Bulldozer, FM2, or 1155

[JesseLactin]

I was wondering if I should go for an AM3+ board (Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5) for Bulldozer, or an 1155 board (not sure which, prob a Z68 chipset, please make a suggestion) or skip both and wait for FM2 to roll around for a 24/7 F@H rig (going into 12th grade, so I'll be doing school work too). If I was to go 1155, I'd pick the i7 2600K (~50,000 PPD), if I was to go AM3+, I'd pick the top model BD chip. Dunno about FM2 though, got no info.

This is for my new build around Christmas ( b-day is a week later, so combined gifts

). I got a Phenom II X4 955 @ 3.7GHz on a (crappy) Biostar A880GU3 board. It'll be liquid cooled (kinda matters, SB runs VERY cool, cooler than my Phenom II, actually).

I plan to piece together my build over the next few months as it's an expensive build (PSU - current one is almost out of spec , then WC kit - CPU runs warmer than I'd like , then a new case, etc).

My Oct-Dec build

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

FM2 wont be released till the beginning of 2012. As for AM3+ I would wait to see what BD delivers, I am not to informed with Intel but i herd something about Sandy Bridge E or something like that that i think will be 1155 and faster than than whats out now. BUT I think BD will be faster than SB and SB/E. just out of speculation.

 

[kilobravo]

i7-2600k 50k ppd,that wont happen.Most likely 38k ppd.Best at the moment is hexcore x58 i7 @ 4.0ghz+,they are 50k+ ppd.

But i would wait for BD to be released.With 8 native cores,think they will be great for folding.

 

[JesseLactin]

It wasn't reg SMP. It was -bigadv units (32K @ stock speed, ~50K @ 5.0GHz w/ HT on. Crazy voltages though. Over 1.44V). I do plan to wait a while. Whether BD has the GFlops or not, it's release will drop the price of 1155. I'm really glad I waited. 1366 is dead, AM3 is dead too, but I got an AM3 proc, so the immediate cost is $200 for a good mobo (Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5) and $320 for the BD proc. Since I got stuff I can't really use for what I want to do now: my HAF 922 can't do internal WC (limited in # of rads too), my PSU is old & is 485W, etc. I plan to upgrade to an AX 850, a XSPC RX240 (CPU only) and a new case with 15mm spacing for watercooling (maybe the Cosmos 2, but it's ~$350).

I can wait, what I'm running now will last me for a while. I Fold & play PC games, not edit videos professionally, so my CPU will last me for a while. I guess 1155 isn't worth it if BD delivers 30% or better performance over the i5/i7 CPUs. Maybe AMD has done it. I dunno yet, but BD's TDP is like 140W. They will be hot running chips. A thick 360 rad may not be total overkill. I hope it is though. I could just use an RX240 for the CPU.

 

[Luger718]

FM2 wont be released till the beginning of 2012.

where did you read this?

 

[nothingspecial]

I'd say the best bet if you're going for a Chirstmas build (as I am highly considering) is to go for a Z68-UD5 or UD7, get a cheap (£60ish) 1155 Pentium CPU and wait for the Ivy Bridge chips to turn up around March/April next year. The Z68 Gigabyte boards have a BIOS upgrade available now to handle the IB's and PCIe 3.0 (Source - Gigabyte themselves).

There's not much to wait for on the Ivy Bridge dedicated chipset (Z78?), apart from a few more SATA3 and USB3.0 on the chipset, but there's enough of those on the Z68 boards from third party chipsets to not really have to worry.

Only thing you might miss out on is Thunderbolt (Intel/Apple's new FireWire replacement), but whether that's going to be of any use is anyone's guess. My guess is it'll be mainly for external RAID enclosures, and perhaps high-end external studio quality soundcards.

 

[JesseLactin]

I got no use for Thunderbolt. I would like to see an 1155 board with a few more f**king PCIe slots / lanes. They all have usu. 1. Only the $350 boards have 3. I gotta say, if BD is a success, AMD will have 2 wins for them. They already win in the chipset department. 1155 IB looks good though. I'm hoping for a 6 core / 12 thread CPU.

I read that FM2 was a 2012 socket on AMD's roadmap. I don't know of an English website that has it though. I use Chrome, so it translated http://www.computerb...12-aufgetaucht/ into English with a few out of place untranslated words.

Edit: not in a hurry. my Phenom II is running at 4GHz.

 

[circit]

wait for bulldozer benchmarks if it slower then the i7 then get the i7 and for fm2 what are you going to be use for 10 cores?idk bout ivy haven't herd a lot about the specs

 

[Lollipop]

FM2 wont be released till the beginning of 2012. As for AM3+ I would wait to see what BD delivers, I am not to informed with Intel but i herd something about Sandy Bridge E or something like that that i think will be 1155 and faster than than whats out now. BUT I think BD will be faster than SB and SB/E. just out of speculation.

SB-e aka 2011 is the new 1366, and the new Ivy Bridge CPUs will fit the 1155 socket

 

[JesseLactin]

wait for bulldozer benchmarks if it slower then the i7 then get the i7 and for fm2 what are you going to be use for 10 cores?idk bout ivy haven't herd a lot about the specs

Folding at Home. I'm at rank 84, soon to be 83 after this WU ( 6996, ~2K points). My big problem with 1155 right now is how few PCIe slots it's M/Bs offer.

About FM2, I know that it'll be in 2011, not sure about a specific time though. My 4.0GHz Phenom II X4 955 is running F@H quite will (~5.5K PPD on most WUs).

Here's my certificate.

I actually got 55,907 points