Not really, Skyrim just favours high clock speed and/or IPC over number of cores...which shows just how bad Bulldozer is.
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So I wnet and bought a Bulldoser
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Not really, Skyrim just favours high clock speed and/or IPC over number of cores...which shows just how bad Bulldozer is.
Caporegime
You're obviously not looking properly.
Wouldn't be the first time...anyways, leave me alone with my prejudices against this CPU...
,for which i put off buying a Sandybridge for over 8mths, because i thought it would be a game changer...
A wasted 8mths....bitter and twisted?..not me..
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And what makes matters worse is now i cant bring myself to buy a Sandybridge setup, because Ivy Bridge is now just a few months away, so all in all, i'll have delayed buying a new system for a year...
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And what makes matters worse is now i cant bring myself to buy a Sandybridge setup, because Ivy Bridge is now just a few months away, so all in all, i'll have delayed buying a new system for a year...
I faced this dilemma... Then I realised I could buy an i5 now and an IB i7 next year
Some things are worth putting off - this is not one of them
Caporegime
Wouldn't be the first time...anyways, leave me alone with my prejudices against this CPU...
A wasted 8mths....bitter and twisted?..not me..
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And what makes matters worse is now i cant bring myself to buy a Sandybridge setup, because Ivy Bridge is now just a few months away, so all in all, i'll have delayed buying a new system for a year...
I think Bulldozer's a pile of crap too
And I've lost countless hundreds in the waiting of it, and going AMD, when I could have been Intel, for longer and had a better experience cheaper, funnily enough.
More proof, if any were needed, of what a complete POS Bulldozer is...
You have to be off your rocker to buy one of these turkeys for gaming....
Most of the games where you see such stark differences use the old Intel Compiler, you realise.
In such games or programs, there's simply no way for AMD to be competitive, even if technically their CPUs wiped the floor with Intel parts.
Soldato
is the IPC on the 3960X really that much better than a 2600K that it can give a 14frame boost even at ultra settings o.O Seems a bit dreamy if so lol
Caporegime
Except the Phenom II 980 is besting the FX8.
Are compilers used in games, which see the FX line up getting bested by the Phenom II line up, BD aware, in that performance tanks?
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I'm not really interested in the Intel results as such, more the complete lack of improvement compared to the Phenom II range..
That upsets me FAR more than comparing to any Intel CPU's...that's the REAL failure of Bulldozer as far as I'm concerned.
Then why did AthlonXP wipe the floor with Pentium 4? x86/x64 is the standard they both adhere to.
It's not Intel's fault AMD have butchered a standard core into two smaller less powerful ones, FX-8150 can still be competitive but it require 100% load on all 8 cores which is something rarely seen outside of encoding applications etc.
More proof, if any were needed, of what a complete POS Bulldozer is...
You have to be off your rocker to buy one of these turkeys for gaming....
Not really the games engine is ancient and uses barely more than one core, and for some reason it's shadows tend to choke up a core too.
Not exactly "proof" of anything, you'd have to be off your rocker to think it did.
Caporegime
But it's a very recent game, so of course it's relevant, this will likely continue to be the case until the next generation of consoles.
Associate
Has anybody looked at bulldozer for an ESX Box? (Given bulldozer is effectively a server design which has been branded for consumers)
Would seem to me the quad bulldozer isn't a bad option against an i3 2120 at similar money. Workload will be almost entirely integer. Won't be playing games.
Phenom idle power is too high for my liking, I have nothing particularly against intel (I have a lynnfield running my desktop, an Atom running my firewall, a Core2 generation server, i3 laptop), just pondering what's best for my money
For those who have taken the plunge, I'm a little concerned around motherboards. AM3+ boards seem to predate the FX range, and some would seem to need a bios upgrade to make it work. Obvious problem being I don't intend to buy a seperate chip so I can upgrade it!
Would seem to me the quad bulldozer isn't a bad option against an i3 2120 at similar money. Workload will be almost entirely integer. Won't be playing games.
Phenom idle power is too high for my liking, I have nothing particularly against intel (I have a lynnfield running my desktop, an Atom running my firewall, a Core2 generation server, i3 laptop), just pondering what's best for my money
For those who have taken the plunge, I'm a little concerned around motherboards. AM3+ boards seem to predate the FX range, and some would seem to need a bios upgrade to make it work. Obvious problem being I don't intend to buy a seperate chip so I can upgrade it!
Soldato
+1, It's both frustrating and mind blowing that AMD can spend 5 years developing a CPU that's SLOWER in a lot of scenarios then it's predecessor.
Why did AMD even bother going ahead with the launch of Bulldozer they must have known how badly it was going to be received, if the software technology isn't ready for it then wait until it is.
Caporegime
The problem is though, is that the 2120 isn't the best priced chip ever, seeing as the SB i5's aren't much more in price at all.
Cool Breeze/PCZ, thanks. AMD have about 6 months to sort it out otherwise it will have to be Intel on my next upgrade. Glad I didn't wait for BD and feel for those that did.
CAT-THE-FIFTH, I think it would be a good idea to add RAM speed to that chart.
CAT-THE-FIFTH, I think it would be a good idea to add RAM speed to that chart.
Lol did you take out a mortgage to buy it?
What? PCs are such an inexpensive hobby, I have to pity anyone that thinks an I5 2500k and Z68 board would need a mortgage.
Caporegime
Can I add these scores to my HandBrake chart on another forum??