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Those 2500k and 2600k chips are monsters, from what I've heard. Can reach 4.5 Ghz easily.
I'm finally upgrading - i5 2500k, 16GB RAM, ASROCK|Z68 EXTREME3 GEN3, and a COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus. Keeping my old vid card for a few months but the speed bump coming from a dual core E6850 (which I have had for about 4 years and have never had any issues with) at 3.0 GHz. I also just picked up a 24" Samsung LED monitor since my work 27" iMac was shaming the out of my old 22" widescreen LCD.
Those 2500k and 2600k chips are monsters, from what I've heard. Can reach 4.5 Ghz easily.
I'd been waiting for Bulldozer benchmarks, and they came out today. AMD got ted on, again.
Ehhhh, not completely. They're meant for long-threaded processes and in that respect they do very well (sometimes even besting) Intel's chips. Keep in mind AMD is usually a price bracket lower than Intel, so that could help them.
But yeah, gaming performance is incredibly disappointing. They're even slower in some instances than the X6.
I was just disappointed after them pushing the release back so much.
the bd is in the price range of the i5 2500k...its easy which one to pick...
lol amd faildozer. 8 cores of uselessness
i dont think its actually 8 cores
more like 4 cores with each core has 2 cores within...
Yeah. I think it's 4 cores, 8 with hyperthreading. The computers at work had hyperthreading disabled by default for some reason. Turned it on in the bios, now shows as 8.
you bought a bd?
No, not me personally.
Not quite:
Basic descriptionAccording to AMD, Bulldozer-based CPUs are be based on GlobalFoundries' 32 nm Silicon on insulator (SOI) process technology and utilize a new approach to mul hreaded computer performance that, according to press notes, "balances dedicated and shared computer resources to provide a highly compact, high core count design that is easily replicated on a chip for performance scaling."[4] In other words, by eliminating some of the redundancies that naturally creep into multicore designs, AMD hopes to take better advantage of its hardware capabilities, while using less power.
As of November 2009, Bulldozer-based implementations built on 32nm SOI with HKMG are scheduled to arrive in 2011 for both servers and desktops. The server segment includes the dual chip 16-core Opteron processor codenamed Interlagos (for Socket G34) and single chip 4–8 core Valencia (for Socket C32), while the 4–8 core Zambezi will target desktops on Socket AM3+.[5][6]
Bulldozer will be the first major redesign of AMD’s processor architecture since 2003, when the firm launched its Athlon 64/Opteron (K8) processors, and will feature two 128-bit FMA-capable FPUs which can be combined into one 256-bit FPU. This design is accompanied by two integer cores each with 4 pipelines (the fetch/decode stage is shared). Bulldozer will also introduce shared L2 cache in the new architecture. AMD calls this design a "Bulldozer module". A 16-core processor design would feature eight of these modules,[7] but the operating system will recognize each module as two physical cores.
The module, described as two cores, can be contrasted with a single Intel core with HyperThreading. The difference between the two approaches is that Bulldozer provides dedicated schedulers and integer units for each thread, whereas in Intel's core all threads must compete for available execution resources.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulldozer_(processor)
Got everything set up, encoding times drastically slashed, yay.
http://lifehacker.com/5851902/turn-a...ideo-card-dock
manny, have you purchased anything yet?? I keep seeing stuff, but I don't post it because I figured you would have made a purchase by now.
Didnt want to start another thread.
I finally upgraded my VGAs. Went from four gtx295s to a single gtx580.
What a HUGE difference. I was having problems with the 295s playing Witcher2, cards would constantly overheat and lock the system up, forcing a hard restart.
I didnt know what the problem was, so I d/led two programs; Core Temp (for CPU) and EVGA Precision (for GPU). My CPU is golden being liquid cooled but my GPUs were pushing well over 100 degrees C. System would crap out when one of the cores reached ~115.
Bought a 580, installed. Running the game on Ultra settings (no ubersampling, no SSAO, no Bloom), getting 60+ FPS and the new card doesnt get over 70 degrees C.
I left one of the 295s in to handle PhysX. Back in business in a big way with the added bonus of my system not sounding like an aircraft taking off during gameplay.
One thing I got out of this; EVGA Precision is the . Works with any and all cards, not just EVGA's. Software overclock, graph out individual settings per GOU for fan speeds all while displaying that info on my LCD keyboard. Badass program.
http://www.evga.com/precision/
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