• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

Sorry AMD.

badcompany said:
AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8120@8150 for £115 after cashback now, got to be best cpu in that price range now?
Click to expand...

For certain situations yes (This is why I wish Intel had lower priced i5's)
It's been under 100 pound with cash back previously, 115 after cash back is actually quite poor for the FX8120 in recent times.
For highly threaded situations it offers unbeatable price/performance, and even more so when it was sub 100 after cash back.
For general usage it's a mixed bag, as you probably won't notice a difference between a plethora of CPU's from both vendors.
 
Last edited:
Martini1991 said:
For certain situations yes (This is why I wish Intel had lower priced i5's)
It's been under 100 pound with cash back previously, 115 after cash back is actually quite poor for the FX8120 in recent times.
For highly threaded situations it offers unbeatable price/performance, and even more so when it was sub 100 after cash back.
For general usage it's a mixed bag, as you probably won't notice a difference between a plethora of CPU's from both vendors.
Click to expand...

For general usage you won't notice the difference between most CPU's from the last 3 years or so. If you play BF3 or use really CPU intensive applications that don't multithread very well you won't benefit from Bulldozer. If you constantly use apps that can utilise all cores like encoding video in Handbrake then Bulldozer will kick some ass.

Since I'm putting together a NAS as a home-media server and will be ripping my bluray collection to it, Bulldozer is tempting me. But if they can hurry up with piledriver then that could be the one to go for. Improving BD's single threaded performance and pushing even further in multi-threaded apps would clawback territory from Sandy and Ivy. It all depends on how people seek to use their PC's.
 
Last edited:
james.miller said:
buying more hard drive space and havining 1:1 rips makes more sense to me than buying a cpu to re-encode the movies to save a few gb .
Click to expand...
I was intending to rip losslessly. Buying bigger drives is all well and good but by the time I've spent the money on an Intel CPU I'll have less cash available for Drive space. By going this route I can make my NAS more efficient space wise and also get bigger drives. And in day to day use I'll see no difference.
 
elroberto said:
For general usage you won't notice the difference between most CPU's from the last 3 years or so. If you play BF3 or use really CPU intensive applications that don't multithread very well you won't benefit from Bulldozer. If you constantly use apps that can utilise all cores like encoding video in Handbrake then Bulldozer will kick some ass.
Click to expand...

Not meaning to nitpick (yet doing it anyway :p), from remembering the reviews, I think BF3 is one of the few gaming exceptions where bulldozer does well, but yes I agree with the general sentiment.
 
My FX-8150 cost me £115 after cash back, and I have no qualms about it's performance, especially when paired with my GTX 670.
I'm under no illusion - it's not going to win any awards, but it spared me from having to replace my motherboard, and it overclocks like a beast!
 
Ollie1132 said:
lol. yeah thatll be release Q3 2012... and Haswell gets released Q2 2013... Unless piledriver is a serious stepup in performance (we can but pray) else... if Piledriver is another Bulldozer... then Haswell will blow it out of the water.
Click to expand...

That we don't know... Ivybridge was underwhelming , even a step or two backwards in some respects so Intel aren't immune to their own problems.
 
^^^^ Steamrooler is out not long after Haswell and then xavier a year after that.

It has to be said; the rumour mill is that Piledriver will be missed out completely, instead to concentrate on Steamrooler and getting it on the shelves sooner than originally planed, which was late in 2013.
 
humbug said:
^^^^ Steamrooler is out not long after Haswell and then xavier a year after that.

It has to be said; the rumour mill is that Piledriver will be missed out completely, instead to concentrate on Steamrooler and getting it on the shelves sooner than originally planed, which was late in 2013.
Click to expand...

Steamroller will be out about 1 year from now, by the majority of reports.

If it really is as good as it should be, with the original AMD64 designers back on AMD's staff, then I'll sell my 2500k and welcome AMD back into my life with open arms :p

But only if it's better than my 2500k, I'm not downgrading :p
 
FoxEye said:
Steamroller will be out about 1 year from now, by the majority of reports.

If it really is as good as it should be, with the original AMD64 designers back on AMD's staff, then I'll sell my 2500k and welcome AMD back into my life with open arms :p

But only if it's better than my 2500k, I'm not downgrading :p
Click to expand...

They re-hired the original design team? If that's true then there may yet be hope for AMD.
 
bemaniac said:
do amd make anything that won't bottleneck 3 of their top cards? Seems weird that the only way to fully utilise their own tri-fire and quad-fire fully is to not buy their own processors.
Click to expand...

No they don't.
Even from Intel you'd need a heavily clocked CPU and even that would bottleneck in some cases at some resolutions.

Then again, at 3 7970's or whatever you'll be at using x1440 or x1600 or Eyefinity etc.
 
I went amd don't ask me why got something to do with other parts being a bit cheaper.

This is what i went with all from overclockers :P.

Item Qty Price
AMD Bulldozer FX-8 Eight Core 8150 Black Edition 3.60Ghz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail with H20 Cooler with FREE Dirt Showdown PC Game 1 £179.99
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional AMD 990FX (Socket AM3+) DDR3 ATX Motherboard 1 £131.66
Seagate Momentus XT 750GB Hybrid SATA-II 2.5" 7200RPM 32MB 2 £179.98
Corsair Dominator 16GB (2x8GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C10 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMP16GX3M2A1600C10) 1 £66.66
Sub Total: £558.29
DPD Next Day Parcel Shipping: £9.50
Total Vat: £113.56
Total inc Vat: £681.35
 
Last edited:
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom