Why so many HW sites refuse to review so many AMD CPUs?

[3DVagabond]

I was going to mention this as well. No NDA breach at all and still raped by amd. AMD is not the saint alot of people make them out to be, especially on this forum in particular.

I missed AMD's response to Lab501. Can you link to it, please?

 

[Idontcare]

I missed AMD's response to Lab501. Can you link to it, please?

LOL, that can't be done, link me to any AMD response to any specific (by name) leak prior to the NDA being lifted.

You won't even find them mentioning OBR by name. They were quite careful in choosing their words while still making sure the message was received.

 

[3DVagabond]

LOL, that can't be done, link me to any AMD response to any specific (by name) leak prior to the NDA being lifted.

You won't even find them mentioning OBR by name. They were quite careful in choosing their words while still making sure the message was received.

Fine. Link me to the carefully chosen words. Or, if it's something you can't find easily, because it was part of some other statement, just repeat it as you remember it. I have never seen any of this and would like to know what they've done.

 

[RussianSensation]

OP, do u know several Chinese sites claim BD beats 2500 handily?

North Korea won the World Cup of soccer in 2010

Hardly anyone reviewed anything other than FX-8150 probably because AMD wouldn't provide reviewers with anything other than their top end CPU. It makes sense why AMD made sure only their top-of-the-line CPU was to be reviewed since they wanted to save themselves the embarrassment of reviewing the FX-4100 and 6100 series in light of a $125 960T and a $160 X6 1090T or i5-2400. Ironically, a $279.99 FX-8150 couldn't even a 2500k, flopped hard against a 2600k, and looked like an overpriced pile vs. a $160 X6 1090T.

Some hilarious reviews on Newegg:

1) "8 cores and a multi tasking beast. Ya it's may not be as fast as the top intel chip but also 1/4 the cost." [apparently 2500k/2600k CPUs don't exist in this person's world]

2) "Fast! Handbrake encoding is crazy fast. This so far has beat my friends I7 2600K by almost 100 FPS in Handbrake." [Ok, we believe you...]

3) "I've been using AMD products for 15 years. Ever since I had my first AMD system I was so impressed I never looked back. So Intel gains a slight advantage now and then for ten times the money."

4) "The 8120 beat the I5 2500k in almost all the benchmarks." [facepalm]

5) "Beautiful processor, fantastic capabilities at an affordable price. It is much cheaper than the price my old Athlon X2 4400 when I purchased it about five years ago." [Ya, so is every CPU outside of 990X...]

6) "This product has been overclocked to 5.2Ghz with any mobo out there for it." [This guy must have a garage full of LN2, lifetime supply]

7) "8 cores for all apps that will take advantage of them. This surpasses I7 2500 and 2600 due to the fact it has more cores to process the data." [This one is my favourite. Marketing 101]

I can't wait to read more reviews of FX-8150 giving us performance "almost" as fast as Intel CPUs that cost 4-10x as much.

 

[Caza]

A Llano APU with the GPU disabled. Good to see some benchmarks finally. I thought it might OC higher being 32nm, but still not bad for the price.

I think these are OEM only which is why you don't see them being reviewed much.