And ?

I'm still running 7 ,but I don't get any updates that botch mine up I'm lucky to get any .

 

I take it you block all windows updates then??

 

My Win7 box hadnt been modded since I built it in 2008 (other than a HDD failure and replacement) and had a genuine licence I paid full price for; yet Micro****e suddenly decided my licence wasnt valid back in the spring; I had to run Anti-WAT to get my PC back. The same thing happened to my sister a month later, and her PC hadnt had a replacement part AT ALL, the damn thing was only a year old, and again, had a genuine license.

As I said, I havent been following the promises. but they hyped and failed to meet expectations on the last two major launches, and as I said, they need to be WELL ahead of current INTEL offerings, because I can guarantee, as soon as they are close to being released, INTEL will launch something just as fast, if not faster.

 

As for double the cores, 8 isnt double, I own a 6 core AMD CPU, so it is only incremental.

 

Even clock speed isnt a good indicator, the chips works differently internally, so clock speed is only an indication, not proof. They also need to deal with the power requirements, speed for speed INTELs use far less power right now.

 

Another problem is, as they work differently, different speed tests will give different results, as will real life tests; I play Lord of the Rings Online, and I am not suffering single core overloads on my old 1090T the way many INTEL i7 users report, so the AMD chip handles the game better, even though it is much older and less powerful overall.

 

I'm well aware of all this, as I design HPC systems.

I'm just saying you might well be pleasantly surprised.

Unless you need something off that disk, chuck it and get a new one.

 

an HD that starts putting out errors never stops, it's just an early warning it's going to go pop.

Unless you need something off that disk, chuck it and get a new one.

 

an HD that starts putting out errors never stops, it's just an early warning it's going to go pop.

 

He is right, warnings, then recovery, just means problems are around the corner.

I take it you block all windows updates then??

 

My Win7 box hadnt been modded since I built it in 2008 (other than a HDD failure and replacement) and had a genuine licence I paid full price for; yet Micro****e suddenly decided my licence wasnt valid back in the spring; I had to run Anti-WAT to get my PC back. The same thing happened to my sister a month later, and her PC hadnt had a replacement part AT ALL, the damn thing was only a year old, and again, had a genuine license.

I've tried to get updates on 7, which MS tells me is Genuine etc, but hours later it's still looking. i prefer to check out Windows updates ( have done so since I had a limited download ) to see what I might need , and note which updates MS wants to inflict on me, so that if PC locks up ( and I've had it on XP, so what's to stop it happening on 7), I can take them off one at a time to find the one that's causing the problem.

Edited 18 January, 20179 yr by VWD