Dear AMD, What where you thinking!!!!

[TheGreatSatan]

At least it's not measured in nibbles

[Aldersan]

That would be ridiculous...ly awesome ! "Dude I just got a new hard drive, it can read at 1500000 nibbles per second!"

[dr.walrus]

Bytes, bits.

Why do they have to share the same letter??????????

Because the words start with the same letter

[TheGreatSatan]

One is B, the other is b. What's the problem?

[AmEv]

When people type in ALL CAPS or simply don't capitalize......

Other than that, not much......

[DeviceUnknown]

I really hope people give Bulldozer a shot. Think about the 1100T. it compared no where near as well as the i5, but was considerable less expensive. Now we have the FX-8150 (soon 8170) that competes with the i5, and close to i7 at the same price as the i5. However it is actually cheap but due to supply and demand and introduction of a new product the prices were raised, usually by vendors. Give it another 30 days, it will be around the $199 mark and make the BEST performance per dollar processor on the market. Not to mention the rest of the platform is cheaper and provides a better platform (2x x16 and 1x x8 PCIe anyone, native 4x usb 3.o)?

[TheGreatSatan]

There's supposed to be an 8150P as well. 4.2GHz out of the box

[Konrad]

My understanding is that AMD is currently slightly behind the leapfrog race with Intel in terms of how small they can scale the circuit lithography. All other things considered equal, the smaller scale higher density components will be more power efficient. Though of course all things aren't equal; AMD has different emphasis on multi-cores, and shifts more of the load from the Northbridge/MCH chip onto the processor chip ... plus you can get 3 of 'em for the same price as an equivalent i7, maybe even 4 or 5 if you factor in the mobo costs as well.

[x88x]

I'll stick with my 1090T for the moment, but I'm optimistic for the future. As Konrad pointed out, AMD is going in a very different direction than Intel, especially with this new complete chip redesign. IMO, this is just another step along the road that they have been looking down for a long time now; further cementing their grip on the large server market, where multi-threaded applications are the norm instead of the exception.

Regarding die size, with the introduction of the Bobcat and now Bulldozer chips, AMD has joined Intel on the 32nm stage. That being said, I think Intel is planning on dropping down to 24nm with Ivy Bridge, so...yeah...having an operating income 20x larger than your only competitor does have its perks..

[Twigsoffury]

Oh magic computer santa clause


Won't you convince a mainboard vendor to introduce a dual socket AM3+ motherboard?

( yea i know its LGA775 :| )