AMD Bulldozer is here, oops!

[mazex]

Originally Posted by Katana1000S

My first foray into flight sim was actually an Amiga 500 with half a meg of ram, it came with a basic Flight sim called Bob Dimmermans (I think) FA-18 Interceptor ... wow, all of a sudden I was defending the US and making carrier landings and shooting down Migs, I only wanted the Amiga to sort of do a data base for all my CD's an vinyl records.

This was unheard of.

After that I bought a PC from a guy in Aberdeen, Intel 33MHz with 2 MB (yes 2MB of ram) and a hard drive so small it would not hold a modern days OS swap file, but that got me into Falcon 3.0, Fleet Defender and lots of others.

Have been building my own ever since.

He he, we are getting old Started on the Spectrum myself with "Fighter Pilot". I have actually saved a little list of all my computers to not forget them. Home built since the P75

Year CPU Memory GPU
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1982 ZX Spectrum 48kb ???
1985 286-12 512kb ???
1989 386Dx-33 1Mb 1Mb SVGA
1992 486Dx-50 2Mb Trio64 LB
1994 Pentium 75 4Mb Matrox Millenium I
1995 Pentium 120 8Mb Matrox Millenium I
1996 Pentium 166MMX 16Mb Matrox Millenium I / 3dfx Voodoo
1999 Pentium 2 400Mhz 64Mb ATI Rage Pro / 2x Voodoo 2
2001 AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 512Mb Geforce 3
2003 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1,6 Ghz 1Gb Radeon 9800 Pro
2004 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2,166 Ghz 2Gb ATI X800 Pro
2006 Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 Ghz 4Gb Geforce 8800 GTX
2008 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.33 Ghz 6Gb Geforce 275GTX
2011 Intel Core i7 2600k 3,4 Ghz 8Gb Geforce 580GTX

Some day I will get back to AMD I hope - but not on the first gen Bulldozer at least

[Katana1000S]

Originally Posted by mazex

He he, we are getting old Started on the Spectrum myself with "Fighter Pilot". I have actually saved a little list of all my computers to not forget them. Home built since the P75

Year CPU Memory GPU
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1982 Spectrum 48kb ???
1985 286-12 512kb ???
1989 386Dx-33 1Mb 1Mb SVGA
1992 486Dx-50 2Mb Trio64 LB
1994 Pentium 75 4Mb Matrox Millenium I
1995 Pentium 120 8Mb Matrox Millenium I
1996 Pentium 166MMX 16Mb Matrox Millenium I / 3dfx Voodoo
1999 Pentium 2 400Mhz 64Mb ATI Rage Pro / 2x Voodoo 2
2001 AMD Athlon Thunderbird 1.33Ghz 512Mb Geforce 3
2003 AMD Athlon XP 2000+ 1,6 Ghz 1Gb Radeon 9800 Pro
2004 AMD Athlon XP 3000+ 2,166 Ghz 2Gb ATI X800 Pro
2006 Intel Core 2 Duo E6700 2.66 Ghz 4Gb Geforce 8800 GTX
2008 Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 3.33 Ghz 6Gb Geforce 275GTX
2011 Intel Core i7 2600k 3,4 Ghz 8Gb Geforce 580GTX

Some day I will get back to AMD I hope - but not on the first gen Bulldozer at least

I recognise a lot of those CPU's in my history, I've actually got a retro P200 build era built up and working (I had slower, dont worry ) with just DOS 6/5 working on it ... I could have retro went a PC with a DX2 66 CPU, but looking back I've got best chance of this retro idea working with a P200, its got 32 MB of ram that was absolutely massive at the time and last time I fired it up it worked.

I'll dig it out again and if their is any interest I'll do a thread about old retro PC flight sim.

I hang on to almost all my old gear, hear is a pic of my current HOTAS collection ... I've given away my Saitek X-52 pro, but in the background you will see my old Thrustmaster F22 pro and TQS for DOS purposes I hope to get working again one day

[NedLynch]

Pretty disappointing from AMD.
On the other hand it's never been good to go out and buy anything right after release.

For my part I have to say if the next itteration from AMD (let's also see what happens with the new FM2 socket) is not significantly better I will most certainly go to Sandybridge/Ivybridge, depending on availability and pricing when I need a new mobo+cpu.

I have been looking forward to the Bulldozer but I won't put any money up for it or a new 990fx mobo, as of now it's not worth the price of admission and sadly, since I always valued AMD's approach to socket/cpu flexibility, an i5 2500k is starting to look really good.

Btw, my first pc after my amiga was a 486 with a whopping 4mb of ram....ahhhh pacific fighters.....

[Codex]

My first computer ...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_IIc

[BaronBonBaron]

I just read the tomshardware.com review of the AMD FX-8150.
It's pretty disappointing considering it was supposed to beat Sandy Bridge

Now Intel can charge whatever $$$ they want for SB because AMD has no high end chips for competition.