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Tiger Direct has the AMD FD8150FRGUBOX FX AM3+ FX-8150 8-Core 3.6GHz Desktop Processor for $250 - $15 off with coupon code MES58630 [Exp 4/16] = $235 with free shipping. Features 8MB L2 cache and a 8MB L3 cache, and supports Hyper-Transport 3, Cool'n'Quiet 3.0, and supports simultaneous 32 & 64-bit computing.
$235
Really that $15 Newegg gift card compelled TigerD answer competitively not wanting to lose out?
This should be $220 regularly... and then use such $15 carrots; that would make it about right in the market.
Can be a good CPU if the price was right, come on AMD!
Does this mean that PD is near?
Can't be a good CPU because the architecture is flawed! Regardless of price. Read some tech journals.
explain some of the tech journals! Just the take away. Because what I'm seeing is eight cores instead of eight threads, 16 MB of cache, including eight L2 instead of 12 L3, and about a gigahertz more clock speed. Clock speed still counts for something, yes?
Yea like this recent article?
http://www.anandtech.com/show/5714/990fx-motherboard-roundup-with-thuban-and-bulldozer-a-second-wind-for-asus-gigabyte-msi-and-biostar
Sure there's places where it's lower than the 1100T, but at others its' ahead. In most cases hardly dramatic while in real world use not earth shattering. Were folk disapointed sure, but would you advocate for a world with one CPU supplier? Considering for the longest time the 1100T was a $265 part after the release, while today you can't argue for the T1100 its' deactivated... so it is what it is.
I'm not saying it was great and it may well be fickle, it's more a step to the right and slightly back of the fully matured Phenom that's accepted. Although FX initiated a new architecture being more forward looking to scheduling within multitask operations. As said, with the right price and the right operations, there places it shines.
My take on PileDriver... 20% in the actual multi-task likely, but still hinges on Win8 scheduling optimizations. With other tasks tey should find general architectural progress, gains an efficiency (which was its' real flaw) and with that the ability to clock it higher as AMD always talk about. Could such a boost have it best Intel’s Ivy Bridge, doubt it but still more processing power than most ever hit upon, while at what should be a lower price point. And why the Bulldozer is disappointing today... priced to high.
http://www.nordichardware.com/news/69-cpu-chipset/45681-piledriver-up-to-20-percent-faster-than-bulldozer.html