AMD CPU FX-8320 Vishera Socket AM3+ $166 + FS @Amazon

Quote from Staticks : Case in point: http://www.rte.ie/news/2012/1105/...iness.html EDIT: Also, Android growing, Apple shrinking; http://www.forbes.com/sites/larry...et-market/

It does not help the discussion if we each start grabbing random internet articles by authors who may or may not know how to interpret things either.

You just gave a perfect example of that. I talked about iPad, so you pulled an article talking about Android tablets overtaking Apple when the research the author used was regarding Android devices in general- including phones. He misused the analysis.

Quote from Staticks : Just a little friendly tip: You might personally think making one-line pejorative statements make you sound cool and authoritative, but it's not a particularly effective method of argumentation.

That was a matter of fact. What other points? All the talk regarding consoles was one point.

Would you guys get a room?

Was 161.99 on BF, but I guess this works?

Quote from plumbum : What are some of the better Oc'ing mobos for this chip?

I think the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 is good OC'ing mobo. It's the one I use. It supports AMD Crossfire but not Nvidia SLI. You'll need a 990 for that, which is more.

Lucky I needed a new cpu today, bought one, thanks OP.

Quote from Castaa : I think the Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3 is good OC'ing mobo. It's the one I use. It supports AMD Crossfire but not Nvidia SLI. You'll need a 990 for that, which is more.

Quote from plumbum : What are some of the better Oc'ing mobos for this chip?

Personally, I like the Gigabyte GA-990XFA-UD3. I have one and it performs like a champ!

Soar

Great price! I bought this a few week's ago for 199.00 @ Frys...upgraded from 8150. There is a good review on Newegg's site about this processor and the differences.

Quote from soarwitheagles : Personally, I like the Gigabyte GA-990XFA-UD3. I have one and it performs like a champ! Soar

How would the Gigabyte compare to this Asus? ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0

Can't decide if I should buy this or wait for a deal for 3570k that I missed over black friday

Tough one

Quote from plumbum : How would the Gigabyte compare to this Asus? ASUS M5A99X EVO R2.0

plumbum, they both are good motherboards, but I still prefer the Gigabyte over the ASUS.

Soar

Quote from sklar : The other 32,000 companies that make cpu's, and the ones that'd jump into the business if Intel raised prices, not to mention the people who are used to buying these products at a particular price point and would stop buying them at an elevated level?

That worked awesome with hard drives.

Great price for processor with 8 cores. Much better price/performance compared to Intel Processor.

Quote from SaneLemming : That worked awesome with hard drives.

Actually it did. Sales slacked off significantly, and the price of SSD's dropped and sales of those picked up.

Other companies didn't jump into the business, however, because it was a temporary issue due to a flooding condition that obviously wasn't going to be an ongoing problem for 10-20 years...

The first PC I owned used a AMD 386 DX-40 chip and it kicked ass over the Intel 386-33!
-old fart