AMD preparing 5GHZ CPU?

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tajoh111-

I'm not ignoring anything. As I said some folks are already running 5.0 GHz. FX-8350s on existing high end AM3+ mobos. You're assuming that these 5.0 GHz. CPUs which no one knows if they will even be released or how they originate - will consume more power than current FX-8350's running 4.7-4.8 GHz. without issue. The 5.0 GHz. chips may not draw any significant increase in power, we just don't know. I have run my current FX-8350 @ 5.1 GHz. but it was not P95 stable so I throttled it back.

BTW you're hi-jacking this thread with nonsense about AMD sales... Their brand ain't in the gutter with them winning the contract for the next Xbox, PS4 and Wii consoles. The AMD brand is doing just fine, thank you. AMD is having no problem selling Vishera based FX chips as they are excellent performing CPUs at a great price.

AMD doesn't need more cores at all, but Intel could use a few more. AMD needs better front end schedulers and Steamroller will bring that before you know it. Hating on AMD is wasted energy as they just continue to crank out better laptop APUs, desktop APUs, low power consumption server APUs/CPUs with more goodies on the way. That discussion however is for another thread, not this one.