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Wait for Bulldozer or upgrade to Sandybridge?

I went for an i5 in the end as my e2180 was really holding me back.
Bulldozer may be better but in the end its not like the i5 will suddenly become rubbish.
Only worry is when games require more than 4 cores but think Im ok on that one for a while yet!
 
i5 or bulldozer

I'm in the same position although as I have a q6600 @ 3.6ghz I'm not in a massive rush - I've decided to wait until bulldozer see how it is priced and compares to the i5 2500k in price/performance and then go with the better.

It means that in the meantime I can concentrate on upgrading other parts of my system as I have a 4850 gfx card and an old 19" Dell Ultrasharp that I could do with updating.

Although I have a Tuniq Tower cooler I am tempted to invest in one of h100 sealed unit water coolers - they've been getting pretty good reviews.

My plan is get these soon:
NVidia 470 or ATI 6850
24" Monitor
h100 water cooler

Get these later:
Bulldozer or I5 2500k CPU
Motherboard (probably ASUS)
8GB RAM (although 12gb triple would be nice)
64gb SSD
Windows 7 OEM (I'm still on Vista :eek:)
 
Go Sandy Bridge...you won't regret it....and if you do you can always upgrade to Ivy Bridge. Bulldozer is going to be a fail just like Phenom.
 
Bulldozer is about 5 weeks. Wait. Even if you don't buy it, Intel will almost certainly reduce pricing significantly and perhaps release new speed bumps for Sandy Bridge.

Re: Ivy Bridge, that's a minimum of 8 months away (soonest it launches is April the 1st of 2012).
 
I bought a 2500K three months ago because I was fed up of waiting and haven't regretted it for a moment but with that said at this point you may as well wait and see what Bulldozer brings to the table.
 
Mollari said:
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Well he did say what we're all thinking, Over the last 15 years i've had a lot of AMD Cpu's, I was a massive fan, My PC used to break down often under AMD's CPU's. Soon as i switched to Intel i've got had a problem, Ever. How i see if AMD are cheap and made cheaper abit slower, Intel you pay more but you get more.:o

*looks at her broken X2 4400 she paid £350 for in the day* *kicks it*.:rolleyes:
 
Unless you really need it I would wait. Worst case scenario is you wait a month for Bulldozer it ends up like everything has been pointing to worse in single threaded better in multi threaded so it competes with SandyBridge and AMD make Intel push their prices down.
 
I've had AMD and Intel builds since 1995 and neither have failed on me once.
Still to this day I keep having two PC's with either CPU... just to silence fanboy comments once and for all. Currently running Phenom II X6 1090T and Core i7 870.

I'd wait till BullDozer arrives just to get an a price/performance estimate before buying anything. And then its quite unimportant if it's AMD/Intel (to me) - get the most bang for the buck.
 
jorzeh said:
Well he did say what we're all thinking, Over the last 15 years i've had a lot of AMD Cpu's, I was a massive fan, My PC used to break down often under AMD's CPU's. Soon as i switched to Intel i've got had a problem, Ever. How i see if AMD are cheap and made cheaper abit slower, Intel you pay more but you get more.:o

*looks at her broken X2 4400 she paid £350 for in the day* *kicks it*.:rolleyes:
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What a load of rubbish on the CPU comment & if you meant mobo then you should have bought a better quality mobo.

Everyone can get a duff CPU, i personally have never but it does happen.
 
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ByMRK1 said:
Waiting for what?? The Bulldozer MAY be better than sandybridge, but what about when Intel's Ivy range come out?
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You could also wait for 2nd generation of BD and new AMD socket, how long do you want to wait?...... or you can just wait forever.

There is a plus point waiting for BD(which is a very short wait compared to Ivy bridge) because it may effect pricing on i5/i7 CPU's depending on how well or bad it does so either way you win.
 
gurusan said:
Go Sandy Bridge...you won't regret it....and if you do you can always upgrade to Ivy Bridge. Bulldozer is going to be a fail just like Phenom.
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I know some people will eat their words if bulldozer does match or surpass sandy bridge.
 
indeed, half the forum is going to have to eat some humble pie for jumping to the conclusion that Bulldozer will be bad because Phenom II didn't beat Intel, failing to remember the fact it is a total redesign and a bold one at that for AMD, just wish they would appear already, got an AM3+ board sitting here with nothing currently occupying the socket. ;)
 
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