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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

Combat squirrel said:
I hope to god this does fit in my Crosshair IV now! lol
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+1, BUT I'm being pessimistic about the scores as I don't want my dreams to be shattered when reality sets in lol :D

It does look awesome though - drooooooool

JF-AMD - Just a smiley would do? Real or not dude? :>

Feel sorry for this dude at Gigabyte if it is real - looks like his number is up with the company lol - numpty even left MSN on!
 
PCZ said:
That SuperPi time seems too good to be true.
If real then great :)

Enthusiasts will buy then anyways myself included, even if the performance isn't as stellar as that leaked screenie indicates.

The Crosshair is so pretty i just have to buy the V.
NV support for SLI on the 9x chipsets is a nice bonus, no more SLI hack.

If somehow ASUS could persuade NV to let them include the SLI token in the CH 4 bios it would please a lot of folks
Somehow i doubt that though.

Sure i just heard my 2600K say "bring it on dude" :)
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Do you think that SLI support for the new AMD chipsets will be alright? Or will it be buggy?
 
Tikkabhuna said:
Do you think that SLI support for the new AMD chipsets will be alright? Or will it be buggy?
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I wouldn't think it would be great, look at the [H] trifire/tri sli review, look at the massive improvement SLi gets from both having a better cpu AND being on a NF200 chipset, while AMD on the much faster cpu got a tiny increase and a large decrease in some area's.

Of course Nvidia's way is often to sabotage the opposition, AMD generally hasn't done the same so Nvidia could be great, but I wouldn't expect Nvidia to be putting a load of effort into tweaking its drivers to work great with AMD chipsets.

zoomee said:
poo :(

Update 2:


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We have been contacted by GIGABYTE and they confirmed that the chat conversation and all the details are fake

http://www.rumorpedia.net/exclusive-amd-bulldozer-details-from-gigabyte/
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Its all malarky, it still could be true but Gigabyte certainly don't want to be the guys who outted AMD's secret, AMD don't like it when their secrets get out :p

It could be fake, it might not be, it could be a well worked way to make everyone think Bulldozer is crap.

Think Cayman, its a brilliant chip, it really is, I for MONTHS, maybe 8 months before said it would be under 400mm2, its unlikely to dramatically improve performance per mm2, and its unlikely to be more than 20% faster. Most people thought this, right before release certain people go around suggesting magical 60% improvements in performance, then the 20% faster it actually is suddenly looks rubbish ;)


Like I said, I wasn't expecting Superpi gains, no ones said it, you'll find me saying to people who insist they won't buy it unless Super pi is great, that its unlikely to improve dramatically. If it did, bonus, if it didn't, it won't necessarily have any effect on the speed of other applications.

Kind of like Furmark, as a tool to extract and use every transistor at once, its great, no other software, full stop, can do this, so its rather irrelevant. Super pi is great if you want to bench it, but in reality its SO simple it bears no relevance to anything else.

It could suggest great single threaded performance, but mostly in certain situations, always nice to have but won't necessarily make a different anywhere else.

Its hard not to get caught up in the hype and optimism of new stuff, its half the fun of getting new kit.

The thing that mostly irks me is this insistance on ANY hint of good performance in an AMD gpu/cpu that everyone suddenly assumes good performane = AMD will massively over price whatever it is.

We've seen for YEARS and dozens of products that AMD do not do that, even if it spanked a 2600k, they wouldn't price it at £500.
 
Supposedly it does display something as JF said he knows what its meant to display but what we dont know.
Although I may take that back as cant find the post to quote thus may have imagined it.

Edit, Retraction, Retracted :)


JF-AMD said:
I worked with engineering on what is shown on CPU-Z. If you give me a link to the screenshot I can tell you if it is a fake. If they do not have the right version you will get bad data.
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drunkenmaster said:
Second, it won't cost £80 more than a 2500k,

Its very possible the top Bulldozer could and really should cost as much or even more than a 2600k but by earlier reports it would seem they'll be pricing it below a 2600K.
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OcUK sell the 2600k for £234, and the i5 2500k for £160. If the top bulldozer is somewhere between those prices, preferably closer to the i5 price :p, and it turns out to be a great chip going by that sub 8 second superpi benchmark, ie, better than the i5, I'd be happy and would almost definitely get one :) We'll have to wait and see.


Martini1991 said:
That screenshot puts the Bulldozer 8 core (None flagship) clock for clock (By a fair bit) faster than SB.
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How do you mean non flagship? I thought the 8 core is their flagship chip?
 
Merlin5 said:
OcUK sell the 2600k for £234, and the i5 2500k for £160. If the top bulldozer is somewhere between those prices, preferably closer to the i5 price :p, and it turns out to be a great chip going by that sub 8 second superpi benchmark, ie, better than the i5, I'd be happy and would almost definitely get one :) We'll have to wait and see.




How do you mean non flagship? I thought the 8 core is their flagship chip?
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FX-8130P is the flagship, not the FX-8110
 
Merlin5 said:
Ah, ok. So just to demonstrate my stupidity a bit more then :o:p, is it the FX 8130P that supposedly had sub 8 second superpi and which might be priced below the 2600K?

nvm, I see it's the 8110.
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8130p is 125 w probably has much higher clocks ,but i bet 8110 95 w can be clocked to same clocks to ,well we will see soonish
 
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