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What would you choose 1090T or Bulldozer?

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Vdubchaos said:
You are in denial
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Huh?

At this point, why go with a 1090T over a 8120?

If you got a AM3+ board, Go BD

Its not what everyone expected, but its already at Thuban performance... and I'm sure we will see tweaks, bios updates, etc come along to pull it ahead.

I'm not in denial, I'm a realist. If I could rebuild today I'd go Intel too.
 
adam_the_giant said:
Huh?

At this point, why go with a 1090T over a 8120?

If you got a AM3+ board, Go BD

Its not what everyone expected, but its already at Thuban performance... and I'm sure we will see tweaks, bios updates, etc come along to pull it ahead.

I'm not in denial, I'm a realist. If I could rebuild today I'd go Intel too.
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Also sometimes it's good to feel different. You'll also have a shiney new toy to play with! Imagine the fun you can have in the Bulldozers appreciation thread and watching it develop.

I just hope AMD release a Windows 7 patch to better use the scheduler for you soon. Either way, it's not as if its lagging for general use. It will feel fast.

I can understand your decision, but a cheap x6 is also tempting considering the prices.
 
i would go with the thuban, but i would make sure i get a AM3+ board so i can wait for bulldozer respin and see if it fares any better.

in other words hopefully have a drop in replacement down the road thats an upgrade.
 
How about a choice between these two - the fx6100 for $190 or a Phenom II X4 960T for $125

The 960T is an unlocked 4 core Thuban - the one review I found on it was able to enable both of the extra cores.

I don't game at all, use office apps but mostly considering a blueprint takeoff program that uses quite a few tiffs and pdf's
 
Keeping my eyes out for a ~$130 1090T, just hope the ga990fxa-ud3 bios issues get sorted out by then. Why can't their 990fx board bios stably support x6 and BD at the same time?
 
Thinking about it, but I've had so-so luck with unlocks being stable. Granted the 45nm process is very mature. Any stats on unlock success rate for the 960T?
 
This appears to have been just released, can only find the one review at newegg - that ONE was successful.

Not really much to go on. I have one ordered, I'll post back here either way on the unlock.
 
I think after these reviews I'm just gonna stick with my 1090t till Piledriver is released. Why purchase BD now just to get PD in less than a year?
 
adam_the_giant said:
Huh?

At this point, why go with a 1090T over a 8120?

If you got a AM3+ board, Go BD
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Because the 1090T is cheaper and performs better in basically any single-threaded applications currently out and can even best BD in several multi-threaded apps (eg games for one, but there are enough other examples)

Now obviously if you run only one of those apps that run fine under BD - go for it, but in general? I'm not too sure about that. Haven't seen any extensive OC benchmarks yet, but considering its power consumption without OCing that doesn't look too great either.
 
For a budget rig, I would choose 1090T over Intel equivalent since the MicroCenter combo deals are still very hot. The FX-8150 needs to drop under $200 for me to even consider it.
 
gevorg said:
For a budget rig, I would choose 1090T over Intel equivalent since the MicroCenter combo deals are still very hot. The FX-8150 needs to drop under $200 for me to even consider it.
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Exactly. microcenter deals on AMD processors are where its at. $169 with a free motherboard.
 
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