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Xen on 13 October 2011
smbu2000 said:

Oh, looks like somebody made one of those hitler videos about Bulldozer, hehe.

http://youtu.be/SArxcnpXStE

Lol, that is one of the better ones.

After overlooking lots of material thanks to the bulldozer disappointment, I think that I'm going with the 2600k. The decoding capabilities are awesome and the high frequencies possible on it will ensure strong Wii/GC/PS2 emulation abilities. I hope that Ivy Bridge comes soon so it drops in price!



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superchunk on 13 October 2011

meh, looks nice but I won't be building a new PC for a while longer.... maybe 2013... that'd be 5 years after last.



SnesTea on 14 October 2011

I think this has been the most lively thread in PC discussion since SC2 came out D:

Anyway, I like the FX 8150 but will hold off until Piledriver comes out/.



Xen on 14 October 2011

^Sadly because Bulldozer is a wash =/



MARCUSDJACKSON on 14 October 2011

sounds awesume, now let me leave before i get a tech overload.



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zarx on 14 October 2011
Snesboy said:
I think this has been the most lively thread in PC discussion since SC2 came out D:

Anyway, I like the FX 8150 but will hold off until Piledriver comes out/.


My minecraft thread takes that honor, then my The Witcher 2 thread, then guild wars 2, then there are the screenshot threads.

Try harder man, I am still king of PC on these boards ; )



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SnesTea on 15 October 2011
zarx said:
Snesboy said:
I think this has been the most lively thread in PC discussion since SC2 came out D:

Anyway, I like the FX 8150 but will hold off until Piledriver comes out/.


My minecraft thread takes that honor, then my The Witcher 2 thread, then guild wars 2, then there are the screenshot threads.

Try harder man, I am still king of PC on these boards ; )

I wasn't counting dedicated threads. Just random ones.



zarx on 15 October 2011
Snesboy said:
zarx said:
Snesboy said:
I think this has been the most lively thread in PC discussion since SC2 came out D:

Anyway, I like the FX 8150 but will hold off until Piledriver comes out/.


My minecraft thread takes that honor, then my The Witcher 2 thread, then guild wars 2, then there are the screenshot threads.

Try harder man, I am still king of PC on these boards ; )

I wasn't counting dedicated threads. Just random ones.


Then why did you use SC2 as your jumping off point? Clearly you are just trying to save face in the err, face, of my magnificence! lol

there is still 

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but if we keep posting about this, this thread could have real legs...

Well I'm not posting in this thread again that's for sure ; )



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Scoobes on 15 October 2011
Slimebeast said:
I am so sad. Is AMD done now?

As a company I think they'll be fine. The Bulldozer is good for multi-threaded applications so should be good in the lucrative server market but the power draw is a concern. At the other end of the spectrum, the Fusion line seem to be selling well in laptops, it's only the gaming/enthusiast users they've really screwed up on and I think that's more down to poor marketing. Seriously, why hype something with the FX names, the world record overclock, the marketing slides etc. if the chip is worse then current offerings from Intel and even fails on price/performance? They had to know reviews would be brutal.

Bizzarely, I think Bulldozer is ahed of its time. AMD gambled that they'd be more multi-threaded programs by this point, but they aren't. Sadly, by the time software devs catch up with the new architecture there'll be plenty of superior alternatives (from both Intel and AMD) anyway that there's no point in getting Bulldozer now.




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Xen on 15 October 2011
Scoobes said:
Slimebeast said:
I am so sad. Is AMD done now?

As a company I think they'll be fine. The Bulldozer is good for multi-threaded applications so should be good in the lucrative server market but the power draw is a concern. At the other end of the spectrum, the Fusion line seem to be selling well in laptops, it's only the gaming/enthusiast users they've really screwed up on and I think that's more down to poor marketing. Seriously, why hype something with the FX names, the world record overclock, the marketing slides etc. if the chip is worse then current offerings from Intel and even fails on price/performance? They had to know reviews would be brutal.

Bizzarely, I think Bulldozer is ahed of its time. AMD gambled that they'd be more multi-threaded programs by this point, but they aren't. Sadly, by the time software devs catch up with the new architecture there'll be plenty of superior alternatives (from both Intel and AMD) anyway that there's no point in getting Bulldozer now.

I think so too. And I'd totally grab a zambezi CPU if anything that doesn't crunch threads like crazy was so damn weak compared to the 2600k, which is very very very nicely priced.