AMD Bulldozer Speed Record Broken Again at 8.58GHz

[halcyon]

from the looks of AMD right now intel won't have to partner with anyone to put AMD out of business. it would suck to lose the ATI GPU's though

AMD will be okay. If they can't take Godzilla on head-on, they'll continue to nip at its heels. I think we'd all love to see AMD truly put forth performance-competitive desktop products but for whatever reason its just not meant to be right now. They have a loyal following and there is indeed a market for what they're offering. Right now Intel can't ignore AMD and that's a good thing. Let's hope AMD strives and is able to keep it that way.

 

[bri88]

I have a crazy thought, i would patent but who cares, id just love to see it. you can put any GPU in to you computer via PCIE 16, so to speek,and some newer Hard drives. Amd should team up with a motherboard company, or do it there self, and make CPU's like Vid Cards, any Cpu new/future could go in a slot like PCIE. Motherbord companies would benefit from it too (i have an old ..UGH.. Intell core 2 duo, wold love to upgrade, but new mobo, ram, etc cost alot) so if the mobo could support new cpus, upgrading wouldnt be too bad. Dunno just a thought.

 

[bri88]

On my last thought, heck a mobo that could support both AMD and Intell, that would be nice. Sick of Cpu's needing all new mobos every 6 or so months.

 

[halcyon]

[citation][nom]bri88[/nom]On my last thought, heck a mobo that could support both AMD and Intell, that would be nice. Sick of Cpu's needing all new mobos every 6 or so months.[/citation]
...and no more violence or wars while you're at it.

 

[clonazepam]

[citation][nom]bri88[/nom]On my last thought, heck a mobo that could support both AMD and Intell, that would be nice. Sick of Cpu's needing all new mobos every 6 or so months.[/citation]

I used to have a DFI board that supported Intel's slot 1 and socket 370 processors on the same size foot print. Anymore, there's way too many transistors, and even with that old board, you had to bend a lot of capacitors out of the way of any decent air cooler.

Obviously, there's boards out that support multiple cpus but not within the standard atx design.

The closest board to what you've suggested supported Apple's previous processor from 1999-2000 and a variation of the newer Intel chip they later introduced. It had both on the same board and was an Apple prototype as they began to develop OSX. I can't really say much more than that, however.

 

[captaincharisma]

Not likely. Earth's atmosphere is 78% nitrogen, which is an inert gas and not poisonous to humans. Unless you breathe pure nitrogen, thereby depriving yourself of oxygen, you would be fine.

looks like this kid hasn't grasped the concept of "humor" yet

 

[gm0n3y]

I would be impressed if this was achieved on all of the cores. Still difficult I'm sure, but it doesn't really count if you have to disable most of the chip to get it to run at that speed.

 

[clonazepam]

looks like this kid hasn't grasped the concept of "humor" yet

and... not trying to say "1000 Ways to Die" is an accurate source of information, but supposedly a dude died when the tube popped out of a "deep freeze" casket. Furthermore, because we already breathe in so much nitrogen, we wouldn't notice the lack of oxygen in the mix until it was too late... Spike TV science, I know... but consider that humorous as well and we're gtg 😀

 

[brett1042002]

Overclocked turd is still a turd...

 

[eddieroolz]

I've read somewhere that in an attempt at clock speed record 2v was applied to Bulldozer which killed it. So with 2.076v the FX-8150 probably has few minutes of lifetime.

 

[garrick]

[citation][nom]alphadark[/nom]Looking at benchsmarks on how this processor performs at around 5 gigherz a core is pretty remarkable; However these processors are so badly manufactured that they can't do this efficiently. If AMD figures out how to manufacture this architecture correctly they might still have a chance. I will not be holding my breathe.[/citation]
Most likely it's global foundaries having trouble creating the chips.

 

[Guest]

That's like saying the Hyper X program's X-43 achieving nearly mach 10 speeds is meaningless. Sure, to the practical consumer, it doesn't amount to shit. To the min/maxers, and the people who push technology forward, that means a while hell of a lot.

 

[Guest]

Could it be that all the intel lovers(I like Intel too) are pissed that this chip runs as good or close to some of the other highend intel chips at 1/4 the cost. was going to build a intel machine but i just got an FX-8150 for $245 new, no way intel can compeat with that. 😛

 

[we1shcake]

Could it be that all the intel lovers(I like Intel too) are pissed that this chip runs as good or close to some of the other highend intel chips at 1/4 the cost. was going to build a intel machine but i just got an FX-8150 for $245 new, no way intel can compeat with that. 😛

um a 2500k costs less, and is better in single threaded and only slightly behind in multithreaded

 

[de5_Roy]

Could it be that all the intel lovers(I like Intel too) are pissed that this chip runs as good or close to some of the other highend intel chips at 1/4 the cost. was going to build a intel machine but i just got an FX-8150 for $245 new, no way intel can compeat with that. 😛

i guess the last emote means that your whole comment is a joke.
fx 8150 costs more than its intel counterpart - core i5 2500k (and core i5 2400) and underperforms in more than enough situations to be unworthy of recommendation or purchase. it doesn't even come close to beating an i7 2600k let alone i7 2700k or the newest 3960x even though the last two i7s cost much higher.
if you have bought fx thinking that it will give you better all round performance than intel at its price, you sadly thought wrong. not that there's anything wrong with you buying an fx, you buy what you want to buy.

 

[robthatguyx]

sure heres all this power but what are gonna do with it when there isnt ONE game that uses for than 6 cores

 

[elric42]

From all that i read everyone in the world just play games on there computer because thats all i see here it not a gaming cpu well who cares i dont buy cpu's for gaming i do work on mine lots of work all at the same time and i get it dont faster using my amd bulldozer then i do using my i72600 so no fanboy here just the facts i can do alot more at one time with bulldozer then intel because bulldozer does not slow down each time i open up and do another task it just keeps on working while my i7 chokes trying to keep up so if games is all u play sure i72600 rocks but if u do work on your computer and want to get more done then bulldozer all the way sorry if it hurt u gamer fellings.