8150 world record!!!! i can't wait for my Bulldozer

[gropingmantis]

That is just the point though. The performance margins between BD and the much cheaper X6 is minute so why waste your money? Send it back and use the money you save to get something at will actually boost performance. Significantly.

Or get an i5-2500K which trounces it in most real world usage for less money.

 

[Marine-RX179]

That is just the point though. The performance margins between BD and the much cheaper X6 is minute so why waste your money? Send it back and use the money you save to get something at will actually boost performance. Significantly.

^This

Getting a Phenom II X6 (or SandyBridge) and spend the £100 saved toward the graphic instead would deliver much better gaming performance. At the moment, getting the Bulldozer FX8150 is basically like making a £100 donation to AMD (and more money to the energy provider) out of good will, but with no extra performance in return. If someone want to donate to AMD, they might as well spend that money on a more expensive AMD graphic card, which would ACTUALLY improve the gaming performance AND financially contributing to them at the same time..

 

[Final8y]

Op is entitled to his opinion and how he spends his money so maybe lets all lay off the insults and for those who seem to love labelling people as trolls why don't you just exit a thread and not go back lol. I think the point most people are trying to get across to you OP is that you would in practical terms be better off going with one of the old hex cores if it has to be amd and sorry to say it but that is correct.

By the time the BD architecture is competitive we are going to be a bit into the future. Gives me no joy to say it i was hoping for more from amd this time round but either because of over ambitious engineers or a bad pocess at glo fo BD right now is not what it should have been and not really worth the money they cost. Either way whatever you decide have fun with it and let us know how you get on .

The OP was attacked first indeed and there are better ways to tell him that BD is not really worth it atm, but at the end of the day if he wants one and it makes him happy then so be it..

 

[nick.lidgett]

The OP was attacked first indeed and there are better ways to tell him that BD is not really worth it atm, but at the end of the day if he wants one and it makes him happy then so be it..

Thank you and to everyone else i get the point, case closed.

 

[Skeese]

Wow, nice thread

 

[Plus1]

So the world record video wasnt impressive?? cool, take it or leave it. I quite enjoyed it.
I asked a question at the start of the thread which got answered, where did i NOT accept what was being said??? just because i didnt come out and write "OMG im such an idiot thanks guys ill return it" i get labled a Troll??? doesnt make sence to me. Then everyone jumps on board, i wanted peoples opinions but a lot of the replies are not opinions they are smart a**e comments and repetitive, i pay my elecric bill and never worry about getting a red letter so lets forget the power consumption its not an issue for me. If you have nothing new to bring to the thread why bother posting?
Some people make it out to be the worst thing since time began, the performance margins between BD, HEX and 2500 is minute, in all honesty we are talking about a couple seconds on most tasks. I wont be returning it i shall give it a bash and if it really is terrible ill know for next time.

p.s my sig look fine in the preview, deleted it now.

Thats how it works here, Its Ok for the people who have over a certain amount of posts to attack you based on opinion, but if you dare speak your mind, you will get slaughtered. Heck, You are lucky they did not get the clowns chasing you.

 

[vorticalspace]

So the world record video wasnt impressive?? cool, take it or leave it. I quite enjoyed it.
I asked a question at the start of the thread which got answered, where did i NOT accept what was being said??? just because i didnt come out and write "OMG im such an idiot thanks guys ill return it" i get labled a Troll??? doesnt make sence to me. Then everyone jumps on board, i wanted peoples opinions but a lot of the replies are not opinions they are smart a**e comments and repetitive, i pay my elecric bill and never worry about getting a red letter so lets forget the power consumption its not an issue for me. If you have nothing new to bring to the thread why bother posting?
Some people make it out to be the worst thing since time began, the performance margins between BD, HEX and 2500 is minute, in all honesty we are talking about a couple seconds on most tasks. I wont be returning it i shall give it a bash and if it really is terrible ill know for next time.

Fair play fella & good luck with your BD experience

Enjoy your new chip & don't forget to let us know how you get on.

I for one think that if you've taken the time to post on an obscure computer forum, and are obviously quite happy with your purchase, you should be welcomed as most peeps on hear will be interested to know how BD performs for you.

 

[Gashman]

I would indeed like to hear your personal experiences using the chip in day to day stuff rather than obscure benchmarks, there is a bit of a weird thing going on, which is people who are purchasing the chips say 'yeah they are pretty good, they do everything needed of them, what more do I need?...' and giving them good all round reviews, yet the majority of 'reviewers' are slating them, with the rest of the reviewers coming out with the more accurate 'it is really good at some things, not so good at other things, so AMD hasn't quite got it right yet but its a step in the right direction...', just noticed before the FX-6100 and the FX-8120 both have 5 out of 5 stars and pretty good reviews on here, so they can't be that bad in the real-world.

