19 September Launch Day for FX Series Processors

[YautjaLord]

Have to point out that i made mistake: Sabertooth 990FX (the mobo i'll buy once got enough cash) cost was ~1200 when it 1st hit the PC store shelves - which was when 2 months ago? think so - & now it lowered to 1095 sheckels; it wasn't ~1500 my bad. Crosshair V Formula was (and is, though 50 sheckels less now). Hope it'll (Sabertooth 990FX) get it's price few sheckels lower when Dozers come out (FX-8xxx/6xxx/etc.....); doubt though that it'll be really low, probably 5 or 10 sheckels less; equals 2 or 3 less in USD. 1095 divide by 3.5 equals ~315 USD; that's the current price for it but it also includes all Israeli taxes that's why it's somehow high if you ask.

 

[Wile E]

Who fucking cares, its performance per $$$ that matters and it always has but in the few rare applications where all out performance matters.

I do. I only care about all out performance. Yes, seriously.

 

[Voltaj .45 ACP]

"Der aaye par durust aaye" (Hindi proverb for "arrive late, but arrive strong")

"Gec olsun da guc olmasin" (Turkish proverb for "arrive late but not receiving hard" or "ati alan uskudari gecmis olmasin") at=horse.yeah it's a joke sheldon.gif

 

[Lazzer408]

8 cores at 3.9 GHz is pretty impressive. I doubt it will give SandyBridge-EX a challenge but it will likely be able to give a Bloomfield chip a run for its money.

I'd rather have one core at 31.2ghz.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

I'd rather have one core at 31.2ghz.

in the days, of ever increasing multicore computing, and paralellism, it seems pretty backwards thinking, to want something like that.

 

[YautjaLord]

How about 8-cores running for example @ 10GHz each, Wafer?

Jokes aside, maybe it should/would happen someday. Is that forward thinking enough?

 

[Velvet Wafer]

How about 8-cores running for example @ 10GHz each, Wafer?

Jokes aside, maybe it should/would happen someday. Is that forward thinking enough?

IBM and the GIT already clocked one of IBMs chips at 500GHz... no one knows tho, how efficient that 500GHz were tho

With current and future technology, and even with evershrinking process sizes
(for not even 10 years, as somewhere after 10nm, they will run into MASSIVE problems with the tunneling effect, or as it more commonly known, electron leakage)
i doubt we will see an efficient 10 ghz 8 core processor, ever.
As said, they plan on paralell, as high as i think about 40 cores per chip, as thats much easier than keeping that high clocks stable

 

[YautjaLord]

Guess it's true, though the thought of multicore CPU with 10GHz for each core is awesome. 40 cores? Make it 100 by the 1st half of this century & then i'll go to space happily for all i care. jk

 

[Voltaj .45 ACP]

Guess it's true, though the thought of multicore CPU with 10GHz for each core is awesome. 40 cores? Make it 100 by the 1st half of this century & then i'll go to space happily for all i care. jk

you mean toilet right?howard we share that bathroom what are you doing?i hope pamela anderson or someting like hot.

 

[ensabrenoir]

Oooo k that one hurt my brain

 

[Velvet Wafer]

this thread is severely deranging, in every possible way.
(like it has been for several BD threads i have seen in the last few months:shadedshu)...
i hope some mod thinks likewise, and does a cleanup operation... the soon the better.

 

[ensabrenoir]

True. Like most others. I am searching for something solid but With so much based on rumor. speculation & missinformation in the End its all near nonsense...... though some posts do lack any signs of above hamster intellegence though. Only amd know & they've been doing quite a job keeping everyone guessing

 

[Frick]

Postcount +1.

 

[jpierce55]

this thread is severely deranging, in every possible way.
(like it has been for several BD threads i have seen in the last few months:shadedshu)...
i hope some mod thinks likewise, and does a cleanup operation... the soon the better.

I don't understand why these threads for BD have even been permitted to go on. They all have flown way off the main idea. People speculation on the speculations of other people theoretical speculations.

I fully agree with you a mod needs to lock this or something!

