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Happy bulldozer owners?????????

Seriously, I think everyone needs to get grip on this:(. The OP has a BD, they like it, they posted here to tell you all how much they like it....end of:confused:.
It is getting pretty frustrating reading around various forums from here to guru3d to...whatever, and seeing the same ****. Sure SB/IB are king of the hill....great!! But, can you afford the whole package? Some can, some can't. I'm fortunate to be able to experiment with both. i2550k....brilliant, games like a monster (although apparently someone smacked the iGPU with a hammer:rolleyes:), I just love it.
FX8120 is my HTPC/encoding rig and it does that bloody well;) Since the forum war of words broke out I decided to do some BF3 MP on the FX8120 rig aswell....can't see the difference if I'm honest. The only thing I will say is the MB and CPU was cheaper for my AMD.
I remember reading forums to find out how to push an XP2500+ beyond 3.2GHz, quite friendly places back then. Lately I'm less informed and more dismayed at the 'my e-peen is bigger then yours attitude' of a minority but quite vocal users.

Flame away chaps:eek:

If you've got to change a word to get round the filter then you should be fully starring it. Thank you.
 
si9973 said:
Seriously, I think everyone needs to get grip on this:(. The OP has a BD, they like it, they posted here to tell you all how much they like it....end of:confused:.
It is getting pretty frustrating reading around various forums from here to guru3d to...whatever, and seeing the same ****. Sure SB/IB are king of the hill....great!! But, can you afford the whole package? Some can, some can't. I'm fortunate to be able to experiment with both. i2550k....brilliant, games like a monster (although apparently someone smacked the iGPU with a hammer:rolleyes:), I just love it.
FX8120 is my HTPC/encoding rig and it does that bloody well;) Since the forum war of words broke out I decided to do some BF3 MP on the FX8120 rig aswell....can't see the difference if I'm honest. The only thing I will say is the MB and CPU was cheaper for my AMD.
I remember reading forums to find out how to push an XP2500+ beyond 3.2GHz, quite friendly places back then. Lately I'm less informed and more dismayed at the 'my e-peen is bigger then yours attitude' of a minority but quite vocal users.

Flame away chaps:eek:
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So just because people is speaking of something everywhere (because it's true), they are "flaming"?
Also, you can't use BF3 as representation for gaming performance, as it is one of few rare games that use up to 6 cores (or more), whereas 90%+ of the games are lazy ports that uses less than 4 cores. This is the reason why IPC>number of cores for gaming.
 
si9973 said:
Seriously, I think everyone needs to get grip on this:(. The OP has a BD, they like it, they posted here to tell you all how much they like it....end of:confused:.
It is getting pretty frustrating reading around various forums from here to guru3d to...whatever, and seeing the same ****. Sure SB/IB are king of the hill....great!! But, can you afford the whole package? Some can, some can't. I'm fortunate to be able to experiment with both. i2550k....brilliant, games like a monster (although apparently someone smacked the iGPU with a hammer:rolleyes:), I just love it.
FX8120 is my HTPC/encoding rig and it does that bloody well;) Since the forum war of words broke out I decided to do some BF3 MP on the FX8120 rig aswell....can't see the difference if I'm honest. The only thing I will say is the MB and CPU was cheaper for my AMD.
I remember reading forums to find out how to push an XP2500+ beyond 3.2GHz, quite friendly places back then. Lately I'm less informed and more dismayed at the 'my e-peen is bigger then yours attitude' of a minority but quite vocal users.

Flame away chaps:eek:
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unfortunately when you ask a question like the OP has - 'Are there any happy owners out there' - and then said owners describe how happy they are and how brilliant they believe the BD's are, you are also going to get opposing views. This is a discussion forum after all, and a thread full of praise for an underperforming chip is not only dull, but it's a misrepresentation of the facts....

...and make no mistake, they most certainly are underperforming. There are very few reasons to go BD right now, be it an upgrade from an existing AM3 cpu or buying new, when at best they are a side-step from the PII 6-cores and intel have pretty much every other base covered. That unfortunately is the truth, and is the reason i am still sitting here with my PII-965 and nowhere to go unless i want to drop £300+ on a new (intel) cpu and board.


