Exactly. Unless if AMD have some actual design talent to take this architecture forward and produce a generation or two after that, any gains made will be short lived.
That too. This time Intel have been complacent in their designs a bit, but not awful.
FTFY
More credit has to be given to AMD and Intel Isreal. AMD because K8 was good in its own right, and Intel Isreal because Core was such a gamechanger. Even with its superior design, Intel Isreal had to fight tooth and nail with upper management to get approval.
That's because the initial Core architecture was basically a rework of Tualatin Pentium III (mobile version). Upper management were unwilling to go back to what they saw as an obsolescent design.
What would be a good price in your opinion?
I'd love those prices. Would probably get me to build a second PC.
Zen supposedly scales well from larger powerful chips down to smaller energy efficient ones.
This is a bit of revisionist history. Netburst was designed to hit high GHz above all else. Intel expected the architecture to reach 8-10 GHz. Nobody foresaw the leakage problems they'd hit as transistors got smaller and clockspeeds increased.
Refer to page 1/2, where I was also quite cranky replying to the same comment.
I'm in the same boat. My 2500k is at 4.5, but it's really showing it's age at this point.
