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If you consider this awesome:
Having lower IPC performance than your previous gen architecture.
Having "8 cores", 2 billion transistors and a 315mm2 die on a 32nm process while the Phenom II X6 "thuban" 1100T only has 6 cores, 904 million transistors on a 45nm process and yet the 1100T...
Dear AMD,
I sincerely want to support your company as much as I can afford to, but I simply cannot justify or rationalize paying more for a chip that performs worse, uses more electricity and runs hotter than previous generation chips. I plan on building a gaming machine with the A8-3870K when...