Bulldozer

well, we can only hope. They are the only mainstream competition for intel, so I doubt the government will let them just go out (sets up a monopoly situation).
 
So I've been waiting for nothing??? Guess it's time to start building the SB i5 2500K. Oh BTW great video of the AMD chip hehe.....:D
 
according to that it actually games a little (like 3% a most) better than a 2600k @ stock settings. That is useful info.
 
wolfeking said:
Overkill. Its just AMDs Netburst. They will come back around soon.
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Tired of waiting. Been using AMD since the K6. They were kicking with the Athlon/Athlon XP/Athlon 64. The frist Phenom was a flop. The Phenom II was a big improvement and thought they were back on track. But after waiting for the Zambezi and end up getting this. For the time they have been developing this there should have been no bugs. Its nothing but Phenom I all over again.

I think what happen was, AMD just could not make a processor, they bought out NexGen. The NexGen people developed the K6. Which the Athlon/Athlon XP and Athlon 64 were all updated versions of the K6. Probably by the time the Athlon 64 came out all the NexGen people were gone.

What do you have left? They came out with the Phenom I. Was nothing but four Athlon 64 Brisbane cores on a die with L3 cache. Really took a brain drain to come up with that. They were on the line so they really put some in research and development to salvage the Phenom and released the Phenom II, which was a good processor. Then they come up with this. Phenom I all over again. Dont really feel like waiting on them any longer. AMD already said that Piledriver is just suppost to be 10% faster, not going to cut it.

Dont like Intel, but atleast they recovered from the netburst. But it looks like I'm heading to go Intel. Might stick with AMD for awhile if I can get a FX 6100 (Dirt Cheap).

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I'm just pretty pissed off right now. Might give it a week or two with bios and windows updates it might be half ass.
 
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linkin said:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...sor-vs-core-i7-2600k-review-introduction.html

Notice how these guys use an ASRock 990FX board, with the right BIOS for BD support, using 1866Mhz RAM instead of 1333MHz (and CAS9 1333MHz at that! sloooow), that it seems to do better in benchmarks? Notice how it's also not an ES CPU like in the HardwareCanucks review and actually lists a stepping/revision?

A little variety in reviews can make all the difference...
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going by that review i'd take the 8150 over the 2600k for the money, i want to see the same thing but go to the 8120 and the i5 2500k and overclock them both as much as you can safely on the stock cooler since the 8120 is supposed to be almost the same as the 8150 other than the clocks.
 
It seems to be for gamers, only, if it performs well in games but not anything else. Like I said, until programs utilize all 8 cores, the i7s will win in all other applications.

And wow, 8150 sold out on newegg.
 
yoo bad that it actually performs worse in several games than the 1100t or even the 975be, so that argument can't even really be made :( although it's still fast enough that no matter what you'll be getting over 70fps min when it's maxing out, but the i7's wher hitting in the 130's or more when it was doing that on a few games, but then again on deus ex, shogun 2, and f3 or whatever it had the highest scores.
 
linkin said:
http://www.hardwareheaven.com/revie...sor-vs-core-i7-2600k-review-introduction.html

Notice how these guys use an ASRock 990FX board, with the right BIOS for BD support, using 1866Mhz RAM instead of 1333MHz (and CAS9 1333MHz at that! sloooow), that it seems to do better in benchmarks? Notice how it's also not an ES CPU like in the HardwareCanucks review and actually lists a stepping/revision?

A little variety in reviews can make all the difference...
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So are you saying that all the other reviews are biased towards Intel due to their lack of optimization, or that the hardwareheaven review is biased towards AMD? If It's the former, then maybe Bulldozer is much better than we all originally thought.
 
BurningSkyline said:
Minus the stick with part, I have a E5200 right now. I was really hoping these Hex-cores would be good competition for the 2500j.
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Was hoping the FX 6100 would be a sweet spot. Cause what really uses 8 cores. Overclock it and would bench just as good as a 8 in most. But after these released benchmarks I'm in a burn the house down mode. lol
 
spynoodle said:
So are you saying that all the other reviews are biased towards Intel due to their lack of optimization, or that the hardwareheaven review is biased towards AMD? If It's the former, then maybe Bulldozer is much better than we all originally thought.
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No, I'm just saying that CHV, while being a flagship board, might not be the best choice to do all reviews on.

As I said, a little variety goes a long way.

The fact that some sites tested BD with 1333MHz 9-9-9-27 memory is appalling as well, the boards and CPU support 1866MHz for Christ's sake. Why would you test with slow memory like that? Especially in synthetic benchmarks where it really shows the most difference. I'm keen to know what they tested the Intel systems with regarding memory, I'd be mad as hell if they tested 1333Mhz CAS9 against 2133MHz CAS9.
 
If I were you Linkin I would look at the AMD FX-6100 Six-Core Processor. The Zambezi 8-Core just looks like a power hungry beast.

I am wondering what the Quad-Core Zambezi Processors are going to be like.
 
i say to get that xxmorpheus guy who has a thread about getting over 4.9ghz on his liquid cooled 8150 to run some benches on it then bigfella to run the same benches then we compare ourselves and see how far they apart. but make sure to see their actual full specs and all too not just the numbers alone so we have the whole picture.
 
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Please, enough with those hitler videos already :rolleyes:

Any benches for the Hex-Cores floating around? Hell, even the quads? Since the quads are so Cheap I'm curious how they do against the SB i3 chips.
 
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