AMD Bulldozer FX-8150

[tswantek]

i did fine until the volts rise up to 1.5 and beyond. and thats only with a prime test after about an hour. but with the 360mm rad before it and the two scythes pushing and pulling, and also the swifttech pump I've managed to cool the water before it gets to the tecs enough to lower the temps even more. Ive tested it by unplugging them and it dropps the temps by at least 7 or 8 C.

[Earthmonger]

Caseking has the FX chips listed as being in stock on October 28th. That's good! It means they still have time to cancel their order.

[Drdeath]

I am running my 1090t right now. And it is the latest bios and i have verified it. I am extremely dissapointed with amd. I have been loyal from the beginning of my comp days to them and this is the straw thats cracking my back. I've spent 10000s of thousands on there chips for builds and even bought stock. :///////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\

If your running a Phenom means a bad FX chip????

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Very interesting. Makes sence..

explains why its neck and neck with i5

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Why BD failed? AMD Ex-Employee speaks out!

On paper bulldozer is a lovely chip. Bulldozer was on the drawing board (people were even working on it) even back when I was there. All I can say is that by the time you see silicon for sale, it will be a lot less impressive, both in its own terms and when compared to what Intel will be offering. (Because I have no faith AMD knows how to actually design chips anymore). I don’t really want to reveal what I know about Bulldozer from my time at AMD.

What did happen is that management decided there SHOULD BE such cross-engineering ,which meant we had to stop hand-crafting our CPU designs and switch to an SoC design style. This results in giving up a lot of performance, chip area, and efficiency. The reason DEC Alphas were always much faster than anything else is they designed each transistor by hand. Intel and AMD had always done so at least for the critical parts of the chip. That changed before I left – they started to rely on synthesis tools, automatic place and route tools, etc. I had been in charge of our design flow in the years before I left, and I had tested these tools by asking the companies who sold them to design blocks (adders, multipliers, etc.) using their tools. I let them take as long as they wanted. They always came back to me with designs that were 20% bigger, and 20% slower than our hand-crafted designs, and which suffered from electromigration and other problems.

That is now how AMD designs chips. I’m sure it will turn out well for them [/sarcasm]

BTW, you ask how AMD could have competed? Well, for one thing, the could have leveraged K8 and the K8 team’s success and design techniques instead of wasting years of time on a project that eventually got cancelled using people that had never achieved any success. It took Intel years to come out with Nehalem, and AMD could have been so far ahead by that point that they’d have enough money in the bank that they wouldn’t have to accept a low-ball settlement offer in the antitrust suit and they wouldn’t have to sell off their fabs.

http://www.insideris.com/amd-spreads...ee-speaks-out/

[Drdeath]

Sounds like a sore loser to me...

[4hams]

Thanks for the great review Jim!

About what I expected to see.

[Lil' ½ Dead]

This is the first review with 6 and 4 core bulldozer

This article is nothing more then a performance overview of all four processors released yesterday. So this article is basically a big performance chart, for the architecture specifications and conclusions we urge you to read our AMD FX 8150 review. This article is a performance overview.

The processors added into the chart are the eight core AMD FX 8120, the six-core AMD FX 6100 and the four core AMD FX 4100.

Full article; http://www.guru3d.com/article/amd-fx...rmance-review/

[tswantek]

Thank you for contacting ASUS Customer Service.

My name is Andrew and it's my pleasure to help you with your problem.

I am afraid to say that your mortherboard can not support FX-4100 AMD CPU as it is AM3+ socket ,and you MB is AM3 socket.

Welcome to refer Troubleshooting & FAQ for ASUS products in ASUS website:
http://support.asus.com/servicehome.aspx?SLanguage=en

If you continue to experience issues in the future, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Best Regards,

Andrew

ASUS Customer Service

Now go to newegg and listen to the asus marketing tech say the 890fx are compat. WTF..............
Somebody needs to get there Shiz straightened out

[Lil' ½ Dead]

Still getting one but...

[Yamanu]

lol

[Lil' ½ Dead]

The FX 8120 and 8150 are essentially the same chip right.. just clocked higher, no hidden cache or anything on the 8150?

[aryan51]

The FX 8120 and 8150 are essentially the same chip right.. just clocked higher, no hidden cache or anything on the 8150?

very sad

[sawjai526]

thanks for review jim , you did great! Not so much for amd

[Drdeath]

FYI

[Doctor_Death]

Is that with your DICE setup?