 

[ensabrenoir]

And rising. But still not as bad as the 1155/1156 upgrade thread

 

[YautjaLord]

I'm off this thread, for month or 2, or til Dozer actually comes out (which is a month or ~2 ). And yes, i agree with the rest that this thread is severely degrading once everyone starts blasting it with OT (including myself), so the only "medicine" needed is another bta or W1z news cover bout FX-8150/8100 for example: how they actually perform vs latest SB/SB-E/IB/etc... in - say - Crysis 2 & other DX10/11 benchmarks + how they use all features of AM3+ for real & not on paper. Web design is waiting, so see you all in next FX-8150/8100/etc... news cover.

 

[fullinfusion]

this thread is severely deranging, in every possible way.
(like it has been for several BD threads i have seen in the last few months:shadedshu)...
i hope some mod thinks likewise, and does a cleanup operation... the soon the better.

+1 on that Velvet, these BD threads are indeed BS and Id also like a clean up.

 

[ninjagordy]

IBM and the GIT already clocked one of IBMs chips at 500GHz... no one knows tho, how efficient that 500GHz were tho

With current and future technology, and even with evershrinking process sizes
(for not even 10 years, as somewhere after 10nm, they will run into MASSIVE problems with the tunneling effect, or as it more commonly known, electron leakage)
i doubt we will see an efficient 10 ghz 8 core processor, ever.
As said, they plan on paralell, as high as i think about 40 cores per chip, as thats much easier than keeping that high clocks stable

I Remember talking to a tech that told me cpu's would never break 1ghz mark because the coolers would need to be the same size as a sofa......

hopefully dude...that quote will not make you feel stupid in 11 years time

 

[twilyth]

I don't think anyone doubts that 10nm can be done. The issue is doing it with the current silicon based technology. Even Intel acknowledges that you eventually run up against the laws of physics and you need a completely new method of creating cpu circuitry, whether it's graphene or something else.

 

[Velvet Wafer]

I Remember talking to a tech that told me cpu's would never break 1ghz mark because the coolers would need to be the same size as a sofa......

hopefully dude...that quote will not make you feel stupid in 11 years time

i dont think so... i would be more amazed, by the fact, that they finally did it... but as said... scaling in GHZ is not as efficient, as scaling in core amount, given that all applications are written in a way, that supports paralell more

 

[twilyth]

Kit Guru speculates that Intel is getting ready to drop prices on the k chips - presumably in response to leaks regarding the price of BD chips.

IDK. Seems weak on evidence but makes sense. Here is the article - http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/intel-lines-up-2500k2600k-price-cuts-to-welcome-fx/

 

[xenocide]

Kit Guru speculates that Intel is getting ready to drop prices on the k chips - presumably in response to leaks regarding the price of BD chips.

IDK. Seems weak on evidence but makes sense. Here is the article - http://www.kitguru.net/components/cpu/jules/intel-lines-up-2500k2600k-price-cuts-to-welcome-fx/

Intel would be smart to wait for some actual results from legitimate Bulldozer benchmarks before deciding what they should do...

 

[twilyth]

I would guess that they have their spies like any big company and probably know a lot more about BD than we do. That's just a guess of course but given the history between the 2 companies, if they don't already have production samples they're not doing their job.

 

[Hotobu]

I would guess that they have their spies like any big company and probably know a lot more about BD than we do. That's just a guess of course but given the history between the 2 companies, if they don't already have production samples they're not doing their job.

Yeah pretty much this. As someone who's had a little peak into upper echelon corporate ongoings there's very few secrets between companies of this magnitude. I've been anticipating an SB price drop for a while, and don't see why it wont happen. The chips haven't moved much in price at all for quite a some time. Because I favor Z68 mobos over AM3+ ones I still think I'm gonna go SB, but I called Microcenter today just to make sure that they've got a price match policy. I'm probably going to buy one from them on 8/20 or so just so I can get a match 30 days later if they drop it.

 

[twilyth]

I don't know if this actually says anything since I'm not going to do the math (who uses standard deviation and the speed of light to describe a launch date - back away from the bong sir - nice and slow). It sounds like it might possibly be interesting depending on how fried you are.

Semi-accurate

When is AMD (NYSE:AMD) going to finally ship Bulldozer/Interlagos? Our moles say soon, very soon. As we said at Computex, the server variants were pulled in to before the desktop versions, not delayed. Our sources say that the server variant of bulldozer will be shipping in less time than it takes light to travel 1802617757855.0835 furlongs, and the desktop version follows in mid-September, but NOT on the 19th. I guess that would be a little slip, but you can now count the days on two hands if your genetic makeup is a few standard deviations off of mainstream.S|A