AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Martini1991 · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:08

There was definitely something wrong with that stream.

davieg · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:11

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
I have not seen Gibbo do one of this pre-release threads yet either.

Nah hes too busy stood at the warehouse door trying to turn the delivery of 8150's around to wherever they came from.

Subliminal Aura · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:14

Martini1991 said:
There was definitely something wrong with that stream.
Cinebench for an FX8150 at stock (3.6GHZ) is 1.03, which is the same as the Phenom II 965.

Defiantly but the comments were good for lols

davieg said:
Nah hes too busy stood at the warehouse door trying to turn the delivery of 8150's around to wherever they came from.

Don't think it's that bad...

raw compute / 2 core gaming - avoid.

Video encoding - looks promising - it might just turn up trumps

Power consumption sucks at 1.21 Jiggawatts though

davieg · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:16

Subliminal Aura said:
Power consumption sucks at 1.21 Jiggawatts though

So the MSI PSU calculator was correct then when you select the 8150 on their calculations then.

http://www.msi.com/service/power-supply-calculator/

Choose the bottom CPU code the WK44 one I think

davieg · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:18

Grr why do i press quote rather than edit, soz ignore.

Subliminal Aura · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:18

davieg said:
So the MSI PSU calculator was correct then when you select the 8150 on their calculations then.

http://www.msi.com/service/power-supply-calculator/

pmsl !

gurusan · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:32

dunno if anyone is on OCN but JF-AMD is over there telling people not to pay attention to leaked benchmarks.

Surprise surprise.

Hotwired · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:34

Tell him to post up some real ones

Final8y · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:40

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
My friend has the motherboard they are using. The slots of the same channel have the same colour.

gurusan said:
Honestly, I've never seen mobo ram slots of the same channel be different colours.

There is confusion of definition.

I just looked at the PDF of that mobo.

[A1 A2 2/colours channel A] [B1 B2 2/colours channel B] channel A channel B.

A single channel is 2 colours, hence that mobo pic was in single channel.

On a Tipple channel mobo you get 2 colours per channel still, A B C.

manveruppd · 10 Oct 2011 at 02:49

davieg said:
So the MSI PSU calculator was correct then when you select the 8150 on their calculations then.

http://www.msi.com/service/power-supply-calculator/

Choose the bottom CPU code the WK44 one I think

WTF!!

Tried it 5' ago and the number's STILL going up! Up to 100KW now and rising!

hedgey · 10 Oct 2011 at 05:44

its slower per thread than current gen because the pipeline is longer. this is obvious. they needed speed to get around this and didnt get the yields. this is bad news for everyone.

Tute · 10 Oct 2011 at 08:47

Student loan is in so i'm good to go. Ball's in your court AMD - but then there aren't even any BD mITX motherboards yet so I might be forced to go SB.

Sin_Chase · 10 Oct 2011 at 08:56

Unless some miracle is going to occur and BD is actually much better than seen so far I say SB it up. Let BD mature, see how it stacks up versus Ivybridge in 2012 and consider it for your next upgrade.

Tute · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:06

I'm coming to the realisation that I am going to be buying SB. I just guess that i've waited all this time, I may as well see it out to the very end.

But as said, i'm at the mercy of the motherboard companies - we might have an LGA1366 situation occuring in that you just can't get the power regulation circuitry onto mini-ITX, in which case the decision is already made for me.

Sin_Chase · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:13

Yeah might as well wait and see what is what. I think best case is that the first few weeks of launch are going to be BIOS/Software updates ahoy to get things stable/working properly.

Tute · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:25

I think that's my best chance - hope for AM3 support on either the J&W 890GX or the Asus M4A88T-I.

qbazdz · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:30

Prepare to be Bulldozered!

gareth170 · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:31

i just hope it'll be under £220 @ ocuk.....

JamesM · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:43

I'm just confused, BD is AM3+ and AMD says it won't work on AM3 motherboards yet Asus are saying that it will work on their Crosshair IV Formula AM3 motherboard, which there is a bios update for but whether it will actually work well or not I have no idea?

I'm solely a gamer so do I wait and see firstly how good BD is and then pray it works on my current motherboard or do I just take advantage of the 2500k in Today's only deal and head down the SB route?

d_brennen · 10 Oct 2011 at 09:43

gareth170 said:
i just hope it'll be under £220 @ ocuk.....

Why? Your 1090t looks to be a better all round chip, 6 proper cores vs 8 units sharing FPUs

If these benchmarks are real and BD sucks this bad I amazed no one at AMD hit the abort button. Llano is brilliant, Brazos too, it looks like AMD can't make enough of them. BD? They shouldn't bother