICH10R south bridge may be a little seasoned, but at least it didn't come out of the chute with a congenital defect. Plus, any little problems were ironed out several steppings ago.
There has been a lot of news about the all new processors that Intel has been rolling out. We haven't heard anything about LGA 1366 in quite a while. With rumors of it being discontinued stretching as far as over a year ago, it makes you wonder... is the Intel LGA 1366 Socket still a good buy?
At least you do not have to worry about the SATA being messed up on these. =) And there are plenty chipset offerings with support for USB3 and new new SATA
Yeah if you're still looking at the very very high end then 1366 is the only platform at the moment. Hexacores, dual Xeons, 24GB of RAM, etc.. 1156 only has 16 lanes of PCIe bandwidth as well and some people have multiple (4+) PCIe cards.
