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About this time last year, AMD's new Bulldozer-based FX series launched to bright-eyed system builders who expected the new architecture to challenge Intel's increasingly comfortable position in the upper-end processor market. Unfortunately, Bulldozer wasn't all it was cracked up to be. Its performance fell short of the then 9-month-old Sandy Bridge processors and in some cases, even failed to surpass the Phenom II range.
Following Bulldozer's mediocre reception, AMD insisted that the new architecture was still young and would serve as a "solid building block" for the FX series. Although hotfixes such as one that addressed an SMT inefficiency have boosted Bulldozer's performance slightly, little has changed with AMD's FX series in the last year -- until now, anyway, with today marking the arrival of the company's second-generation FX offerings.
AMD is refreshing its desktop processors with Piledriver, an enhanced version of Bulldozer that focuses on improving instructions per clock and frequency -- something we witnessed earlier this month when we tested the company's new Piledriver-powered Trinity APUs. In other words, instead of a major overhaul, Piledriver picks up where Bulldozer left off, which may disappoint those who wanted AMD to abandon the architecture.
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Humans are like that they are a greedy bunch...when something is around they don't appreciate it and when it's gone...they start regretting...
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Eric Talbott said:
The following review completely debunks this review: [link]
This review smells of Intel financial backing.
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Being a former hard core AMD user it is sad to see such crappy performance from them. my 3200+ lasted a long time and was a beast OCed, my phenom II 720 unlocked to a quad core, OCed well, and lasted through 3 generations of video cards. in fact it's still being used as a gaming machine. when it came time to build my new rig the amd 8350 had crossed my mind but the extra wattage for less than egual to an i5 3570k just wasn't worth it. plus intel supports pci-e 3.0, usb 3, plus extra features intel includes ... it was a no brainer. I really hope amd can get some good engineers to work on later cpus and make the best bang for the buck cpus again. gpus, now that's another story and I still use radeon.
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Without AMD "fanboism" your beloved Intel CPUs would cost twice the price, with an even more frequent chipset change with each CPU release. No competition for Intel = Intel sets whatever prices they want (like they already do with Instruction sets, owning the majority of the market they get to set to tone).
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