Just bought

sid-180 · 25 Oct 2012 at 16:23

Gigabyte 970A-UD3 AMD 970A Motherboard
AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8150 Black Edition 3.60Ghz CPU
OCZ Agility 3 240GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive

I'm upgrading from:

Intel Duel core E6750 and a gigabyte ds3r Mb running 4 gb ddr2.

Looking forward to recieving this bad boy tomorrow.

dunn2010 · 25 Oct 2012 at 16:35

Seeing as no-one else has

this is what you could have had for 20 quid more

YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - Retail £167.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
Total : £259.38 (includes shipping : £9.50).

whats it going to be used for? gaming?

sid-180 · 25 Oct 2012 at 16:45

v rarely games

Hagar · 25 Oct 2012 at 16:49

Piledriver?

YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £143.99
Total : £153.59 (includes shipping : £8.00).

trickynickyuk · 25 Oct 2012 at 18:05

go with the piledriver instead of bulldozer

Bacon? · 25 Oct 2012 at 18:06

Cancel the order and tell us what the uses are.

99Androidguy777 · 26 Oct 2012 at 04:46

Bacon? said:
Cancel the order and tell us what the uses are.

Yeah it would have been more sensible to show us your spec before you ordered OP.

passey89 · 26 Oct 2012 at 06:26

yeh why order bulldozer when piledriver is out and roughly the same price

sid-180 · 2 Nov 2012 at 09:52

Okay after around a week my new rig has died, what a load of poo.

overclockers have agreed to swap my parts.

So decided to go intel now.

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge)
Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155)

Should have my new parts today and once rma goes through overclocers have agreed to refund me for the AMD kit.

CreateNPlay · 2 Nov 2012 at 09:59

You will be very happy with that CPU, make sure to OC it

stevenjoywell · 2 Nov 2012 at 10:25

yeah, i agree it, such as:Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge),Gigabyte Z77-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) .Should have my new parts today and once rma goes through overclocers have agreed to refund me for the AMD kit.

sid-180 · 2 Nov 2012 at 11:37

parts arrived time to start installing.

Antony101 · 2 Nov 2012 at 12:17

Why AMD even bothers is beyond me.

Good luck with the new parts, sure you'll love the i5 though.

OliverDavis · 2 Nov 2012 at 12:51

Antony101 said:
Why AMD even bothers is beyond me.

Good luck with the new parts, sure you'll love the i5 though.

If they didnt Intel would add 30% to prices and stop any research, as you are going to have to buy a CPU at some point and have no where else to go to..

Antony101 · 2 Nov 2012 at 13:15

OliverDavis said:
If they didnt Intel would add 30% to prices and stop any research, as you are going to have to buy a CPU at some point and have no where else to go to..

Intel probably could at this point, I wouldn't buy AMD, I'd personally save the extra £30.