[OFFICIAL] Bulldozer Reviews Thread - AnandTech Review Posted

[apoppin]

Well if you had sent me a PM or something saying you had a review... I had no idea.

i'm sorry. It just struck me as funny. That's all.

i have never asked for my reviews to be listed in any thread. It isn't good etiquette imo. If someone finds and posts it, however, that is fine with me.

My review was a day late and not too many people saw it as we missed the big traffic crunch (i got up a Summary Chart) the next morning. i was under severe time pressure with two defective AM3+ MBs and had only 4 days to do the testing and the writing.

Anyway, the important part of the review - and the conclusion - comes from me next week - after i finish overclocked testing with HD 6970 CF and X3 TriFire as well as GTX 580/580SLI. And then i put FX-8150 under water.

i will say one thing; once it is overclocked, CrossFire scales nicely again. i think AMD mostly missed higher clocks as their main target; if FX 8150 came out at 4.2GHz as a base (w/turbo to 4.8GHz), it would not have been received so negatively

BtW, that list isn't "official", i believe it is Peter Amos' blog on AMD

 

[BlueBlazer]

That makes at least 2 2500k sold yesterday:thumbsup:

One of the "quiet" guys finally shows up. Linus (the other one, not the Linux guy) finally came around to benchmark the FX8150 against i5 2500K. >>> AMD Bulldozer FX-8150 vs Intel Core i5 2500K 8-Core Gaming Benchmarks Linus Tech Tips

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He couldn't run Witcher 2 though. Nonetheless, the results and conclusion for gaming performance still remains the same, still in favor of the cheaper i5 2500K. He talks about platform costs like SLI and CrossFireX boards, but still hasn't tested the FX-8150 in SLI or CrossFireX though.

Now waiting for the other guy at TigerDirect TV to test his FX-8120. He's gonna be using the HD6990, which would be more interesting (less GPU limitations).

 

[seanbigdealer]

I am about to build a server, mainly for hosting virtual machines. I plan on using Citrix Xenserver, and having a file server - Citrix XenApp lab, etc.

With that, I want 32-64GB RAM. I am hoping for G34 based Bulldozer-based Opterons so I can take advantage of low 8GB ECC Registered prices.

Anyone have any other options that will be competitive to this?

 

[Ajay]

I think you are in the wrong thread.

 

[JustMe21]

Here's a Bulldozer review on Linux.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_fx8150_bulldozer&num=1