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Choice to make chaps.. 1100T or Bulldozer...

I was in the exact same position as you, bought a 990FX AM3+ mobo, waited on BD to come out and then *smack in the face*.

In the end I was seriously contemplating selling the mobo and switching over to intel, I could have set up with SB and jumped to Ivybridge and easily left AMD in the dust.

However, I decided that I had enough hassle and opted for the 1100T. So far it's been brilliant, great processor looking forward to gaming with it. And the bonus of sticking with AMD is we get to see how the BDs and Piledriver develops, if one of them turns out to be much better than we thought then it's easy to switch and the mobos will be the best for the job.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Stucked with the AM3+ board I would say grabbing the the 1090T and just clock it to 4.2GHz, since it matches the gaming performance of the FX8150 at 4.8GHz in games like Arma II, consume less power and faster on individual core's performance.
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most 1090t can do up to 4ghz with reasonable voltage . a 1100t may do slightly better.
 
Its under H70 so should be fine, scoring just under 4000 on Vantage extreme test, which is the highest Ive ever seen...

Very nippy and really happy with it. Still feel a bit disappointed that bulldozer is such an epic fail but will be nice to see what others do with them, and possibly dive in at the piledriver stage.

TBH for all my "needs" a 6 core phenom 2 will be fine for some time yet :)
 
would never get Bulldozer in its current guise, wait for Global to fix their 32NM process and get those temperatures, power consumption down and get those clock speeds right up, then it might be worth a look. currently runs at 3.6GHZ, where realistically the architecture is meant to be running at stock speed of maybe 0.5GHZ faster than that, and then turbo on top of that. the process is the biggest hindrance, so right now don't get Bulldozer, few months though, perhaps?! ;)
 
Gashman said:
would never get Bulldozer in its current guise, wait for Global to fix their 32NM process and get those temperatures, power consumption down and get those clock speeds right up, then it might be worth a look. currently runs at 3.6GHZ, where realistically the architecture is meant to be running at stock speed of maybe 0.5GHZ faster than that, and then turbo on top of that. the process is the biggest hindrance, so right now don't get Bulldozer, few months though, perhaps?! ;)
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your forgetting theres a 8170 coming which is at 3.9ghz

the 8150 stock clock is about right...
 
indeed, I did indeed forget about the 8170! but still, would expect it to be like the Prescott days where it started off at a 'that is pretty high clock speed...' then it just keeps going up and up as the process matures. thing is though, once the fabrication gets sorted the power consumption should go down accordingly and clock speeds get better, so all the doom and gloom I think is all a bit premature when you think about it. ;)
 
After looking at all the BD reviews that include the 1100T, and seeing the price of the 1100T, I was surprised at how good it looked compared to the SB chips.
 
the X6 has always been a great alternative to Intel offerings, though its heresy to say such on these forums. overall performance Sandy Bridge wins but think about it this way, I got AM3+ board for a good price, got a 1055T for ~£75, also after messing about with the X6 have came to the conclusion there is more performance to be had with some more aggressive tweaking, been saying for ages though from a price point of view AMD are perfectly competitive, an example X amount of money buys you a 1100T, the same amount of money could get you a Intel 2500, at normal speeds there isn't a huge amount between the two, like genuinely, its juts when overclocking Sandy Bridge tends to take off out of sight, and since it has such a healthy overclocking margin it makes it impossible for the X6 to keep up. ;)
 
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