AMD Bulldozer is here, oops!

[TonyD]

Originally Posted by baronWastelan

I'm still waiting for something worth upgrading to from my Q9650 @3600mhz, running on a almost-4-year-old Asus maximus extreme mobo. LOL

I bet it cost you a packet at the time, but in retrospect I’m sure you’ll agree that it was money well spent. I’m also sure you’ll be disappointed at the relative minor increase in gaming performance you’d get from a more modern quad-core setup. I ‘d suggest waiting for SandyBridge-e early next year, as it would most likely give you a similar experience. High-end gaming for over 4 years on a single platform is not easily achieved – or cheap either. It’s probably only Intel hexa-core users that are currently in a similar position.

[Rattlehead]

I don't think anyone has mentioned the power draw of Bulldozer in this thread. It's staggering how much power it needs compared to Sandy Bridge.

So, even if it were as quick as Intel's best offerings overall, it is still a power hungry chip with crappy per core performance.
I hate to say it, but this is so far, a disaster. The IPC is terrible and the power draw is terrible. Overall, just totally poor from AMD.
I expected so much more than this.

[swiss]

Originally Posted by Rattlehead

I don't think anyone has mentioned the power draw of Bulldozer in this thread. It's staggering how much power it needs compared to Sandy Bridge.

Doesn't really matter - we 're discussing its use in a high end gaming machine, the GPU will draw twice as much.
(Ok, some OC'd 8150 draw up to 193W)