AMD Bulldozer official release and reviews. - Page 19

Perscienter

957 Posts

October 17 2011 08:33 GMT

#361

On October 14 2011 11:44 ilovelings wrote:
The interwebz is going crazy with this. It's not even funny anymore.

bull shit dozer.

Writes the spelling-retard?

Belial88

United States5217 Posts

January 04 2012 15:41 GMT

#362

So... Bulldozer really is shit?

Man, that really is dissapointing. I remember i built this PC with an Athlon ii x3 450 3.2ghz 1.4v 2gb nb, and overclocked/unlocked it to x4 3.415ghz 1.472v 2.53gb nb. I love my CPU. Everyone was hyping about the imminent Bulldozer back then (man they really delayed it), and I was thinking of getting it when it came out a year later.

What about the future bulldozers? Are they going to be good?

Does anyone here have a Bulldozer?

edit: on a sidenote, wtf is up with those APUs, dragon, etc. why would anyone use one of those?

Stress

United States980 Posts

January 04 2012 15:53 GMT

#363

Intel beats AMD in performance at every price point. Bulldozer is only slightly better in performance than a Phenom 2 and in some cases it is worse. They are supposed to be releasing an update to improve performance with windows 7 and server versions but by the time that is released Intel will have released Ivy Bridge. Basically, Bulldozer is a pile of shit and you are better off going Intel if you are looking for the most performance out of your money.

skyR

Canada13817 Posts

January 04 2012 16:24 GMT

#364

Piledriver will improve on Bulldozer and I guess it's going to be a good option for multi-threaded tasks if you can't afford a native hex or octo Ivybridge.

Llanos are good for low-end gaming notebooks, small form factor PCs, and so on.

Laids

United Kingdom596 Posts

January 04 2012 17:01 GMT

#365

I was considering buying the 4200(?) bulldozer on amazon, it was £89, was could possibly go wrong?

Yeah I'm glad I didn't, I'l stick with my x4 630 Propus.

Also can someone explain how AMD went from awesome with the athlonx2 64FX (which I owned for 6 years and was awesome) to basically a bargain bin processor developer. Don't get me wrong, my 630 Propus is amazing value for money and lets me play games like Skyrim on medium-high, BF3 on high and SWTOR or all high, but sometimes I feel it's like Intel has invented the wheel and AMD are still trying to figure out how to match it.

Shikyo

Finland33997 Posts

January 04 2012 17:13 GMT

#366

Bulldozer doesn't work with like 10 steam games(They won't start up at all) which is pretty shitty. Also they consume way too much power and such in single-core performance.

In my opinion the best AMD CPU to get atm is Phenom II x4 955.

Piledrivers could be good, also Llanos are good if you don't want a discrete graphics card and at least their power consumption is normal(Close to sandybridge, not even comparable to athlons or phenoms)

Skaminator

112 Posts

January 04 2012 17:34 GMT

#367

On January 05 2012 02:13 Shikyo wrote:
In my opinion the best AMD CPU to get atm is Phenom II x4 955.

Ive heard they have tendency to burn mobos.

Belial88

United States5217 Posts

January 04 2012 17:45 GMT

#368

In general they are a bit warmer than the athlons due to the L3 cache, but they aren't particularly hot, although they overclock really well in regards to stability, so are generally temperature limited. So what you get is a bunch of idiots getting motherboards that shit out. MSi boards, for example, have really shitty VRMs, although in general they are a quality brand with good service (although my MSi gpu is a lemon, they have offered to replace it, but i cant go 2 weeks without a gpu, even if i have to underclock it by 800 mhz).

So i woulndt say they have a tendency to burn motherboards. cant really trust what people say about overclocking, since most people don't know what they are doing.

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