CaptainTom
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Well, five bucks is five bucks. But the numbers I ran don't suggest that is the actuality of the situation. Keep in mind, the numbers I ran, were for an obscene amount of gaming. So, the truth is, the answer is likely more than 5 dollars, but somewhat less than the 46 I came up with.
In all this excitement, what everybody seems to have forgotten is that AMD's, "bang for the buck", was coming largely from obsolete (?) processes, and from already bought and paid for fabs. (fell free the fact check that). So, when you figure in the cost of the equipment necessary to grow chips at perhaps 14nm or less, those savings from buying AMD could very well, to a large extent,. evaporate.
And like I keep repeating, but you people keep failing to comprehend, the extreme gaming community is but a drop in the CPU purchase dollar bucket. All Intel is doing is back and forth R & D, turning Zeon core breakthroughs into desktop CPUs.
Every car maker at one point or another has had a racing programs. At some point in the 60's or 70's, Pontiac said, "screw it, we're not going to spend all this money on promotion", and dropped out. Well, they still lasted more than another half century, and I honestly don't think not being involver with NASCAR, was the company's death knell anyway. More than likely, too many other companies made more appealing. But here in 2016, those big, powerful, i7 desktop chips, are the, "race car for computer nerds", and not a whole heck of a lot more than that...
OH, and BTW, this "tool" has his electric bill sitting not 20 feet away, in case you feel like asking me any stupid questions.
LOL dude don't unpack your baggage on me. I said HE was a tool, not you lol. You actually bothered to admit that at most you would save $10 - $20 a year.
Not sure what you are trying to say with your car analogy. If you look at my posts it's pretty obvious I think Intel is continuing to push the envelope, so don't give me the whole "Apex Hyper-Car" analogy because I already believe in it. Furthermore I OBVIOUSLY understand that AMD's recent cheapness came from using bargain-bin 32 and 28nm processes.
But on that Hyper-car analogy. AMD has a 32-core Uber-Zen coming called "Naples". Intel's Skylake-E Xeon will be 28-Core, and recent leaks show a 95w Zen 8-Core beating Intel's 140w 8-core Broadwell-E. Don't kid yourself, AMD is gunning big this time.