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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Benchmarks don't lie, especially so many of them. Was hoping to upgrade to Bulldozer but from what I've seen it'd actually be a downgrade and I'd be a massive idiot to buy a 8150 for £195 when I can get an i7 for £200.


i7 beats it in every benchmark, including encoding.

Heck if your encoding in itunes you'll get wooped by a phenom 980.....
 
Hazkirby said:
Benchmarks don't lie, especially so many of them. Was hoping to upgrade to Bulldozer but from what I've seen it'd actually be a downgrade and I'd be a massive idiot to buy a 8150 for £195 when I can get an i7 for £200.


i7 beats it in every benchmark, including encoding.

Heck if your encoding in itunes you'll get wooped by a phenom 980.....
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plus motherboard some people forget that.....

i7 doesn't beat it in every benchmark

who says i'd be encoding in itunes????
 
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gareth170 said:
if im not happy with a product surely thats what the dsr is for..

shoping online is not like walking in a shop and able to look the product working and try it yourself before buying
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I just bought a mobo and CPU from anohter etailer. Couldnt get the mobo to even initialise POST, let alone POST. Needless to say I RMA'd both only to recieve them both back saying they worked fine. I tried yet again to get the stuff to work with my existing equipment and I couldnt get it to work. I then raised an RMA to return the mobo and CPU on an "Item not Required" basis as I couldnt be bothered prating about changing several components. The etailer had no problem accepting the mobo, but would not take the CPU as it had had thermal paste applied to it. So I went and bought a mobo that worked.

I really dont think etailers take returns of CPU's on a DSR basis. Just too much risk for them and I can see their point.
 
AndyT said:
I just bought a mobo and CPU from anohter etailer. Couldnt get the mobo to even initialise POST, let alone POST. Needless to say I RMA'd both only to recieve them both back saying they worked fine. I tried yet again to get the stuff to work with my existing equipment and I couldnt get it to work. I then raised an RMA to return the mobo and CPU on an "Item not Required" basis as I couldnt be bothered prating about changing several components. The etailer had no problem accepting the mobo, but would not take the CPU as it had had thermal paste applied to it. So I went and bought a mobo that worked.

I really dont think etailers take returns of CPU's on a DSR basis. Just too much risk for them and I can see their point.
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Assuming you'd tried to return it within the allotted time, they'd have had to accept a return under DSR, you just needed to state this was the reason for returning the items.
 
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I really dont think etailers take returns of CPU's on a DSR basis. Just too much risk for them and I can see their point.
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but I'm sure theres been some people that as sent a CPU back under dsr here for whatever reason.

Its similar to sending a gpu back under dsr which I know some people have done here for whatever reason
 
...What on Earth happened in this thread? :confused:

Just ignore some of the posts here G.


When are the new steppings/patch whatevers coming?
 
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from a 1090t? Do you consider the 100mhz extra speed a worthwhile upgrade?
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my 1090T is faulty this why i am replacing it , i was looking forward to bulldozer but 2 things put me off .

1: reviews
2: no working bios for my mobo as of yet


i may change my mind yet and return my 1100T ;)
 
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@ Gareth, I told you straight off, you're fine in a legal stand point. Doesn't matter about the morality of it, that is different from one person to another.
 
OCUK are unlikely to have a problem with this.
Gareth will probably be the first one to post a review of the cpu on this website, so it may serve as a good sales/marketing boost to AMD cpus. Of course, if Gareth gets the CPU and then absolutely slams it, then...it will probably have the opposite effect.

OCUK will give him the standard line (just as any retailer would), that under the DSR rules, you may return the CPU within 7 days.

Seriously guys, OCUK sell 1000s of products/day. They really aren't going to be worried about 1 forum member, buying a CPU and maybe returning it if it performs poorly. I think a little too much is being made of this.

EDIT: And as I stated above, if he doesnt want to send it back to OCUK, he could sell it off on an auction site at virtually full price (considering how rare the cpu is).
 
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Retailers are well within their rights to refuse any future custom of people who abuse DSR though... yes you can return items for any reason but it's there as buyer protection not as a rental service, generally when you have no intention of keeping something you don't order it so DSR doesn't come into play.

It's not like Gareth is buying an unknown quantity, we all already know that Bulldozer is mostly lacklustre.
 
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