drescherjm
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without gimping PCI lanes
Will Zen on AM4 have more than 28 PCIe lanes?
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without gimping PCI lanes
With the Kaby Lake leaks showing that its a huge DUD. This is AMD's chance to really hit the ground running. Will hey? Who knows, but they have a REALLY Good chance too.
Will Zen on AM4 have more than 28 PCIe lanes?
Im getting excited as there are two days until AMD has it's big event to unveil the chip officially supposedly.
I am on track for picking up a 8 or even a 16 core this Jan or whenever pending the price isn't too bad.
Do you need that many cores?
Nope not in the least bit. Gonna buy it anyways (if price is right). Not about need here. Nope not at all.
Just want to help a corporation that doesn't care one whit about you....got it.
Will Zen on AM4 have more than 28 PCIe lanes?
No. Here is the platform. The chipset provides 4, 6 and 8 PCIe 2.0 lanes as well.
I could have sworn officially they have said you could run 2 GPUs at x16 (i.e. 32 lanes for just the gpus).
They could have been talking about their server platform. There is way more pins on that one..
I'm going to hold off and see what Zen can do first.
I don't necessarily need a CPU upgrade since my current setup is getting the job done adequately, but my plan is to transition to a next gen GPU, then determine which CPU upgrade path gives the best bang for the buck (regardless of brand) when Zen has been out for around six months.
Last week or so AMD stock was about $8.5. It's at $10.61 now. I would have to say the chip is not going to fail, but rather be pretty darn good. After Tuesday is over I am curious what the stock will be then.
AMD stock was down to $2 a share. I wish I had bought a grand worth then.
Actually we're free to do whatever we want to in that department.You cant base the stock on that. Look at the stock up to Bulldozer launch.
Last week or so AMD stock was about $8.5. It's at $10.61 now. I would have to say the chip is not going to fail, but rather be pretty darn good. After Tuesday is over I am curious what the stock will be then.
AMD stock was down to $2 a share. I wish I had bought a grand worth then.
I'm a poor guy, so I only got $200 worth when it was at $2.50. Perhaps it will end up financing a Zen build
I could have sworn officially they have said you could run 2 GPUs at x16 (i.e. 32 lanes for just the gpus).
AMD X370 For Enthusiast AM4 Motherboards:
First up, we have X370, a high-end chipset for overclockers and tweakers who need robust platforms. This chip provides the ultimate low-level control to its users and delivers ultimate graphics card bandwidth. By bandwidth, AMD is referring to max PCI-Express lanes as this is the only chip in the stack that supports multi-GPU functionality. The chipset supports both, CFX (CrossFire) and SLI.
AMD has mentioned two full x16 (Gen3) lanes for GPUs. AIBs can add additional lanes through a PLX chip but that would add to the cost. X370 features full overclocking support with a very sophisticated GUI that will allow the best overclock tools and experiences. Since all AM4 CPUs have an unlocked multiplier, record breakers will definitely put X370 boards to the test on liquid and LN2 setups.
Yeah he is stuck on the Fm3 pic from benchlife..
http://wccftech.com/amd-x370-chipset-am4-summit-ridge-processors/
Only if it's a reasonable upgrade from my 2500k and not priced through the goddamn roof like most of intel's products these days. I almost bit on a recently slew of decently priced 6700k(s), but I decided to see what they have to offer in hopes of driving prices even lower. If I had to bet on history, it'd be against AMD, but they've made a lot of positive progress as of late and I love a good underdog story(along with affordable components).
I love it when people personify businesses. AMD isn't some virtuous underdog facing an evil giant. The fact is that there are plenty of affordable Intel CPUs and plenty of them with stratospheric prices. AMD would charge you $1,700+ for their top end processor if they thought anyone would buy it. The original FX series CPUs cost just as much as the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPUs did. I don't hate exotic sports cars just because I can't afford to buy one.
I love it when people personify businesses. AMD isn't some virtuous underdog facing an evil giant. The fact is that there are plenty of affordable Intel CPUs and plenty of them with stratospheric prices. AMD would charge you $1,700+ for their top end processor if they thought anyone would buy it. The original FX series CPUs cost just as much as the Pentium 4 Extreme Edition CPUs did. I don't hate exotic sports cars just because I can't afford to buy one.
AMD is the plucky underdog fighting the huge Intel/Nvidia behemoth! The evil team green/blue only wants to crush you, kick your puppy and steal your lunch money. Team red on the other hand, really cares about YOU as a person. They only want your happiness, world peace and free cookies for everyone! If you don't agree, you're clearly a shill for the bad guys.
Dont tell me your counter is wccftech
Nice post, really, concise and to the point? I guess there's too much fanboyism in the world today for anyone to read something and not assert their own bias into the premise. People are weird man, who gives half a shit what company you buy from as long as it's the best for you. If you're fine with being raked over the coals because there's no competition then more power to you, but I think you're not thinking clearly if you don't think healthy competition is vital to consumers. I should choose some arbitrary company to foist up and propagate so I can be a fan boy. There's only one Banana, and it's Dole banana's. Del Monte had a shit crop this past season and I'll never buy Del Monte Bananas again, I get full with Dole. T
It is not a counter you post irrelevant information all the time. There is nothing that is released by AMD that would hold true to FM3 so far you will get different designations different from when FM3 was still on the table thus far there are 3 different ranges in features let alone different features between AIB.per segment there is nothing set in stone until they release their versions of X370 B350 and A320.
Should be shitloads cheaper platform than Intel's X99 and the likes.X370 board, PCB only. Its a single x16 3.0 here. And very limited I/O. Looks to be 3 x1 and 1 x4 PCIe 2.0.
Should be shitloads cheaper platform than Intel's X99 and the likes.
It won't hurt to wait a bit longer after waiting for so long for AMD to produce something as good as the Phenom II.
There could well be defects/flaws in the initial Zen release fixed by later revisions so it might not pay to be an early adopter.
We're just now starting to see certain software which has SE 4.1/4.2 as a mandatory requirement - it looks like I've finally come to the end of the road.
My ancient 955 is the earlier C2 revision with the wonky memory controller and a AM3 board so I've nowhere to go there! ='(
Given how CPU speeds seem to hit a bit of a wall...an 8 core / 16 threaded model should be able to provide many years of service.
It'll be quite exciting to see this level of improvement:
http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-6700K-vs-AMD-Phenom-II-X4-955/3502vs2935
It'll be a bit like when I replaced an old Pentium 4 for the Phenom 955 making SupCom playable =D