The 990FX Chipset Arrives: AMD And SLI Rise Again

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i am so CONFUSED at why people are mad he stated that the gpus are the bottleneck... THATS WHERE U WANT THE BOTTLENECK. at high resolutions, gpus are doing most of the work, so if your cpu was the bottleneck, you got a biggg problem.
 
[citation][nom]mayankleoboy1[/nom]disappointing that AMD hasnt yet gotten its head straight.they should have already released the bulldozer last month.[/citation]

Really? I heard it was happening next month (June).
 
Come on, not another 200$ board!!! These are the reason why people have moved to sub-pair performing laptops or even consoles... More than 100$ for a board is insane!
 
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Thermal design power (TDP) 125W
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Since these are the same silicon then the 890FX just needs a driver update to support SLi?

Even if they say its the same silicon I'd like to see if there's an improvement from 890FX to 990FX in the form of benchmarks. How many times has Tom's uncovered tech companies don't always tell the full truth? What if there's a performance decrease? Maybe even toss in the 790FX for fun. As it is, this review doesn't show much of anything except that a newer CPU platform works better than an older platform.
 
So you tested a new motherboard chipset (which is essentially the same chipset as the old chipset?) to a z68 sandy bridge.

Did you ever think, perhaps we should test the 890FX and 990FX? Maybe throw in the 790FX? Perhaps even throw in different manufacturers? Because you can throw all of these benchmarks away unless a test such as the one i've described is done. Here you're comparing an old CPU on a new chipset/socket with no comparison to a sandy bridge on a totally different platform and failed to see how it compares to the older am3 800 series.

I guess my point is... What the hell was the point?
 
[citation][nom]pelov[/nom]So you tested a new motherboard chipset (which is essentially the same chipset as the old chipset?) to a z68 sandy bridge. Did you ever think, perhaps we should test the 890FX and 990FX? Maybe throw in the 790FX? Perhaps even throw in different manufacturers? Because you can throw all of these benchmarks away unless a test such as the one i've described is done. Here you're comparing an old CPU on a new chipset/socket with no comparison to a sandy bridge on a totally different platform and failed to see how it compares to the older am3 800 series. I guess my point is... What the hell was the point?[/citation]

I second that
 
AMD fanbois are starting to see the light at the end of sandy bridge... former AMD fan here tired of waiting for AMD to do something...
 
[citation][nom]pelov[/nom]So you tested a new motherboard chipset (which is essentially the same chipset as the old chipset?) to a z68 sandy bridge. Did you ever think, perhaps we should test the 890FX and 990FX? Maybe throw in the 790FX? Perhaps even throw in different manufacturers? Because you can throw all of these benchmarks away unless a test such as the one i've described is done. Here you're comparing an old CPU on a new chipset/socket with no comparison to a sandy bridge on a totally different platform and failed to see how it compares to the older am3 800 series. I guess my point is... What the hell was the point?[/citation]

Sooooo, test the 890FX against the 990FX? Out of curiosity, did you see the passage where AMD told me point-blank that 990FX is the same exact silicon as 890FX?

Much more interesting, in my opinion, is the fact that motherboard vendors are now licensing SLI for 990FX. If I already know I want a pair of 560 Tis or 570s, the real question is: should I put them on an AMD platform (x16/x16 links) or Intel (x8/x8)? The answer seems pretty clear: Intel until AMD launches Zambezi, and you can be sure I'll be revisiting the question once that happens!

Thanks for the feedback,
Chris
 
[citation][nom]reynod[/nom]Thanks Chris ... been waiting for something new from AMD for a while.Keep us posted when you get the B1 silicon to test ... sneak something out onto the forums for us sharks please??[/citation]

Sure thing Rey--had a couple of B0s offered to me already, but I didn't think it'd be doing AMD any favors to show a non-production chip underperforming the competition.
 
I just got a 'woody' in my pants..!
Let me calm down and take a breath, count to ten.
didn't work, count to 20..
OK, I read the article again and I still have this 'woody'..
OMG, this is what I've been waiting on Bulldozer or not.
 
I'm actually very pleased with this. I've been holding off buying new parts because I wanted to see how the industry would settle down and now I feel confident that I can go 990FX. I'll explain.

Currently my build is,
AMD Phenom II X4 940BE @3.5
Asus board based on NVidia 750a (can't remember board name)
DDR2-800 @ 8GB
NVidia GTX285 x 2 SLI
Highpoint RocketRaid HBA
4x 360GB SATA2 7200RPM disks in RAID 0

The CPU and the GPUs are both water cooled, the GPU's have special whole card blocks that reduce them to single slot GPUs, these blocks are $130+.

My upgrade plan was,
AMD CPU (either Phenom II x4 980BE or newer Bulldozer)
AMD Board (Nvidia's newest chipset isn't going to cut it)
16GB DDR3
Keep current GPU's
OCZ Revodrive X2 240GB

I'm happy to know their keeping the same socket which would entail my CPU waterblock being compatible with it. Also with SLI being available on a newer AMD platform the single biggest thing holding me back from upgrading is removed. Honestly don't really care how bulldozer performs, hopefully it has a nice overclock-able unlocked quad core, either way I'll go whats best for my money.
 
[citation][nom]Yuka[/nom]Thanks for the review, but at lower resolutions we all know that the CPU differences will become clear. So you just proved that if a game is taxing on the GPUs, both solutions are equal and when the graphics card ain't being taxed, CPU differences become apparent... Ok, thanks for proving what we already know once more (not being sarcastic here >_[/citation]
they just reviewed the board and gave you an sli comparison with another platform to make sure the SLI part is up to par, which it seems to be when not bottlenecked by the cpu. What more do you expect?
 
[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]But! Does ANYONE play Metro 2033?Fixed[/citation]

lol. i do play the game. maybe not many people out there play the game but still there is people out there play the game 😀
 
Actually, I am pleased with what I see here. AMD has not done SLI in quite some time and we're talking about immature motherboards with immature drivers. I imagine it may take up to a year before SLI on AMD platforms to have mature drivers optimized. Plus its not really in nVidia's best interest to ensure SLI is optimized on AMD platforms. Besides, Intel sells more so another reason not to fucos on SLI on AMD systems.

I will definitely be waiting to get a proper Zambezi CPU and a more mature platform in the fall.
 
[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom]Sure thing Rey--had a couple of B0s offered to me already, but I didn't think it'd be doing AMD any favors to show a non-production chip underperforming the competition.[/citation]

That's a very enlightened approach. Obviously Sandy Bridge is a much more mature platform- one that had plenty of problems of its own when first introduced.
 
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