blazorthon
Glorious
[citation][nom]aftcomet[/nom]No surprise there. If they didn't have ATI the blow would be even larger. They need to make some serious changes or they're destined for failure. APUs are probably the future so they might be ready for that but their entire market is pretty slim. What are they a leader in? Mobile? No. Desktop? No. GPUs? No. APUs? Maybe.They should focus on ultimate value and price cut as much as possible. They need to get their products moving and fast. I don't see how anyone considers AMD "value" when a 4100 costs $140 and is absolutely outclassed by a $120 i3.[/citation]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103996
FX-4100- $109.99 and it has free shipping.
[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]because u have lost price/performance on ur CPU. Bulldozer are barely manage to keep up with slowest i5 quad core, yet they are selling close to i7 price. FAIL.[/citation]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103960
The eight core FXs are right with the i7s in highly threaded performance and the FX-8150, the most expensive Bulldozer-based FX CPU right now, costs a mere $199.99 with free shipping... The cheapest LGA 1155 i7, the i7-2600K, costs $289.99:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
Furthermore, if you disable one core per module in the FX-8120 or the FX-8150, their performance per Hz goes up significantly with an approximately 25% increase due to the modules not needing to share resources between both cores within each module and this cuts down power consumption by between 30% and 40%, leaving much more overclocking headroom in addition to the performance per Hz boost. The eight and six core FXs can compete with the non K edition i5s and i7s in gaming performance even if you give those non K edition i5s and i7s a 25% overclock which is about the maximum that a non K edition i5 or i7 can get on the LGA 1155 socket motherboards.
Considering that the FX-8120 has an unlocked multiplier and that both the 8120 and the 8150 have identical binning, there's no need to even buy the 8150 and since the 8120 is $40 cheaper, well, that puts it at almost half of the price of the cheapest i7 without sacrificing anything compared to the FX-8150. Depending on the workload, either the one core per module profile or the full module profile can let them keep up with most of Intel's CPUs that are also more expensive in performance, granted not in power efficiency.
Also, their stock cooler is good enough to handle the heat even at over 4GHz full module and 5GHz one core per module, so an after-market cooler isn't even a necessary expense in this situation, granted I'd probably buy one anyway if I did do this with an FX.
I won't buy them because it would be damn inconvenient to need to switch between profiles or figure out another trick for this, but it can be done and if you don't need the other profile for anything that you do, then switching wouldn't be a problem for you anyway.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103996
FX-4100- $109.99 and it has free shipping.
[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]because u have lost price/performance on ur CPU. Bulldozer are barely manage to keep up with slowest i5 quad core, yet they are selling close to i7 price. FAIL.[/citation]
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103960
The eight core FXs are right with the i7s in highly threaded performance and the FX-8150, the most expensive Bulldozer-based FX CPU right now, costs a mere $199.99 with free shipping... The cheapest LGA 1155 i7, the i7-2600K, costs $289.99:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115070
Furthermore, if you disable one core per module in the FX-8120 or the FX-8150, their performance per Hz goes up significantly with an approximately 25% increase due to the modules not needing to share resources between both cores within each module and this cuts down power consumption by between 30% and 40%, leaving much more overclocking headroom in addition to the performance per Hz boost. The eight and six core FXs can compete with the non K edition i5s and i7s in gaming performance even if you give those non K edition i5s and i7s a 25% overclock which is about the maximum that a non K edition i5 or i7 can get on the LGA 1155 socket motherboards.
Considering that the FX-8120 has an unlocked multiplier and that both the 8120 and the 8150 have identical binning, there's no need to even buy the 8150 and since the 8120 is $40 cheaper, well, that puts it at almost half of the price of the cheapest i7 without sacrificing anything compared to the FX-8150. Depending on the workload, either the one core per module profile or the full module profile can let them keep up with most of Intel's CPUs that are also more expensive in performance, granted not in power efficiency.
Also, their stock cooler is good enough to handle the heat even at over 4GHz full module and 5GHz one core per module, so an after-market cooler isn't even a necessary expense in this situation, granted I'd probably buy one anyway if I did do this with an FX.
I won't buy them because it would be damn inconvenient to need to switch between profiles or figure out another trick for this, but it can be done and if you don't need the other profile for anything that you do, then switching wouldn't be a problem for you anyway.