AMD Bulldozer Finally!

[pmc25]

Are you able to confirm the date of 19th September as relevant to the release?

(2011)

It's pretty damned certain and has been for a while

 

[JF-AMD]

we never ever comment on dates, you should know that

 

[DragonQ]

Not even if your parents ask how it went?

 

[mjones1]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/08/26/amd-bulldozer-to-ship-within-the-next-week/1

 

[pmc25]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/08/26/amd-bulldozer-to-ship-within-the-next-week/1

Don't get too excited. It's still going to be the 19th / mid-September. By shipping they mean shipping to retailers / OEMs. Retailers & OEMs will ship the chips or products including them at launch in mid-September.

 

[kedge]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/hardware/2011/08/26/amd-bulldozer-to-ship-within-the-next-week/1

Some positives for me personally - no on-board GPU. Bulldozer will support DDR3 memory at (official) speeds of up to 1,866MHz. There’s also new power management features.

The Negative bit for me - The wait is almost over for AMD fans, and owners of Socket AM3+ motherboards with 990FX chipsets.

 

[JF-AMD]

Not even if your parents ask how it went?

My parents don't know what I do for a living.

My brother was once working in tech support at best buy (our version of dixons or currys) and my mom once said "I have two sons, one is really successful in the computer industry...and the other lives in texas."

 

[gareth170]

There’s also new power management features.

thats one reason why am3 700/800 boards may run in to issues.

 

[kedge]

thats one reason why am3 boards may run in to issues.

What is the pin count on the first bulldozer retail cpu?, i got a Crosshair 4 Socket 941, was hoping for backward compatibility, oh well never mind i suppose.

 

[1kiwi]

Hopefully only a few weeks to go lads. I would love for AMD to make some sort of come back against; god knows this industry needs some competition.

 

[gareth170]

What is the pin count on the first bulldozer retail cpu?, i got a Crosshair 4 Socket 941, was hoping for backward compatibility, oh well never mind i suppose.

942.

it's backward compatable unofficial, amd won't support it

 

[kedge]

It's the CPU-Z where it says

Name: AMD FX-8130P
Specification: AMD FX(tm)-8150 Eight Core Processor

That caught my eye at first.

Max TDP 223W caught my eye.

 

[kedge]

942.

it's backward compatable unofficial, amd won't support it

Ok, might wait it out some more and see what the test reviews say.

 

[Final8y]

Not even if your parents ask how it went?

LOL! good one.

 

[Bleek]

we never ever comment on dates, you should know that

I used to get old the exact dates when I ran a review site back in the day!

 

[zoomee]

thats one reason why am3 700/800 boards may run in to issues.

bah, power management is the first thing we overclockers turn OFF

 

[QuackPot]

Max TDP 223W caught my eye.

Yeash. That doesn't sound too good.

 

[DragonQ]

bah, power management is the first thing we overclockers turn OFF

Since when? Overclocking doesn't require power management to be disabled.

 

[davieg]

Max TDP 223W caught my eye.

Its not hard to work out that figure has got to be incorrect being as none of the AM3+ boards we have released at the min are rated anywhere near that..
CPU-Z doesnt detect it right or uses some abnormal calculations thats all.

 

[Sin_Chase]

bah, power management is the first thing we overclockers turn OFF

Not us SB folk. Stays right on thanks!