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I'm in the same boat as others 960T w/ sabertooth 990fx.

I guess I'm waiting for PD... right now I can play any game I want without going sub 30fps and can encode smack dab in the middle of what I could if I got a 2500k or 2600k. The only compelling reason to upgrade right now would be 3d or e-peen.

If it does turn out to be 15% better than BD then I might pick up a PD. Though if Steamroller is going to be AM3+ too then that wouldn't make too much sense.
 
Another 990fx Sabertooth waiting for a decent CPU. After spending a few $k on the rest of my system I'm still running the $40 555 I bought a week after BD release...
 
leper84 said:
I'm in the same boat as others 960T w/ sabertooth 990fx.

If it does turn out to be 15% better than BD then I might pick up a PD. Though if Steamroller is going to be AM3+ too then that wouldn't make too much sense.
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Do you know if Steamroller is going to be released as an AM3+ for sure?

I'm also using a 960T with a sabertooth 990FX.
 
sequoia464 said:
Do you know if Steamroller is going to be released as an AM3+ for sure?

I'm also using a 960T with a sabertooth 990FX.
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I have no idea honestly. Which is why Im gonna wait for SR to release before I pull the trigger- if it is AM3+ I bet itll be the last and if its not I can pick up PD for cheap.
 
guskline said:
lifeblood, the reason I asked is though the Asrock 970 Extreme4 is an AM3+ mb ithink it is a 4 phase not 8 phase mb which might limit the OCing of the Bulldozer...
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I'm betting that PD will have better thermals. According to the Anandtech article on steamroller, PD was about reducing heat while SR will be about improving performance. We'll see if its true.

Of course, I'm not a big overclocker. I'll overclock some but not to the extent many of you do it. My wife uses my PC for her PhD research and reliability is critical.
 
PD should (in theory) have better power and thermal characteristics at stock. Whether this means it will OC better and draw less power when OC versus BD is unknown. At stock it will be a definite improvement vs FX8150.
 
T_Yamamoto said:
Its the lottery /shrug
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For sure - I have two of the 960's; One will not even boot when I try to unlock it - the other runs 6 cores at 3923 MHz - would probably run faster but I am cooling limited.

And yes, I will probably get a PD - I have a 6100 right now that worked fine for me (although this 960 seems to be faster for what I do) - the 6100 was fun to play with.
 
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Not necessarily waiting for it, but might be tempted to upgrade to it next Springish. Then again I might just decide to Overclock my current system for a year or so before replacing it.
 
sandorski said:
Not necessarily waiting for it, but might be tempted to upgrade to it next Springish. Then again I might just decide to Overclock my current system for a year or so before replacing it.
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Same boat. Not waiting for it, who has that kind of energy? My current system does what I want and is "mature" and "stable" tech for the most part, I don't really want to build something else. In another 6-8 months if I can drop in Piledriver and realize some additional performance I may do that.
 
guskline said:
Are you sure? My understanding was that the Steamroller was most likely NOT going to be an AM3+ socket; rather a new socket.
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My understanding is that PD was the last AM3+ CPU. Doesn't Desktop SR have an integrated GPU which absolutely requires a new socket? I'm pretty sure the latest AMD Roadmap showed Vishera as the last desktop CPU without an integrated GPU.
 
The Alias said:
http://www.obr-hardware.com/2012/09/preview-amd-fx-8350-piledriver-last.html
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hmm!!! not liking the look of that

Results analysis: AMD FX-8350 has probably base clocks at 4 GHz and Turbo max clock 4,2 GHz. Base clock is 400 MHz above FX-8150, it is 11.1 percents higher clock. Max Turbo clock is the same. In the massive "multi-thread" applications should performance rise somewhere between 10-11 percents. Only through higher CPU frequency. Next increase in performance is a matter of increased "IPC". But it has grown only little, wet dream of children and AMD fans has not been realized. IPC is increased up to a few percent. Comparision is not made on the same systems with the same mobo and BIOS. Look at table above:

In tested "single thread" workloads is "Piledriver" better from 1,8 to 5,7 percents. In average is IPC performance 4.0 percents above "Bulldozer" CPU. In "multi-threads" applicattions are results from 12,4 to 15,6 percents higher then FX-8150. Single + Multi = 9,9 percents in average. AMD processor FX-8350 is +/- 10 percents (in average) better then FX-8150 for the same price. This means performance of FX-8350 is on par with Core i7-2600K ... somewhere better, somewhere worst. But in average is Core i7-2600K good competitor for FX-8350. Pathetic result ...
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