Bulldozer's gonna be on 'da cheapz!

[linkin]

We don't know anything yet, you shouldn't take things at face value.

Who wrote the article? Is the site reputable? What is their source of information? Is the info just copied and pasted from other sites? Where did they get it from in the first place?

Take everything those sites say with a bit (mountain) of salt, because they over-exaggerate and play down certain facts. Sites like Tom's Hardware are sponsored by Intel and thus all of their articles are biased towards them. Propaganda.

 

[wolfeking]

Propaganda.

Isnt the whole internet just one big propaganda engine?

 

[linkin]

Isnt the whole internet just one big propaganda engine?

Well 70% is porn and the rest is a mix of ads, spam, scams, criminals etc. And the last 0.01% is stuff that we use

but seriously, you have to be careful with which sites you trust. Tom's have been "bought" out - Their PSU reviews are done in a CoolerMaster lab and their articles have shown this (bias towards CM's products, commending them, when they exceed voltage spec by a larger amount than the other branded PSU they berated just before).

Try to stick to sites that are run by individuals/small groups, and not owned by a company or entity, for example Jonny Guru is (IMO) the best place for PSU reviews, along with HardwareSecrets and a few others, but not Toms' Hardware. They used to be good, but as sites get bigger and larger, things like this happen.

 

[Okedokey]

The value of the cpu was on AMDs site, where in the terms and conditions of a competition, they have to, by law, state the value of the prize. In this case, the bd chip was valued at approximately 300 USD. This, is not propaganda.

 

[linkin]

I was talking more about Tom's being propaganda than anything else, but yeah. $300, but for which CPU? The lowest end one, or the highest end one? Or somewhere in between? We just don't know yet.

 

[Aastii]

I was talking more about Tom's being propaganda than anything else, but yeah. $300, but for which CPU? The lowest end one, or the highest end one? Or somewhere in between? We just don't know yet.

read the threads and articles. This is $300 for 8150p, which are the highest Bulldozers there will be on release, yes we do know, and we know from AMD themselves

http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/processors/Pages/fx-entry.aspx

http://sites.amd.com/us/promo/processors/Pages/fx-rules.aspx

note the approx value, but they aren't going to say $300 when they are $100, or $800 each. You can take approx to be maybe $30-50 either way at the absolute most. There is of course that small chance still that they are saying approx to cover their backs, but bare in mind they won't say approx $300 when face value is actually say $600, it would look bad on there part

 

[linkin]

Cool

 

[mihir]

So now we also know the approx price from AMD themselves.
That is awesome, and three hundred for an Octo-Core, not bad at all.

 

[linkin]

So now we also know the approx price from AMD themselves.
That is awesome, and three hundred for an Octo-Core, not bad at all.

Will likely be very overpriced in Australia... Time to start saving

 

[mihir]

Will likely be very overpriced in Australia... Time to start saving

Import

Do you have Import taxes there,if not then importing a CPU won't be hard,since the shipping sure won't be expensive.

 

[Perkomate]

just make a friend in the US who lives near a microcentre, and get them to post it.

kinda sucks since i just bought SB, even though they are awesome

 

[Gooberman]

ohh a giveaway would be nice to win that

 

[Perkomate]

but of course the competition is only for U.S. and Canada. Povo bastards don't wanna pay for shipping to Australia...

 

[linkin]

but of course the competition is only for U.S. and Canada. Povo bastards don't wanna pay for shipping to Australia...

Considering they have no government owned postal service (that I know of, correct me if I'm wrong) I don't blame them. Plus they are still in debt from acquiring ATI, IIRC. But with these APU's I don't think they will be for long

 

[jonnyp11]

although this doesn't have to do with bulldozer, it's similar, both nvidia and ati/amd have plans for 28nm gpu's shipping by the end of the year, and of course that doesn't mean 28nm gfx cards this year, but soon at least, and for nvidia that means they'll be shipping Kepler out, which is their name for their next gpu core

 

[StrangleHold]

From what I understand, Nvidia 28nm. has been having problems and wont be released till the first of next year. AMD 7000 series 28nm. is still on schedule sometime before christmas.

 

[jonnyp11]

well this was off a faily new article on anandtech, and i hope they come out soon, and i win the lottery, then i could get a 8150p and a 7900 series or something, well the first that isn't less powerfull than 2 of something else for the same price, that'd be sick, then a nice mobo and psu with a sick but case and a new tv (30's of 40's inches) for both tv and using that on too.

 

[linkin]

I wouldn't be surprised if we see new GPU's before the year is up.

We are inching closer to Zambezi as well.

 

[spynoodle]

I wouldn't be surprised if we see new GPU's before the year is up.

We are inching closer to Zambezi as well.

Yeah, I can barely keep track of all the GPUs that come out. It seems like ATI and Nvidia both just pushed out the 6000 series and GTX 500 series with minimal performances increases to try to edge each other out.

CPUs, on the other hand, seem to take forever to develop.

 

[jonnyp11]

yeah, i think i said it befor but both ati/amd and nvidia both say they will be shipping the 28nm cores by the end of the year or sooner, so HD7000 and GTX600 will be at december or early 2012 most likely.