AMD Bulldozer FX 8150p vs Intel i7-2600k for gaming

1.It may end up faster, and probably will be faster in some apps- but at this stage the 50% over 1100T looks like AMD just sold every AMD diehard the Brooklyn Bridge.
2.Lab501 apparently bought a retail PIB. Also, apparently, they are relatively easy to buy off the shelf in Eastern Europe
3. Me being facetious. I wouldn't put it past AMD to tell reviewers that a fix is in the works and that their reviews should reflect that "fact".
4. ? Batch number ? Maybe to protect their retail source??? -Don't have an answer for that one.
6. An AMD board that couldn't attract a new CEO for how many months ? Also refer point 1 in post #55. AMD may put out good hardware...well, at least the ATI part of AMD does it would seem, but the marketing, management and PR is garbage unless this is the biggest ever snowjob in tech reviews - but to what point ?
This is a company that signed off on marketing an enthusiast grade microarch with the use of a....comic book....!

ROFLMAO... I forgot about that one. That was rough. (although may not be as bad a move as we think. I have met some of these 'anime' types, and they are rabid about it!)

"to what end?" The only reason I can come up with is that they are close or surpass and don't want to show their cards, but I cant really see Intel releasing a new chip etc in response anyway. I can see wanting to keep a tight lid on things if they were to really be on to something, and include the final Bios/code with the kit as they sent out a CVF with instructions to "review using this"???

Thats one of them I just can't make work. That is exponentially more damaging than just delay another month and release it fixed. expose (confirm) bad numbers with a "promise of a fix?' any first year marketing student knows if you say to a guy..." I will sell you the car for five or six hundred bucks"....he only heard five hundred. Once the numbers are out, a promised fix will mean little to nothing.
other than that, I have no idea. Like I said, it seems like it's an all or none approach. If it's the latter, it will be in college business and marketing textbooks by next year...
Chapter 5- Corporate Marketing................................AMD and the Ford Edsel

Looks like retail samples are popping up all over.

My guess is that we'll have something to compare to Lab501's tests fairly shortly.

Hey!!! you can keep cookies in there!:haha:

I am actually surprised Anand got one.
you don't think they will break NDA do you?

I am thinking Guru3D might have one of their notorious 'server hacks'

Real time Bulldozer benching video stream:

https://join.me/573-962-519


Overclock.net thread for the screenshots

well thats worthless. This guy actually has no idea why Vantage wont run.

I had high hopes when I first saw that they were going with a live stream. So much for spur-of-the-moment benchmarking!

Back to the drawing board...

Still more than a few question marks over BIOS, RAM, and running multiple processes...but it sure beat the hell out of watching the 49ers/Buc's game...but then, so would watching re-runs of last months SportsCenter

well anything does.
Hey the damn vikings won a damn game!

Don't get too excited. Beating Arizona at home should be pro forma...tho' it does knock the Vikes out of the Andrew Luck sweepstakes (Can't see the Colts NOT going 0-16 without PeyPey)

yeah, but I wasn't expecting one V this year....now that the stupid head Vikes management traded Favre..:haha:
The colts might have been the most single player based team in history, possibly only second to one of the Washington/Sonny Jurgenson teams of the early 70's


.....and BTW, what do you mean " the American Diet?" my diet is about as UN-american as it gets!
.....hows that for a delayed reaction? haha

Slow reflexes = Potassium deficiency

I eat plenty of baked potassiums!



how the hell did this one get by me!?
...must be the potassium deficiency I 'spect

STALKER 2 sneaking up on a 2012 launch

http://www.joystiq.com/2010/08/13/stalker-2-sneaking-up-on-a-2012-launch/

STALKER 2 got by you????

I thought you were well aware that it was coming out.
Here's the trailer

Oddly enough the same trailer is part of a cut scene in the Narodnaya Soljanka mod...and now I see Stalker 2 is going to require a full time internet connection*...which I infer from the accompanying blurb will work heavily against modding -weird since part of STALKER's ongoing (and growing) appeal is the large mod community behind it.

*Thanks to Matthew for the link (Weekend News roundup)

yeah I missed that one somehow. That was a surprising DRM statement from them. It would not surprise me to see that backed off to just a Steam type DRM. STALKER and Mod are synonymous.

If the Lab501 results are correct then a Phenom II X6 1100T at 4.2GHz runs SuperPI faster than a FX-8150P does at 5GHz, 16.975s versus 17.019s. That's kind of hard to believe, hopefully we'll see some reviews tomorrow that will settle the matter once and for all.

These guys are at it again. they get 3/4 through the video "review" and then state that they are using an Engineering Sample.


http://lenzfire.com/2011/10/amd-bulldozer-fx-8150-vs-phenom-ii-1100t-vs-i7-2600k-video-review-31439/

I'll need to see reviews from some reliable sites before I abandon ship. Seems like we should be well past the engineering sample phase. While it wouldn't surprise me to see the 2600K hold an edge I still expect Bulldozer to at least be in the chase.

Monstru (Lab501) obviously fully deserves all the plaudits for his overclocking exploits (MSI 2011 etc.). He is virtually the only reviewer to achieve 5GHz on these chips. 4.6G seems about the limit for air or all-in-one water loop...maybe your H100 would have better luck. Personally I'd say BD isn't worth the effort - and it's definitely an affront to the "FX" nameplate

Tom Logan (OC3D FX-8150 review)

horrible gaming performance , AMD rest in peace (like the undertaker said )

I would say Sandy for Gaming. 8 Cores is pointless in gaming... thx