if you are willing to wait a a bit, AMD are pumping out ridiculously powerful low power CPUs atm, lower power consumption, higher data and multi threading performance than intel and like half the price on average.Tazzi wrote:I was looking into a dedicated desktop, tower setup with some good graphics. But... I don't intend to do hardcore gaming on it.. so I think the NUC is actually going to be perfect.
Need to nut out how to have dual screens on current setup though. Got a BENQ monitor currently and going to get a second one. The NUC appears to have the one HDMI out, dont think my monitor has a HDMI out to connect another from it.
Their lower/mainstream end APUs will have decent graphics and very low TDP with multicore and SMT, so that will make a good system for laptops to come.
I'm personally waiting for their HEDT range called thread ripper, looking at the 16c/32T monster CPU lol Just because I can.
Or you if you wanted a real server you can wait for the server chips to come soon, 32c/64T with half a gig of cache wipes the floor 2 times over the current top of the line xeons
That would be expensive though