This bothers me because we are well into 2012 and I haven't been able to find any similar class amd processors that aren't, well old. Is this because amd just hasn't came out with it yet or am I stupid enough not to be able to find it. I would really appreciate an Idea of when the new will be coming out or what i'm confused about.
The 8120 is not that dated yes they have had it go through it's paces on a vanilla type mainboard. It did not do that well at all in fact looks kind of like their last edition. But The Video encoding went way up. Along with alot of other things. It get hot like any other processor but they were quick in the frowns on the 8120 because of the stocks clocks the clocks on air. But they do not have a review of that thing on water( being water cooled). Alot of people are getting the processor and making it work better the fine. It can game and encode,conputation and do some things intel is not right now. It's affordable and why back track to a phenom when they have this one out.This is a real eight core processor 2 not a eight core with only 6 working cores because of mainboard or processor drivers and physical limitation's. It's worth it's money at this point in time. I will say that.
I think you are confused because you really want a 3rd gen Intel i7 chip which would run circles around any AMD chip but you keep looking for slow old hardware... Reconsider the AMD built and choose Intel instead... I used to be an AMD man myself years ago when their chips were the fastest, but this is no longer the case. And PS Intel chips with hyperthreading are seen as 2 cores per core by the OS... a quad core is therefore seen as 8 cores... check the stats dude AMD's best offering has been slower than middle range Intel chips for a while now.
I agree with some of the other posters in that you are making a mistake going with AMD instead of Intel... especially for gaming. But hey it's your money and if you want to be upgrading your new machine sooner rather than later then by all means go with the slow chip.
