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AMD Bulldozer Finally!

davieg said:
If the rumours of early steppings were right then who knows for sure, but thats what the pic snapped off the FX Demo at E3 showed, could it be software mess ups, possibly. Could it be 1.4v stock, dunno Ive not had an 8 core desktop CPU before??
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True, I'm just speculating based on what we know about Intel's 32 nm chips. Could easily be that the software can't read the core voltage correctly.

pmc25 said:
You guys really should have paid attention at school:

Wattage = Volts x Amps

So how is 1.4V bad? Did you see a reading for current? No. If the top chip is 125W with massively declocked cores when idling at 1.4V, I'm guessing the current drops a long way from load too.

I sometimes wonder what kind of IQs people have ...
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What are you talking about? We weren't discussing power usage, we were discussing the voltage - there's only so much voltage a CPU can take, depending on architecture, etc. and 1.4 V just seems strange.
 
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DragonQ said:
True, I'm just speculating based on what we know about Intel's 32 nm chips. Could easily be that the software can't read the core voltage correctly.


What are you talking about? We weren't discussing power usage, we were discussing the voltage - there's only so much voltage a CPU can take, depending on architecture, etc. and 1.4 V just seems strange.
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You're all comparing it to Sandy Bridge (and other chips) and you have no idea what the Zambezi chips are designed for. So how is it strange or noteworthy?
 
know what is worrying, launch day is very close and this site (really good!) doesn't even have them on 'pre-order' or 'coming soon' or anything, should we be worried?

also there is still almost no information on the performance of the said processors, this is getting to the point where we are expected to buy a product on 'faith' alone with no conclusive evidence to whether it is good, whether it is bad, whether it is in-fact made from Gouda cheese, seriously?

also if the launch takes any longer, there is going to be nobody left to buy them because 9 out of 10 people would have gotten sick of waiting, and being given nothing to keep the faith. so on that not, this whole thing has been a fiasco and has not been a marketing success. as a potential customer I feel rather aggrieved because of the total 'Iron Curtain' like feel about the whole thing, can they at least give us a concrete launch date yet or is that somehow 'not good marketing'? :rolleyes:
 
Gashman said:
know what is worrying, launch day is very close and this site (really good!) doesn't even have them on 'pre-order' or 'coming soon' or anything, should we be worried?
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They won't have any mention of them until the NDA is up I would think.
 
sonicology said:
They won't have any mention of them until the NDA is up I would think.
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so something that has been 'coming out' for about thirty nine years now still has no official launch date, my god in heaven. by the time its released Intel are going to have about four hundred core processors and robots will be roaming the streets, is it really needed to keep the whole world in the dark so continually, how is that good for their company? just driving me personally further and further back toward their main competitor, and willing to say a fair few people on here are heading the same direction.

to be honest, starting to think the whole thing is blown, too many delays, too much procrastination and they've missed their golden opportunity to strike a blow at Intel, also some places saying first Bulldozers won't be available until Q3 2011 now, which is pushing it closer and closer to Ivy Bridge. which ironically we'll start getting 'solid' information on in the not to distant future, with preliminary numbers and such.

come on, we all anticipate its arrival then 'covertly' the release date seems to slip further and further away, under the radar. the 'official' release date was Q2 2011, which is about...now? there is no chance of this happening, we haven't even got to see the thing in action yet, no 'engineering sample' benchmarks or previews, no 'pre-orders' appearing on the site, no threads from one of the staff saying 'AMD Bulldozer processors coming soon!'. :(
 
panyan said:
i think it could be two things

1) AMD hasnt released any info becuase the chips just arent performing how they thought they would so they need some quick fixes before releasing them

2) AMD hasnt released any info becuase they know their chips will blow Intel's out of the water at a fraction of the price and so dont want to give anything away that could prompt Intel to release new ones
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or....

3) AMD releases the info when they launch the product, just like almost everyone else in the industry.
 
Quite a few people have made the switch now I've noticed...

I'm in no rush to upgrade at the moment, my X4 945 is doing everything I want for the time being, I just hope BD doesn't get pushed back any further than what was originally rumoured/planned
 
  1. AMD's product warranty does not cover damage caused by overclocking (even when overclocking is enabled via AMD OverDrive™ software).
^^ As seen on the website. Not unexpected obviously, but I still wonder how it will be proven. Anyway.. a little off topic.

Wonder if they are close then given they are advertising? EDIT: Just read the brightSideOfNews link, and it say AMD are targetting the back to school period for release, which is Autumn (USA: Fall). So September time I assume? Long advertising campaign ahead then!
 
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Scougar said:
Wonder if they are close then given they are advertising?
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Targeting the back to school market, sounds like early July then.

Plus see all the Phenoms on offer at OCUK

Anyway I dont remember much details of sandybridge before NDA.
 
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