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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

pmc25 said:
SSD won't do much besides massively reducing load times. Doubt if it'll improve frame rates.
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Agreed, the assets should be preloaded into RAM before the level starts. For open-world roaming games (obvlivion-esque where you dynamically load assets for a given area as you approach it) it might be of some transient benefit though, make things a bit smoother when you reach transition areas.

Having said that, should never really notice anything on games that optimise properly, especially with plenty of RAM.
 
For those counting that even if BD is great IB is going to smash it to pieces... intel announced that they had to move the release date to march/april 2012...
 
qbazdz said:
For those counting that even if BD is great IB is going to smash it to pieces... intel announced that they had to move the release date to march/april 2012...
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Pointless post. That's an eternity to most people on these forums. Regardless of how IB performs, people will upgrade to BD if it beats out Intel when it gets released, then upgrade to IB if that does the same.
 
AMD cancelled to release BD from June to move to Q3 2011 so that will start to be release later this autumn or early winter... so you have to wait until few more months as AM3+ wont release yet.
 
BubbySoup said:
Pointless post. That's an eternity to most people on these forums. Regardless of how IB performs, people will upgrade to BD if it beats out Intel when it gets released, then upgrade to IB if that does the same.
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This. We're talking almost a year until Ivy is released into the wild, which is a very, very long time indeed. Komodo is scheduled for release in 2012 as well, so it's not like AMD'll go back to twiddling their thumbs once Zambezi hits the market.
 
I shall enjoy reading that when I wake up properly. :p

I do hope that this new architecture opens up great things for AMD, using an entire new one for the first time, there are going to be some teething problems and the refresh will hopefully aleviate those. But early adopters I'm sure will love to play with this when it comes out.
 
braveheart said:
AMD cancelled to release BD from June to move to Q3 2011 so that will start to be release later this autumn or early winter... so you have to wait until few more months as AM3+ wont release yet.
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really hope that this is just rumour and that BD will release soon
 
Dissapointed, but not really surprised.

Useless twits. Their phenom line is completely outclassed, and will be so for another three month, perhaps more. Then when it comes out, IB will do the same again. Hype jockeys :(
 
Seems odd that motherboard manufacturers seemed to have finalized their designs on some of their boards without proper engineering samples then. If they were using Phenom based samples how do they know they've got their new power gating or whatever its called techniques right?
 
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