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[pedrothelion]

The FX 6300 looks like it will be great for budget gaming rig. It drubs the i3 3220 (which is roughly the same price) in nearly every benchmark I've seen thus far.

 

[KojiKnight]

An AMD chip worth upgrading to? I'll keep an eye out... my unlocked 3x Phenom 2 (now a 4x) is still doing me pretty good, but in the next year or so I'll be looking into such an upgrade. I lost the extra back plate to my water cooler for Intel chips, so I'd much prefer to upgrade to AMD if a decent enough one comes about.

 

[MCD]

How does it compare to AMD Phenom II X6 1100T?

 

[aeolist]

AMD is back? I won't habeeb it.

It's better than Bulldozer but it's still far worse single-threaded performance compared to Sandy Bridge, and forget about IVB. Games performance is still worse and power consumption is still high.

They're not hitting 20nm until 2014, at which point Intel will have released 14nm silicon with their next major architecture change in the pipeline and the gap will likely have widened.

I want AMD to succeed but this pace is not working for them, they're not getting into new markets aggressively enough, and they're slashing their engineering workforce.

I'm sure they'll survive the next few years but I doubt we'll see them as a big player in the performance x86 space again.

 

[DieH@rd]

Vishera looks to be a good product, but my quad Phenom II is serving me well. I will wait until Steamroller before thinking about upgrade.

 

[catmincer]

Vishera looks to be a good product, but my quad Phenom II is serving me well. I will wait until Steamroller before thinking about upgrade.

Is Steamroller expected to be AM3+?

 

[specialguy]

How does it compare to AMD Phenom II X6 1100T?

It's actually the first AMD chip to be clearly better.

 

[SniperHunter]

It's actually the first AMD chip to be clearly better.

Is this CPU compatible with those motherboards? I have a 1055t, its a bad CPU for gaming. I want to replace it...

 

[thuway]

Does this spell good news for our Next-Gen consoles or are still locked in Jaguar land?