AMD OWNERS ONLY what cpu do you have

Justintime · 7 Jul 2012 at 21:59

Meh just let em be.

Steveocee · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:04

960T unlocked to a hex here :-)

humbug · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:27

Martini1991 said:
I just made a comment about Humbugs reference to his Thuban mashing a 2500k, by emphasising the point from my own experience, going one further stating how my 1055T had a bigger margin against the 2500k.

From then it's been extrapolated I'm a troll who hates AMD?

Then stop repeating the same thing over and over again about Bulldozer, we know how you feel about it. you would not be the first to go off on a crusade over Bulldozer because its the exact opposite of what it was supposed to be.

I'm pretty miffed at AMD myself, i was raging when the real benches came to light, properly.... i was looking forward to some thing great and good again.

As it turned out Bulldozer is AMD's Pentium 4, Intel pulled themselves out of that one. whether or not AMD will remains to be seen.

Plenty of people out there are plenty happy with there Bulldozer, some come here and say how happy they are, it seems you are always in the wings to pull them down off there cloud.

just leave it be, Bulldozer is old news now, the future is just around the corner. look there if you can bring yourself to.

Martini1991 · 7 Jul 2012 at 22:47

I'm not the one talking about Bulldozer in this thread, given I was on about Phenom II.
My only mention of Bulldozer was to due to the "compiler lark" you brought up.
When you tried to bring up Bulldozer performance, I stated not to as it's been done to death.

That's hardly me bleating on about it.

humbug · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:03

Martini1991 said:
I'm not the one talking about Bulldozer in this thread, given I was on about Phenom II.
My only mention of Bulldozer was to due to the "compiler lark" you brought up.
When you tried to bring up Bulldozer performance, I stated not to as it's been done to death.

That's hardly me bleating on about it.

I never said anything about Bulldozer in that, you were at that time talking about Thuban. you tossed Bulldozer into the mix when at the software instructions point.

you see bulldozer had absolutely nothing to do with any of this until you brought it up.

ghost12 · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:08

fx8120 black edition @4.1
asus gtx 560 oc @950mhz
120gb ocz ssd
antec kuhler h20 620
asrock fx990 extreme 3
8gb amd ddr3 1600mhz

Martini1991 · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:33

humbug said:
I never said anything about Bulldozer in that, you were at that time talking about Thuban. you tossed Bulldozer into the mix when at the software instructions point.

you see bulldozer had absolutely nothing to do with any of this until you brought it up.

I was unaware I said you did.
I tossed Bulldozer in as a point of reference.

It was then left, and then the idiocy of "AMD bashing" started.

Andy__C · 7 Jul 2012 at 23:50

955 Phenom II up to 4ghz
8gb Corsair RAM
2 x 5850 xfire
Crosshair III Mobo
875w Thermaltake Toughpower PSU.
1 x 500gb WD Cav Black Drive
1 x 1tb Samsung Spinpoint
Corsair 800D Case
watercooling

Coping well... probably would go intel on the next overhaul however.

linktoinsanity · 8 Jul 2012 at 01:04

Does owning an Athlon XP1500+ somewhere count as having an AMD for this thread?

And true with Bulldozer probably being AMD's Pentium 4, with the owners being happy enough with it. I was with my P4, still sits here as my backup computer...

Nevakonaza · 8 Jul 2012 at 01:10

I have a AMD Sempron 2800+ system in the loft,Very good system back in the day...still works too.

dante6491 · 8 Jul 2012 at 01:11

Well for the next 36-48 hours or so until my 3570k, 16GB, 256GB SSD arrives...

x3 720BE at 3.5Ghz
Titan Fenrir Evo
4GB Kingston HyperX
2x5850 Crossfire
Asus M4A79 DDR2
Corsair 850W
500GB 7200.12
250GB WD Cavier Black.
Fractal R2

Still have the bits for my old 3700+ lying around. Managed to get that to 3.2Ghz on air. Loved when I broke 30ms on Superpi.

Dicehunter · 8 Jul 2012 at 01:31

Main Rig

AMD Bulldozer FX 8150 Black Edition @ 4.60GHZ
Corsair H80 With 2 X 120MM Corsair High Performance Static Pressure Fans
Asus Crosshair V Formula 990FX
Asus 6970 2GB Crossfire-X 1400/900
16GB Corsair Dominator GT 2133MHZ With Aiflow Fan 2 And Airflow Pro
X-FI Titanium fatal1ty Pro
Corsair Force Series GT 120GB SSD Sata 3
Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB HDD Sata 3
Corsair Pro Series 850 Watt PSU - Fully Modular
Samsung Blu-Ray Drive
Silverstone Raven RV-01 + 2 X Silverstone Air Penetrator 1400 RPM
Windows 7 Ultimate 64 Bit Edition

Accessories -

Samsung 27" Widescreen Ultra Thin LED Monitor with MHL
Roccat Kave 5.1 Headset
Razer Blackwidow Ultimate Keyboard
Razer Mamba 2012 Edition Mouse
Microsoft Xbox 360 Wireless Controller
XFX Warpad Mousemat

Marine-RX179 · 8 Jul 2012 at 07:30

Martini1991 said:
I was unaware I said you did.
I tossed Bulldozer in as a point of reference.

It was then left, and then the idiocy of "AMD bashing" started.

I wasn't even aware that there was any "AMD bashing" in this thread...may be some people are in the mindset of "if you are not my friend (if you don't praise Bulldozer), you must be my enemy (AMD hater)!"

