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ASRock Also Announces 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX Socket AM3+ Motherboard

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2015/03/27 10:47:20 (permalink)
http://www.techpowerup.com/211054/asrock-also-announces-970m-pro3-micro-atx-socket-am3-motherboard.html
 
priced well under $99

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    Re: ASRock Also Announces 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX Socket AM3+ Motherboard 2015/03/27 19:56:32 (permalink)
    you know with all these new AM3+ boards it kind of makes you wonder, is AMD planning something?
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    Re: ASRock Also Announces 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX Socket AM3+ Motherboard 2015/03/27 20:57:38 (permalink)
    The 970M pro3 is only a $50 board and only has pcie 2.0, the am3 970 is old as dirt....
     
    Unless you need more 4cores, go with an FM2A88X board, an A10 and overclock the heck out of it....
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    Re: ASRock Also Announces 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX Socket AM3+ Motherboard 2015/03/28 07:36:29 (permalink)
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    you know with all these new AM3+ boards it kind of makes you wonder, is AMD planning something?




    Maybe they are counting on DX12 to help with CPU sales.
    Their CPUs are already very affordable and can run a current DX11 gaming system, but with a DX12 based system in the future maybe they think the market will shift away from expensive high performance Intel CPUs and back to cheaper AMD CPUs.
     
    I believe that a CPU will no longer bottle neck your gaming PC with DX12 games, so this might level the playing field a bit and allow AMD to sell old tech.


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    Re: ASRock Also Announces 970M Pro3 Micro-ATX Socket AM3+ Motherboard 2015/03/28 19:49:07 (permalink)
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    you know with all these new AM3+ boards it kind of makes you wonder, is AMD planning something?

    Maybe they are counting on DX12 to help with CPU sales.
    Their CPUs are already very affordable and can run a current DX11 gaming system, but with a DX12 based system in the future maybe they think the market will shift away from expensive high performance Intel CPUs and back to cheaper AMD CPUs.  I believe that a CPU will no longer bottle neck your gaming PC with DX12 games, so this might level the playing field a bit and allow AMD to sell old tech.
    I agree with a slight difference: I believe DX12 renders Intel options for the same CPU core count obsolete until multi-GPU scaling goes high enough (i.e. Pascal's 8-way scaling appearing next year) to warrant the capabilities Intel over AMD (i.e. Hyper-threading), at least until Zen.
     
     
    For AMD, most gamers are not high-end and unlikely to purchase multi-GPU, so this scenario is in their favor:
     

    post edited by lehpron - 2015/03/28 20:20:33

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