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So I wnet and bought a Bulldoser

gareth170 said:
a 2500k would outperform it..

as i said as it is now even a PII 6 core outperform it clock for clock and for gaming it needs to be clocked atleast 600mhz higher than a PII 6 core to get the similar performance level.
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I'd like to see a Phenom 2 x6 get a score like mine in 3dmark 11 ! All I keep reading is clock this clock that, I know the benche's and reviews don't lie and if all you give 2 hoots' about is gaming then yes the intels are a good bet, but for an 8 core CPU that can overclock really well and is the same price / performance as the cheapest enthusiast Intel chip it's very good. Just a shame that AMD got the marketing wrong that all .:rolleyes:
 
phenom II 1090t with stock cpu nb
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phenom II 1090t with 2600mhz cpu nb

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8150 results
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these are my own results.
 
gareth170 said:
yeah but in most other things 4.5ghz BD 8core is = to a PII 6core 4ghz.

also most BD can only do 4.5ghz with safe voltage/temps
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I agree and your results show that, also I agree on the 4.5 thing past 4.6 needs too much voltage and heats up like a bitch!

I still like it though and I have a base system that when new revisions drop I can upgrade etc.

Still the most fun oclocking I've had in a while.

My NB is at 2500 and HT is @ 3Ghz so through put should at least be good.
 
AMD can really frustrate at times. There video cards are the best on the market in terms of price/performance, Llano is a brilliant concept and well executed and IMO has a big future ahead of it then they spend 5 YEARS developing a POS like Bulldozer which preforms worse in a lot scenarios then their current processors.

I don't buy into 'software is not optimised for it' you should optimise hardware for the software. Worse yet it took them 5 years to deliver it, surely after 3 years someone could have put their hand up and 'look this design is slower then what we already have' and then spent 2 years coming up with something else.

Perhaps AMD should licence ARM designs for Windows 8 or something they seem like a good fit.
 
Cool Breeze, would you mind running a few encoding tests?

Results at 4.0GHz and 4.5GHz with RAM at 1600-9-9-9-24-41 would be good.

Instructions here. Thanks.
 
I thought for a while about getting an 8120 but it just didnt offer much performance over my 1090t for the money, in cinebench i got 6.92 at 3.9ghz, if i'd had a better clocking chip it wouldnt be too far behind the 8120. so with my bro's pc breaking it seems a great chance for him to get a bargain 1090t and me to put that money towards a 2600/2700k which will give a reasonable boost. I'm keeping my 990fx board incase amd's next revision of bulldozer works wonders, and if not i'll pick up a cheap x6 or 8120 and use it as a render node. The 8120 doesnt seem to bad for the price depending what your doing, assuming you overclock it, the 8150 is just terrible value for the money whichever way you look at it. I'm sure there are merits to the architecture but there still seems a lot of work to do until it is seen as a contender.

For the money though it seems quite hard to recomend a 8120 over a 2500k, at least with the intel chip you have an upgrade path at the moment with amd there is a brickwall. I like where amd are going with fusion etc but i think it'll be a while before it all comes good because it seems to rely so much on the way software is coded.
 
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