And on someone's topic of "Thinking of buying BD", the OP posted this:

trickynickyuk said:
i have an fx-8150 and i am very happy with it i went from a 1090t which is still in my sig and it is great i have blown every game out the water that i have played everything on max settings as well i would defo getting recommend one especially if you can get it as cheap as you are able to.

everyone goes by benchmarks now and not on how they perform real life ye they may not be intel performance but they re still a good chip and able to handle games @ 1080p with no problems

Martini is may be posting the same thing regarding Bulldozer many times, but it is necessary because of people provide misguided information such as above, whereas he just want to make sure people getting the best performance for their money. If I was someone in for buying a new CPU/platform, I would be interested in getting the fastest performer for my budget, not paying the same money for something that offer lesser performance.

trickynickyuk · 8 Jul 2012 at 10:40

it isnt misguided information i am going on fact i have the FX 8150 and everything i throw at it has worked with no problems performance if fantastic.

i just wanted to know who was still using AMD cpus none of this i am pleased reading through best part of the irrelivant comments on here there s still plenty of us out there including some of the older chips.

T345 · 8 Jul 2012 at 10:46

Athlon 3200+
I coulden't care less about intel/ amd, whichever one is doing the best, intel right now, thats why i ordered intel components for my new build

passey89 · 8 Jul 2012 at 10:50

Phnom O2 1075t at 4.05ghz

Marine-RX179 · 8 Jul 2012 at 10:59

trickynickyuk said:
it isnt misguided information i am going on fact i have the FX 8150 and everything i throw at it has worked with no problems performance if fantastic.

i just wanted to know who was still using AMD cpus none of this i am pleased reading through best part of the irrelivant comments on here there s still plenty of us out there including some of the older chips.

It is misguided when you said BD wouldn't be a problem for 1920 res gaming. It is only at ultra high res like 2560 or 5780 that CPU would matter less since the res would drive down the frame rate of graphic, so a CPU that does only 30fps or 60fps won't be much different anymore, if the graphic card can only do 25fps. However at 1920 res, it is still very often where high-end graphic card can do 60fps and beyond, whereas CPUs such as Core2, Phenom II, Bulldozer would have minimum frame rate drop down to 20-40fps frequenty due to low GPU usage, worst case can go to down to 50% or lower...(examples that I can think of is playing WOW, Starcarft II, Total Wars Series/Shogun 2) thus bottlenecking the graphic performance in the slightly more CPU demanding game.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 8 Jul 2012 at 11:45

Marine-RX179 said:
It is misguided when you said BD wouldn't be a problem for 1920 res gaming.

Marine-RX179 said:
CPUs such as Core2, Phenom II, Bulldozer

According to TPU it is OKish:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970_CPU_Scaling/3.html

It is slightly slower overall than a Core i7 920 with an HD7970 V1.

The OP has an HD6950 2GB and the HD7970 V1 is around 55% faster according to TPU:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970_GHz_Edition/28.html

A Core i5 2500K would be quicker and probably cheaper,but I suspect in most games the chap should be fine at 1920X1080.

Marine-RX179 · 8 Jul 2012 at 12:35

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
According to TPU it is OKish:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970_CPU_Scaling/3.html

It is slightly slower overall than a Core i7 920 with an HD7970 V1.

The OP has an HD6950 2GB and the HD7970 V1 is around 55% faster according to TPU:

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/HD_7970_GHz_Edition/28.html

A Core i5 2500K would be quicker and probably cheaper,but I suspect in most games the chap should be fine at 1920X1080.

Generally, single player games don't stress the CPU anywhere as much as playing online. In my opinion, with GPU usage dropping down to 50% in some mainsteam games is not "fine". But putting everything aside, I would still have to say anyone that are recommending Bulldozer as a new build or upgrade over Intel for other people are definitely giving bad advise; on the low budget end side though, the Llanos are definitely worth thinking about.

CAT-THE-FIFTH · 8 Jul 2012 at 12:45

Marine-RX179 said:
Generally, single player games don't stress the CPU anywhere as much as playing online. In my opinion, with GPU usage dropping down to 50% in some mainsteam games is not "fine". But putting everything aside, I would still have to say anyone that are recommending Bulldozer as a new build or upgrade over Intel for other people are definitely giving bad advise; on the low budget end side though, the Llanos are definitely worth thinking about.

But TBH,many of us are either using older and slower CPUs or CPUs like a Core i3 2100 with sub £200 GPUs. Moreover,I never "recommended BD" - I said it would be fine with a slower GPU. After all an FX8150 should be in the same ballpark as some of the sub £100 Phenom II X4 CPUs for gaming from what I gather,so I am quite aware of its performance.

CAT-THE-FIFTH said:
A Core i5 2500K would be quicker and probably cheaper,but I suspect in most games the chap should be fine at 1920X1080.

Moreover,how many people are running GTX580,GTX680,HD7950 or HD7970 cards as a percentage of ALL gamers in the world,including tens of millions of online players??This is what you fail to realise.

Many of them are running games at 1920X1080 and 1680X1050 including games like WoW and not with expensive hardware too. Monitors at such resolutions are ubiquitous. I know loads of WoW players myself and some who are pretty dedicated ones too. Most don't have Core i5 CPUs and they are NOT running at XGA or something like that. But,OTH they seem not to measurebate.

So,in that sense,you are being rather elitist.