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Who's going to buy the BullDozer?

Not any time soon. Going to give it at least a month so people get a full understanding of its ups and downs and if people still think its terrible after the month then no I will wait for the next big thing.
 
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I might,all i want it for is video editing/encoding,not interested in games.

Just trying to work out how much better it is over my 1090t.
 
Some tests are lower is better, but the CPU is utter crap at the end of the day and its per core performance is worse than the Phenoms.
 
stulid said:
Some tests are lower is better, but the CPU is utter crap at the end of the day and its per core performance is worse than the Phenoms.
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It's true the chips not great, but remember it's a new architecture.

Most if not all software will not be optimised for BD. For example Visual Studio 2010 service pack 1 was released in March and had support for BD instructions, however it still needs another release for the compiler to be optimised for it's floating point. You can think of the new architecture similar to Athlon 64 bit back in 2005, then almost no one was making 64bit drivers! Time advances and almost all hardware has 32bit and 64bit support now, however it took 4-5 years to really get there!

In a few years software should become more optimised for BD, but few years is a very long time for people to wait.

I will likely buy one, as I want multi-core for some software I'm developing, and as I'm using Visual Studio 2010 hopefully my own software will be more optimised for it.
 
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Wow, the comparison between the two is shocking. When you bring something new out it's meant to be faster than it predecessor.
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+1 !

i had the money for a 2500k setup a while ago and been as i already had a AM3+ motherboard due to mine breaking and it made sense to wait incase Bulldozer was going to be good. which it clearly isnt.

and now when i dont have the money i now have to save like mad for a 2500k setup as im desperate for an upgrade on my aging Athlon X4

AMD will have definatley boosted intels sales now !
 
I'm buying in December, so i wasn't waiting for BD as such but had it been of interest i may have bought it.

Its not of interest, unless they knock at least £50 off the price.
 
really wouldnt suprise me also if the prices for sandybridge went either up or down really.

intel has two options.
kick amd while its down and lower the price of sandybridge and steal even more sales.

or they realise that BD is a flop and put the prices up in order to make more money out of amd's mistake.
 
Going to wait until myself, was planning to upgrade from a 1090t to an FX, and move my 1090t into a htpc/rendernode, I use mine mainly for lightwave 3d rendering and looking at this chart

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...k=view&id=831&Itemid=63&limit=1&limitstart=11

its such a tiny miniscule improvement over an x6 its just pointless, going to wait and see what happens next, could things be improved with another revision?
 
SheepBeast said:
seems to me the 8150 is better than the 1090T by a decent amount overall
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You're forgetting clocks and cores.
Had then been the FX6100 (The 1100T's replacement) the 1100T would be spanking it.

App's that are 6 threaded, tend to be 8 threaded too.
All about reading between the lines.
 
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