AMD Bulldozer Finally!

chaotic_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:21

Martini1991 said:
In the UK, I don't think E-tailers ever put it at its RRP ; 220.

It'd be interesting to see if it fell more.

ocuk had the fx8150 at 219.99 for a short time , it then dropped to what it is listed at now

Martini1991 · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:27

chaotic_uk said:
ocuk had the fx8150 at 219.99 for a short time , it then dropped to what it is listed at now

I think a few hours at most lol?

chaotic_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:27

Martini1991 said:
I think a few hours at most lol?

a little longer if i remember right lol

Martini1991 · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:33

chaotic_uk said:
a little longer if i remember right lol

I don't recall, but Gareth ordered early on and paid 199.99 (I think he was charged 220, but refunded 20).
I was asleep

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mmj_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:42

I'd wait a few weeks wouldn't be surprised if there is another drop when AMD realise the demand isn't there.

DragonQ · 17 Oct 2011 at 11:43

Can't blame retailers for trying to sell a couple.

Tuvoc · 17 Oct 2011 at 13:04

littlepuppy said:
Did the same, 1100T will pretty much hold its value, if you pick one up at 140 get 15 for the Deus Ex code you get a great chip for £125.

Then just wait for the next revision, which hopefully they will have started to work out some of the shortcomings!

Same here

I had been waiting for Bulldozer, but got the 1100T instead when I saw the test results. The Bulldozer architecture will be a winner, but not on it's first revision.

Gashman · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:02

Martini1991 said:
Why would the FX4 be popular? It's still worse than the Phenom II X4. I bet a Phenom II X3/X2 could give it a good chase in gaming.
The FX6 is crap in comparison to Intel and current AMD CPU's out at that price point too.

They simply don't have the numbers to ship.

What's worse about BD CPU's, is they seem to be limited in what the CPU NB can achieve, you can take Phenom II's to 3GHZ on the CPU-NB fairly easy, my old 1055T did 3.2GHZ for example, that'd spank the FX6 all over.

very true, old Phenom II processors get a good chunk faster in some applications with a healthy boost to the CPU-NB speeds, did that also on my 1055T and got ~17% increase in frame-rate in Starcraft II unbelievably enough!

gareth170 · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:19

Martini1991 said:
I don't recall, but Gareth ordered early on and paid 199.99 (I think he was charged 220, but refunded 20).
I was asleep .

yeah i ordered as soon as ocuk put it up, which was at 219,99 then it droped to 209,99~ then it droped to 199.99

Martini1991 · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:35

gareth170 said:
yeah i ordered as soon as ocuk put it up, which was at 219,99 then it droped to 209,99~ then it droped to 199.99

FX6100's in stock

sunama · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:44

Gareth, assuming you went for the FX8150, why did you not opt for the FX8120?
Both cpus clock to approximately the same level, so my understanding is that the FX8120 is where the action is at.

chaotic_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:47

Martini1991 said:
FX6100's in stock

fx81** soon then :rolleyes:

Martini1991 · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:48

chaotic_uk said:
fx81** soon then

Next week probably.

chaotic_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 15:53

Martini1991 said:
Next week probably.

eta on product page says the 21st , else where says 1st nov

Martini1991 · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:00

chaotic_uk said:
eta on product page says the 21st , else where says 1st nov

I know

But I wouldn't be surprised if it was next week is all.
The quicker the better obviously.

mmj_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:09

Well I've ordered a 1055T 95W to play with until LGA2011, not wasting a penny on Bulldozer.

chaotic_uk · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:20

Martini1991 said:
I know
But I wouldn't be surprised if it was next week is all.
The quicker the better obviously.

i know you know

gareth170 · 17 Oct 2011 at 16:41

Martini1991 said:
FX6100's in stock

didn't want a 6 core BD hehe

opethdisciple · 17 Oct 2011 at 17:55

Maybe the fact the benchmarks score are so pitiful for BD, may mean that the chip is indeed decent, its just a little bit ahead of its time.

But that is not an excuse. AMD should be building chips to sell today, not working on an architecure which will be relevant in 5 years.

sunama · 17 Oct 2011 at 18:10

opethdisciple said:
But that is not an excuse. AMD should be building chips to sell today, not working on an architecure which will be relevant in 5 years.

Indeed. Releasing a product which the masses are not ready for, can sometimes spell the end of a company.

Timing is just as important as the quality of the product itself.