i recently just bought a new gaming computer from ibuypower. it isnt supposed to come untill january, and as i was looking over the order sheet, i realized i bought an amd fx 8150 CPU 3.60 GHz. after looking online and doing some research, i found that ALOT of people are saying that the amd bulldozer is an epic fail. BUT i do have a high end graphics card. (amd radeon hd 6970) will i be able to run games at a good fps with this CPU/ GPU combination? please no intel or amd fanboy comments, im only looking for facts, not opinions. thanks in advance.
Honestly, the Bulldozer isn't THAT bad. People are saying its a flop in comparison to what Intel has been making and they expected that AMD would come up with something great. It didn't meet everyone's expectation so everyone's been calling it a fail but its still a decent processor. Coupled with the graphics card you have you'll have no trouble running almost all the newest games at the highest settings at a pretty decent resolution. You might be able to pump in some anti aliasing as well and the textures should be good if your 6970 has decent GRAM. I have an older AMD 560 x4 @3.3Ghz processor and a GTX 460 with 768mb RAM and I can run games like Skyrim at 1920x1080 at maxed settings and Starcraft 2 on Ultra/Extreme settings. Your computer should run games just fine.
Sadly, yes. The bulldozer series was a pretty big flop. However, they overclock VERY well(overclocked mine a whole 1 Ghz with multipliers alone, and it runs very cooly), so that should definitely help with performance. You do have a pretty good GPU, so that should definitely make up the difference. The only reason people say that they are terrible though is because of the price to value ratio. The fx-4100, which is what I have, performs really well, especially for its price. It's just not the best on the market. PLus, if you look at the benchmarks, it falls behind intel by just a bit, but its low price makes up for it. So overall, you could have gotten a better CPU for the price, but since it has an AM3+ socket, you probably got a motherboard that supports that, and that type of socket is more future proof.
