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skipsneeky2 said:
Their mistake selling 990x and 990fx motherboards before the release of its featured to come processor.

The value deduction isn't gonna make many now 990fx owners feel any better the selling point to me was the support of sli...two gtx580s for example with a 8150 can you just imagine the power it would pull?

It would be a furnace .
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Yes, I blew my power budget with my sli 460s. I have a 550w psu and the two cards will peak at around 400w. Doesn't leave much toom for this failure of a CPU.
 
skipsneeky2 said:
Their mistake selling 990x and 990fx motherboards before the release of its featured to come processor.

The value deduction isn't gonna make many now 990fx owners feel any better the selling point to me was the support of sli...two gtx580s for example with a 8150 can you just imagine the power it would pull?

It would be a furnace .
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Amd is effectively left with no processor that wouldn't bottleneck two gtx580's. For the extreme gamer, with dual gpus, amd isnt a viable alternative.
 
drizek said:
Yes, I blew my power budget with my sli 460s. I have a 550w psu and the two cards will peak at around 400w. Doesn't leave much toom for this failure of a CPU.
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two over clocked gtx460s can easily consume well over 400 watts all by themselves.
 
Nice review in polish:
http://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_amd_fx8150_bulldozer_kontra_intel_sandy_bridge?page=0,0
Google translate:
http://translate.google.com/transla..._bulldozer_kontra_intel_sandy_bridge?page=0,0

List of processors participating in the tests:
AMD FX-8150
AMD FX-6100 - Simulation
AMD FX-4170 - Simulation
AMD FX-4100 - Simulation
AMD-3850 A8
Phenom II X6 1090T
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X3 740
Phenom II X2 555
Core i7 2600k
Core i5 2500K
Core i3 2100
Pentium G840
Core i7 875K
Core i5 760
Core i5 661
Core i3 560
 
Ancalagon44 said:
Isnt it amazing that BD is 2 billion transistors and cannot compete with a 1.16 billion transistor Intel CPU?

Thats how bad it is. They should abort the whole thing right now.
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Note that the 1.16 billion transistor Intel CPU has a gigantic integrated GPU eating its transistor budget.
 
v220 said:
Nice review in polish:
http://www.purepc.pl/procesory/test_amd_fx8150_bulldozer_kontra_intel_sandy_bridge?page=0,0
Google translate:
http://translate.google.com/transla..._bulldozer_kontra_intel_sandy_bridge?page=0,0

List of processors participating in the tests:
AMD FX-8150
AMD FX-6100 - Simulation
AMD FX-4170 - Simulation
AMD FX-4100 - Simulation
AMD-3850 A8
Phenom II X6 1090T
Phenom II X4 955
Phenom II X3 740
Phenom II X2 555
Core i7 2600k
Core i5 2500K
Core i3 2100
Pentium G840
Core i7 875K
Core i5 760
Core i5 661
Core i3 560
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8150 is Almost 400w overclocked! That's insane.
 
carnage10 said:
AMD were right about not releasing early benchmarks in fear of cannibilizing their current sales. Except it wouldnt have been due to a halt of Phenom II sales because of people holding off buying and waiting for BD causing a backlog of unsellable inventory, but for people realizing that BD wasn't worth waiting for and buying SB.
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That's exactly right. I was waiting for BD before I upgraded, but my choices were either a BD or an i7 -- no Phenoms. Then the June launch was pushed into August. When the rumored August launch was pushed to October, I knew BD was very likely going to be a turd so I went ahead and bought an i7-2600K and board. It looks like my only mistake was not upgrading a few months earlier. 😀
 
DeeDot78 said:
Amd is effectively left with no processor that wouldn't bottleneck two gtx580's. For the extreme gamer, with dual gpus, amd isnt a viable alternative.
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I wanted to say this also but had no physical proof or sli benchmarks but yes a excellent point:thumbsup:
 
Ugh, a bit worse and better than I thought. Didn't think it'd slot in between the 2500k and 2600k in heavily multi threaded apps, but didn't think it'd lose to Phenom II in single threaded apps. Was figuring its single threading perf was going to be slightly higher, and the multi threading perf slightly lower. The power consumption is also insane. As such, this CPU is almost worthless for me. Getting a 2500k in a week.
 
I'm a 990FX board owner.... and probably still would have bought a 8150 after reviews today as I really do not want the hassel of taking apart my rig again... and for gaming, it still offers enough performance.

I am just sickened about the Power Consumption of a Overclocked bulldozer. It makes SLI/Crossfire setups require insane power supplies. I can't support BD. Piledriver, you better work on efficiency big time.

Sticking to the Thuban core for this generation.
 
DeeDot78 said:
8150 is Almost 400w overclocked! That's insane.
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Overclocking an FX-8150 is like taking an overclocked 2500k and adding an HD6950 2GB as a cherry on top of it.

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Looks like the market for $70+ supercoolers is back!! Thermalright, Prolimatech, Noctua must be having an office party today 😉
 
RussianSensation said:
Overclocking an FX-8150 is like taking an overclocked 2500k and adding an HD6950 2GB as a cherry on top of it.

Looks like the market for $70+ supercoolers is back!! Thermalright, Prolimatech, Noctua must be having an office party today 😉
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Extra 170W for FX-4170 to match a i3-2100 in gaming? YES please!
 
Screw it. I'm disapointed, but I wanted a new CPU and don't want old tech... My system was built for BD and I don't want to tear it apart and lose money on ebay.

I think I may still go with it. Debating. the 1035T is a fill in.
 
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adam_the_giant said:
Screw it. I'm disapointed, but I wanted a new CPU and don't want old tech... My system was built for BD and I don't want to tear it apart and lose money on ebay.

I think I may still go with it. Debating. the 1035T is a fill in.
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Just pulled the trigger... Just ordered a FX-8120. New toy to play with.

I waited this long and had my system built and ready for it.

I have a big PSU and don't care about my power bill.

I pulled the trigger. For some reason I'm still happy to be finally getting one to tinker with.

Decided in the end I'd rather have newer tech than old.
 
adam_the_giant said:
Just pulled the trigger... Just ordered a FX-8120. New toy to play with.

I waited this long and had my system built and ready for it.

I have a big PSU and don't care about my power bill.

I pulled the trigger. For some reason I'm still happy to be finally getting one to tinker with.

Decided in the end I'd rather have newer tech than old.
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If you couldn't get your 1035 to 4ghz, why not. You got the PSU. I just couldn't with my 1090t at 4.1ghz.
 
If I were an AMD fan, I would also be worried about their 7000 series GPU's that were delayed. Something is going on there.

Anyways crap like this release is what made me jump off the AMD fanboy wagon years ago.
 
richierich1212 said:
What I don't get is even with overclocking there is hardly any performance increase from stock. *scratches head*. Mind boggling.
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We saw the same thing when Netburst was at the end of its rope. Not a lot of gains from 3 to 4ghz. Some architechtures just don't scale well.

The fact that even to start with the scaling is poor is a terrible sign.
 
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