I've got the itch.
First, is AMD essentially dead? The APU stuff looks neat and I'm sure will have a long successful life, but I'm much more interested in the best of the best by way of bruteforce V12/Hemi processing, both single and multicore.
Second, assuming Intel is the default upgrade, is there a new gen or revision on the horizon (6ish months, so christmas 2014) that would make sense to wait for?
No real price limit, but no $$$extreme$$$ CPUs. I'd prefer to reuse existing components, so this is basically a MB/CPU swap. I don't overclock (not interested) and while my 9590 does everything I throw at it admirably, I still want more. Shaving a minute off a Handbrake encode is worth the $. No problem with $2011$ either if that's a boost over ¢1150¢. Had a 3820 which semi-side-graded into the 8350, into the 9590.
Also, I hackintosh a lot and FX just isn't cutting it (but huge props to the amd osx86rs who've been making it work!).
First, is AMD essentially dead? The APU stuff looks neat and I'm sure will have a long successful life, but I'm much more interested in the best of the best by way of bruteforce V12/Hemi processing, both single and multicore.
Second, assuming Intel is the default upgrade, is there a new gen or revision on the horizon (6ish months, so christmas 2014) that would make sense to wait for?
No real price limit, but no $$$extreme$$$ CPUs. I'd prefer to reuse existing components, so this is basically a MB/CPU swap. I don't overclock (not interested) and while my 9590 does everything I throw at it admirably, I still want more. Shaving a minute off a Handbrake encode is worth the $. No problem with $2011$ either if that's a boost over ¢1150¢. Had a 3820 which semi-side-graded into the 8350, into the 9590.
Also, I hackintosh a lot and FX just isn't cutting it (but huge props to the amd osx86rs who've been making it work!).
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