 

[numatic.nathan]

I would indeed like to hear your personal experiences using the chip in day to day stuff rather than obscure benchmarks, there is a bit of a weird thing going on, which is people who are purchasing the chips say 'yeah they are pretty good, they do everything needed of them, what more do I need?...' and giving them good all round reviews, yet the majority of 'reviewers' are slating them, with the rest of the reviewers coming out with the more accurate 'it is really good at some things, not so good at other things, so AMD hasn't quite got it right yet but its a step in the right direction...', just noticed before the FX-6100 and the FX-8120 both have 5 out of 5 stars and pretty good reviews on here, so they can't be that bad in the real-world.

But for over £200....

Each to their own I guess.

 

[Gashman]

But for over £200....

Each to their own I guess.

yeah that is true, think prices will settle down over time to be honest once Global Foundries gets their act together. the reason the price is so high is because the market needs more chips, there aren't enough to go around so they are sold at a premium due to being 'rare' so to speak.

 

[mmj_uk]

I would indeed like to hear your personal experiences using the chip in day to day stuff rather than obscure benchmarks

Do you think it's wise to spend £215 for a good 'day to day' CPU when a £130 1090T is more or less its equal in 'day to day' usage?

For me a 'day to day' CPU is something along the lines of a £90 Phenom X4, if I'm spending £200+ it's because I want outright performance.

 

[Gashman]

no, that is why I use a 1055T, because it offers great all round performance without a price premium, the thing is though the prices of Bulldozer processors are likely a bit higher than they should be due to limited supplies and the high-end Bulldozer processors more than likely aren't performing to their peak potential, never know with some tweaking in the engineering department and it might yet become a competitive processor, though I doubt it'll be competitive in single-threaded performance mind!

also the only reason I said day to day stuff is because I have heard nothing of how the processors perform in the real-world, do they 'feel' slow or do they feel quick, snappy for example? care less about how fast something calculates Pi and more about how something performs for the normal everyday user, that is all...

Edit: hell in day to day sorts of activities, web browsing, shopping, stuff like that dual-core is perfectly acceptable, think a Phenom II X4 is overkill for the daily grind of activities.

 

[gurusan]

BD sucks, you chose poorly.

 

[Alkalinepro5]

I was planning in going for BD, however TBH my X4 is enough for now.

Playing BF3 it is my GPU which craps out way before my CPU.

 

[kingy666]

Well i for one say good luck to the OP and i hope he enjoys his Bulldozer CPU. He likes AMD more then Intel (i used to myself until Intel started getting too far ahead that it seems AMD can't catch up), so if he wants to use AMD and have limited performance thats his choice. If he wants to buy a CPU without doing any research first then maybe he is the type of person that likes to live 'on the edge' and i admire people like that. Just stick all the settings on your games to medium and you will have no problems as nobody needs these fancy ultra settings anyway.

 

[Gashman]

Well i for one say good luck to the OP and i hope he enjoys his Bulldozer CPU. He likes AMD more then Intel (i used to myself until Intel started getting too far ahead that it seems AMD can't catch up), so if he wants to use AMD and have limited performance thats his choice. If he wants to buy a CPU without doing any research first then maybe he is the type of person that likes to live 'on the edge' and i admire people like that. Just stick all the settings on your games to medium and you will have no problems as nobody needs these fancy ultra settings anyway.

thing is though, in the sort of environment your talking about, gaming and ultra settings, usually higher resolutions, there will be no notable difference between the two anyway so not like he is missing much! it'll still play games perfectly fine on high settings and such, you'll just notice it more in the incredibly rare CPU limited situations. problem is the same applies for a less powerful (note the phrase less powerful, because Bulldozer has a fair bit of power under its hood, just isn't fully realised power!) like a Phenom II X4 or something, in which case he could have saved himself a fair amount of cash.

 

[Things change I've changed]

Fair play to the op'er, he didn't make any excuses as to why he choose BD, he was refreshingly honest, he just prefers AMD and is prepared to live with any minor pitfalls that comes with his choose, I stuck with Intel during the prescott period even though AMD were offering a better and cheaper alternative, but I didn't care, I liked Intel so I choose to stay with them.

 

[mathwat]

Perhaps the new stepping will sort it out, fingers crossed. We need competition to keep prices down/move things forward.

 

[Plus1]

I was planning in going for BD, however TBH my X4 is enough for now.

Playing BF3 it is my GPU which craps out way before my CPU.

Some people here would argue that you would get better FPS if you had a 2500K/1155 Chipset with all other things being equal. But will agree with you that, even on that setup in your Sig, Your card would/might bottleneck first, provided its a single screen set up. So +1.

Perhaps the new stepping will sort it out, fingers crossed. We need competition to keep prices down/move things forward.

+1. Total agree.

 

[LEUVEN]

Oh The Ironing!

Because im not a complete computer geek like some guys who take this stuff seriously.

you read into my comments how you see fit and think what you like buddy i think you are lucky there is a million miles of cyber space between us.

Who do you think you are to judge me personaly.

ive read a few of yours and i have come to the conclusion you must be a fat little virgin that still lives with his mother.

OP is a troll

Well spotted.