AMD Bulldozer Finally!

mjones1 · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:24

bastic said:
I have a dillema now TBH...I could send my new MOBO back under DSR, and instead getting FX, could go i5

Do it.

Is there any FX6100 benchmarks?

jaybee · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:24

Yeah, I guess. It's just I am about to order 3 or 4 systems from OCUK and build them from scratch and I do not know what to buy. One of the rigs needs to be encoding and office apps based for photo, video, music production, the other a gaming one, and the other a light use browsing machine. They are all to be built from new so choice is totally up to what I buy. They won't be upgraded for years either.

stulid · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:25

jaybee said:
Yeah, I guess. It's just I am about to order 3 or 4 systems from OCUK and build them from scratch and I do not know what to buy. One of the rigs needs to be encoding and office apps based for photo, video, music production, the other a gaming one, and the other a light use browsing machine. They are all to be built from new so choice is totally up to what I buy. They won't be upgraded for years either.

i7 2600K

i5 2500K

i3 2100

Thats what you need for the three.

Deleted member 115712 · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:27

Do both the 8 cores come in a metal box or is it only the 8150??

SeraphX · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:27

Just read vortez's review,

not good at all, might just pick up the 4100 for Oc'ing ****'s and giggles at some point

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:28

bastic said:
because they cant afford to switch to Intel ?
change mobo etc ?

All my gaming builds for friends and clients are AMD, they are told that Intel perform better but they just don't care as long as they are getting 30-60 FPS and none of them are interested in overclocking, they say nope its fine as it is.
And most of them can afford to have Intel but they don't want to pay.

bastic · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:30

Final8y said:
All my gaming builds for friends and clients are AMD, they are told that Intel perform better but they just don't care as long as they are getting 30-60 FPS and none of them are interested in overclocking, they say nope its fine as it is.
And most of them can afford to have Intel but they don't want to pay.

I dont care much about overclocking either...

what puts me off most its power consumption

Avathar77 · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:31

bastic said:
I have a dillema now TBH...I could send my new MOBO back under DSR, and instead getting FX, could go i5

That will change you moaning about your CPU block not looking good with AMD eh?

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:33

stulid said:
Surprised you hit any AMD targets to be honest, what with Sandybridge and all.

Well that's the thing really isn't it with what highend enthusiast think and what non enthusiast do.

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:34

bastic said:
I dont care much about overclocking either...

what puts me off most its power consumption

None of them care about the power consumption as long as the PSU can cope.

stulid · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:34

Final8y said:
Well that's the thing really isn't it with what highend enthusiast think and what non enthusiast do.

Also including Pentium G/i3 2100 and H61/67 boards also

bastic · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:34

Avathar77 said:
That will change you moaning about your CPU block not looking good with AMD eh?

lol Ive forgotten about this ;D

Need to check how I stand with DSR...My RAM doesnt work on it so that is a reason to return it...

need couple hours to think if I want to be PC-less for a while again

Avathar77 · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:36

Final8y said:
None of them care about the power consumption as long as the PSU can cope.

I care about power consumption! (I do have a 80+ silver PSU)

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:37

stulid said:
Also including Pentium G/i3 2100 and H61/67 boards also

The point is in spite of what Intel can offer people are still buying AMD for whatever reason.

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:38

Avathar77 said:
I care about power consumption! (I do have a 80+ silver PSU)

Enthusiast think differently and are more informed.

QuackPot · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:39

drunkenmaster said:
ASides from bit-tech being rubbish, EVERY other website has phenoms, i7's, i5's and Bulldozer within a couple frames under gpu limits, where you would actually play the game.

We can do it your way though.

The 2600k, overclocked, using over 300W, was slower than the stock 8150 in BF3..... using much much much less power.

Why are bit-tech rubbish, they described Sandy bridge as really a lap top chip they bunged onto the desktop....... honestly, I've never seen something so epically ridiculous stated in a review, ever.

Can I get a link to that?

Also, obviosuly BD will be faster in BF3, it's optimised for 8 cores. Just too bad the majority of most games aren't and that's what matters. Why buy an inefficient 8 core when you can get a cheaper and far faster 4 core that also beats BD in just about everything else bar winrar.

bastic · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:40

Final8y said:
Enthusiast think differently and are more informed.

not every Enthusiast has a 1000W PSU and runs only single GPU and overclocked CPU(some people on here are like that ;p ) ...and not everyone wants to play super high bills for electricity...

Avathar77 · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:41

Final8y said:
Enthusiast think differently and are more informed.

First you said "None of them" now it is "Enthusiast"!

Final8y · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:43

bastic said:
not every Enthusiast has a 1000W PSU and runs only single GPU and overclocked CPU(some people on here are like that ;p ) ...and not everyone wants to play super high bills for electricity...

Which points to being inform like i said, the average user has not got a clue about power efficiency of the PC and the PSU.

Andy__C · 12 Oct 2011 at 09:43

So...NDA is up, its released....... and still I'm not that clear on the performance. There's a lot of inconsistency.

Its not sounding amazing so far though - a chip for the long term... given how tech changes so quickly I can't help but feel thats not a great strategy

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