yet another bulldozer question

[wotevajjjj]

Hey guys

My athlon quad is becomming to slow for my current rendering needs...

So now there are a few options. I already have the 990fxa-ud5 so going intel is not an option. My ram is 1600 mhz ripjaws x 2*4gb havent overclocked it yet..

Anyways, question is, do i go 960t and unlock, go 1090t or trow a faildozer in there ? Ive been looking at the benchmarks again and it really isnt to bad on most applications.. Ive got a darkrock pro so should get about 4.5 ghz out of it.. I dont see why i would go with the 8150 since i cant cool the extra bit of oc potential. What do you guys recommend ? also is diamond paste really that good ?

[ionicle]

I find my bulldozer to be easiely quicker than

My imac that runs a core i3 processor

If that helps?

[wotevajjjj]

ofcourse it is, question is if money wise its responsible

[ruthless_villain]

IC Diamond is supposed to be the best on the market

i wouldnt go the 960T because it isnt guaranteed to unlock is it?

and i would see if i can get a BD chip straight away as AMD are offering £20 cashback on the 8 core chips

[thestepster]

get a 1090T man second hand there cheap as hell i got mines for £70 and its pretty damn speedy last i seen the bulldozers would be hell of a lot more than double the price for a really minimal speed boost

plus bulldozer is a server chip amd should never of put them up for retail

[WiganflightsimSteve]

I am one of the FX 8150 Bulldozer owners, i got it a few weeks back with an MSi 990 FXA-GD80 board. It definitely has shown its potential on the benchmarks in a few areas, and i am sure a few bios updates/ patches down the road it will be fine. I have always gone for what is Now, rather than what was good last year!

I am experiencing a few issues though with drivers and software updates, i didn't do a full re-install when i fitted the new stuff and i am guessing there is conflict, thought i might have got away with it Full re-install on the cards i reckon.

[thestepster]

Originally Posted by WiganflightsimSteve

I have always gone for what is Now, rather than what was good last year!

that line made me laff hard ha ha ha ha bulldozer wont work 'properly' till windows 8 so uve bought something that 'might' be good in a year or that lol

[WiganflightsimSteve]

Originally Posted by thestepster

that line made me laff hard ha ha ha ha bulldozer wont work 'properly' till windows 8 so uve bought something that 'might' be good in a year or that lol

The patch that is due out will be pretty much what will be included in Windows 8, i am of course going to invest in Windows 8 on its release. I have no interest in Sandy bridge or Ivy bridge, or how wonderful they are, the Bulldozer is future proofing for my system and i am hoping the only upgrades i will have to make are more memory and the latest GPU

[thestepster]

lol sandy destroys bulldozers, ivybridge is another step up from that and will be even more, for a £200 cpu is slow as hell compared to only the £150 2500k and thats all u will be able to do with amd's high end chips cause this will be the last one from them for a very very very very long time if ever cause bulldozer was a huge fail

[WiganflightsimSteve]

Originally Posted by thestepster

lol sandy destroys bulldozers, ivybridge is another step up from that and will be even more, for a £200 cpu is slow as hell compared to only the £150 2500k and thats all u will be able to do with amd's high end chips cause this will be the last one from them for a very very very very long time if ever cause bulldozer was a huge fail

lol, as i said, my face aint Bovverd!

The chip was bought purely for the simulator rig. X-plane 10 utilizes as many cores as a processor has! As long as it is good in that area it is doing what i need, i can max everything out and also have quite a number of other planes running independant of themselves. That was the whole idea behind buying the Bulldozer