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Eric LaFrance
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Post subject: AM3+ discussion  Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2011 12:07 am |
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Who here plans on getting the Bulldozer or just the AM3+ mainboard?
For those that do not know, the AM2+ and AM3 CPU all work with the AM3+ motherboards. I intend to get the AM3+ motherboard and upgrade the CPU at a later date. Though if the Bulldoze CPUs aren't as fast as the core i7 at the very least I might end up jumping ships.
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pieter
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Post subject: Re: AM3+ discussion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 6:53 am |
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Well if there is nothing funny with the Bulldozer ill still buy one and an AM3+ mainboard. Performance wise im not to concerned, people who are expecting performance at the same level as Intel for a way lower price is something  . _________________ Opera best browser made by mankind! Linux 2.6.27.7-9-x86_64 SUSE LINUX 11.1KDE: 4.1.3
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Eric LaFrance
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Post subject: Re: AM3+ discussion Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2011 7:30 pm |
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Well it's not about the same performance for a lower price, it's about gaming performance being able to push high end video cards and having good FPU for geometry, AI and physics calculations while being fairly power friendly. The Bulldozer is said to be good power wise, at this time the Phenom uses a little too much power for it's gaming performance. I run my computer with a battery backup low power usage with high performance under load situations is a big deal. My HD5850 isn't the best power wise (voltage locked also) mind you nor my Phenom II 965 which I under volt while over clocking.
My other video card before was an HD5770 which ran at under stock voltage and over clocked. My ram well still in the DDR2 world, but they are high speed 2.1 volts run at the lowest voltage my board supports 1.8volts at under clocked settings (800Mhz range verses 1066Mhz) with tight timings.
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Post subject: Re: AM3+ discussion Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 7:41 am |
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Well there benchmarks that say you push data through the PCI-E port faster with faster cpu but that is well known that ghz is king more ghz on the cpu faster you push data to the videocard.
But in real life it hardly matters how much data unless you do something like crossfire or SLI . Then you might notice it but nothing in double digit percentage category.
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Eric LaFrance
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Post subject: Re: AM3+ discussion Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 3:03 pm |
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I am talking about pure CPU performance being able to get those higher frame rates. A number of games take advantage of the CPU performance. Just look at the core 2600 i7 compared to say a Phenom II 965 like I have. A number of games with that darned CPU alone runs 30frames per second faster or better using a $400 single video card.
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Post subject: Re: AM3+ discussion Posted: Sat Mar 19, 2011 6:11 am |
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Some game engines are CPU based more then GPU.
I'm not to worried about the gap, I'm just hoping that the bulldozer doesn't require special compiler optimizations and thus will function well with what is out there now...
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