AMD is releasing a 12 core CPU for $500

[CyberB0b]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1440...-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77


This is a pretty insane jump in tech.

 

[Reverend Conehead]

Can it run reasonably cool. One of the major down sides with going AMD instead of Intel was that the AMDs often ran hot. You really needed to make sure you had a good cooling system.

 

[YosemiteSam]

We are in the process of a hardware refresh for our private cloud. We are replacing five year old servers that have 12 core per CPUs with converged servers that have 24 cores per CPU. (48 threads, per CPU) Granted, those CPUs (Intel) weren't $500 / each.

I have two PCs at the house. Both are 6 core, but with hyper-threaded for 12 threads. They are Intel, but my previous PC (6-7 years ago) was AMD (FX-8320) and had 8 cores.

As for cooling. Liquid coolers are what you want. It will cool Intel and AMD all the same.

 

[CalPolyTechnique]

I’ve fine-tuned my Commodore 128 to the point it’s screaming fast; no need for the upgrade.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I’ve fine-tuned my Commodore 128 to the point it’s screaming fast; no need for the upgrade.

I'm sure 1960s NASA would be impressed.

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1440...-cores-for-499-up-to-46-ghz-pcie-40-coming-77


This is a pretty insane jump in tech.

That's impressive, AMD has really been doing a lot better in the CPU area the last couple years. If anyone remembers around 2004 give or take they had much better CPU's than Intel. Going to hold on to my i7-4790K for little bit longer as it still is a very strong CPU.

 

[CyberB0b]

Can it run reasonably cool. One of the major down sides with going AMD instead of Intel was that the AMDs often ran hot. You really needed to make sure you had a good cooling system.

It comes with a stock cooler that is adequate. I never have temp issues with my 2700x and stock cooling.

 

[Daillest88]

That's impressive, AMD has really been doing a lot better in the CPU area the last couple years. If anyone remembers around 2004 give or take they had much better CPU's than Intel. Going to hold on to my i7-4790K for little bit longer as it still is a very strong CPU.

Oh yea I remember that. AMD was better around than. Had a lot of friends get athlon instead of intel

 

[JohnnyTheFox]

Oh yea I remember that. AMD was better around than. Had a lot of friends get athlon instead of intel

Yes they were, when they released the Athlon 64's they were king of the hill. I then remember the Intel Sandy Bridge 2600K's killing everything at the time. I was jealous.

 

[YosemiteSam]

I had switched to Athlon too. When Intel got better, I switched back, but they where using plastic to hold their CPU heatsink / fans on switch kept breaking or just flat out wouldn't hold the heatsink / fan on the CPU causing it to overheat.

At that point, I went back to AMD just for the fact that there clamps where metal and didn't fall off. While they weren't the fastest, they were plenty fast though they did make the room a tad warmer.

I ended up replacing a fan with a liquid cooler and that made all the difference in the world. I used AMD until I switched to the Intel core i7 6800k. That is what's in my primary PC now, though I recently built up another PC for my ham radio stuff. It's a newer version of the core 5i, (Intel Core i5-8500 Coffee Lake) but it has basically has close to same perforce as as my older 6800k has now except at half the price. (Why is the 6800k still $400+ if that is the case!??!)