If you've got to change a word to get round the filter then you should be fully starring it. Thank you.
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BWAHAHA is that word really censored? when did that happen lol
 
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i had both a PII 1090t @ 4ghz and a BD 8150 @ 4.6ghz and tbh if had to choose between them i'd take the 1090t any day.

reasons are:
1. clock for clock the BD is slower in nearly all things
2. the BD needs to be clock at least 500mhz higher to performance the same as a PII
3. BD when overclocked it heats up a lot
4. BD when overclocked it uses a lot of power
 
Justintime said:
Surely you mean 3200+ ? :p Can't say i had any chip that did over 2.6Ghz.
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Yes I had two 1700+(1466MHz) that could go to 2.4 - 2.5GHz with lots of cooling and noise (small fans and big heatsinks). Most t'bred were binned and the 2400+ were identical to the lesser binned cpu's. The search was on for golden samples that did overclock well, and various pin tricks and remaking bridges enabled high OC's.
With todays tech in cooling and motherboard, power supplies etc. 2.6GHz may be on but not over 3GHz I'm sure.
 
I always wonder if people thinking their new Bulldozer rig is way faster than whatever they had before is just because they've got a fresh OS install.

Me, I've still no incentive to upgrade from my Core 2 box... although a set of SATA3 ports would be nice for these SSD's... It's also kinda disappointing that I have an i5-3570K with 32GB RAM at work, since I'm not allowed to overclock it. :(
 
I bought a mini and a twelve-seater minibus. I have 2 boys, aged 4 and 7.

Whether I use the mini or the minibus, I can still carry all my children.

The mini is bd and the minibus is IB/SB.

Now give them both eleven passengers and the mini can't cope. No problem for the minibus.

Problem is most BD users are only carrying 2 passengers.
 
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Yes I had two 1700+(1466MHz) that could go to 2.4 - 2.5GHz with lots of cooling and noise (small fans and big heatsinks). Most t'bred were binned and the 2400+ were identical to the lesser binned cpu's. The search was on for golden samples that did overclock well, and various pin tricks and remaking bridges enabled high OC's.
With todays tech in cooling and motherboard, power supplies etc. 2.6GHz may be on but not over 3GHz I'm sure.
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Had a couple of DLT3C 1700+ that'd do 2.5-2.6Ghz on lower than 1.8v, lovely chips.
 
trickynickyuk said:
well all I'm now going to say is Im very very very happy with my fx 8150 also I have a 1090t and they are both great I don't care about IPCs or anything like that
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As Martini said, you should care, since it is your money you are spending on a CPU, so IPC should definitely matter to you- otherwise you end up wasting money on an under performing product which is severely beaten by its competitor at the same price point- just like you have done.
 
Seriously lol can't the usual suspects leave any thread alone do they always have to come stormtrooping in to tell everyone what has been said again and again. As you can see i have an Intel rig but i build quite a few AMD rigs for people who want amd. Most on here might not but some do so having said this why don't we Intel chaps sod off out of this.thread and leave it to the amd owners i am sure one favourable bd thread isn't going to bring the forum down.
 
Got a FX 8120 for £105 aftercash back, more than happy with its performance. Came from a core 2 duo e7200.

Must admit I don't really read bulldozer threads online as the "omg should have got a Intel" in every thread is so boring.

I have never got why people are so bothered about whats in somebody elses machine.

I play with Vsync on and tbh im not bothered about FPS numbers as long as the game plays smooth, ive had no issues.
 
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I have an FX-6200 Six-Core @ 4.2GHz.
I don't deny feeling some measure of buyers remorse on account of the negativity surrounding Bulldozer, however performance certainly isn't an issue - and I was fortunate enough as to purchase it at trade price through my employer's supplier.
I hope the piledriver-based CPUs will offer some hope for those with AM3+ motherboards.
 
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