I mean I know that AMD led everyone on to believing that it was going to kick intel's ***, but is the CPU that bad?? the reason im worried about it is because I just ordered a gaming computer from ibuypower, and the order has already been processed, so theres no time to change to an intel core i7. i have an AMD radeon hd 6970, so if this CPU actually does suck, will that GPU help?
bulldozer okorder fx-8150 vs sandy bridge (not good to put a spreadsheet on video - put it on a web page!), i5-2500k and fx-8150 perform on a par, and sometimes the i5-2500k surpasses the amd proc. a lot of gamers on yahoo answers previously preferred the i7-2600k for gaming. since that time, the i7-2700k, the i7-2800k, and the i7-3000 series have come out (if you are so inclined). take a look at benchmarks...
It's really that the 2500k performs the same for less money.
Its not really bad but like you say it just didn't live up to everyone expectations. Its closest bench mark competitor is the i7-2600 or a bit higher than the 2500K and certainly wil not stymie the 6970 GPU! Hopefully your mother board has a 990FX chip set to take full advantage of that 8 core.
Actually I wish you luck with your FX 8150 rig. I would be kind of excited to get that set-up, especially with an awesome card like the 6970. You may have a blast OC'ing that baby. You know what, it's really not that Bulldozer sucks per se, it's just that the bar was set so high with the Sandy Bridges that all the AMD fan-boys (and I used to be one) were hoping Bulldozer would level the playing field a little (or at least narrow Intel's lead). Since that obviously didn't happen, and Intel has now widened the gap even further with their Sandy Bridge E chips, people just love to hate on AMD for not stepping up and making a CPU which was at least equal to Intels best (especially considering how long those Bulldozer CPUs were in development). There is absolutely nothing wrong with your set-up and the Zambezi processors though, they just pale when set side by side to a Intel Sandy Bridge 2500k or 2600k/2700k. But why worry about what Intel is doing. Enjoy your set-up. You'll do just fine.
many games today are graphically demanding rather than cpu demanding. But the FX is an 8 core so it would not suck that much, but IT'S NOT SOLELY FOR GAMING. It was rumored to be a server chip originally. ------------------ Bulldozer CPU's will handle heavily threaded apps easily
