(11/10/2011 10:32 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  Summary is that it's mostly a flop, with the Phenom II X6 1100T beating the top of the range FX-8150 in many single threaded benchmarks.

That's extremely disappointing.

But then again, with all the delays and stuff, you kind of suspect something might be going wrong somewhere.  I mean look at Fermi (geforce 400 series, which is like... delay delay delay and when it finally releases you find out it sucks).

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(11/10/2011 10:32 PM)ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote:  I'm finding it hard to believe a large architectural overhaul would result in less IPC than its predecessor.

Spend years developing something that is worse than it's predecessor like 1/2 the time, that sounds retarded as fuck.

If the review is true, then I'll probably be going Intel next time around (core i5).  Need non-shitty single threaded performance to emulate PS2 lol (PCSX2 only uses 2 cores).  Will loose out on the encoding side, but I don' really encode much stuff anymore nowadays, and any modern overclocked CPU is fast enough at encoding anyway.

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Also why did they bring back "FX" if Bulldozer is going to suck?  FX was the name given to the expensive as fuck high end chips back then in the Athlon days, which were the fastest in the market.  Not for mid-end chips that compete on price.

(This post was last modified: 24/10/2011 02:08 AM by Assassinator.)