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On Saturday, June 3, 2017 at 11:14:09 AM UTC+8, Flasherly wrote:
Ordered and got this earlier in the week -
AMD FX-8300 Vishera 8-Core 3.3 GHz (4GHz Turbo) Socket AM3+ 95W
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[Borderline sale pricing comparatively to an E-series, "energy
efficient" and also 95-watt model for $40 more.]
Let me double-check the math:
$2000/$89.99 means 22 processors equals 178 cores.

Also heard that AMD dropped the price of R7. Wonder why?

It's a price war.

https://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer...whitehaven-cpu

But it's not going to magically revive the desktop business.

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The 18-core for $2000 isn't good value, because
it's more suited to commercial server applications,
than to a desktop. Your 7ZIP compression run will go
faster, but the decompression step will be as slow
as ever. If you're the kind of person who leaves
four videos rendering in the background, then it'll be
a win for you.

If you're just a gamer, not so much. I'm not aware of
any games designed for that many cores. Maybe Fritz Chess
can scale to use them, but not much else.

What the 18-core processor will be doing, is a lot
of benchmarks. Until the thrill wears off.

Paul