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[AOS-]

I said I would never buy a premo avatar for my main PSN account....

couldn't resist and gave in. Now I will only use the $20 exclusively for avatars. See how long I can hold up the balance

 

[Mr. S]

Followed by many many FIFA Ultimate Team packs. Still have enough money for the GT5 Complete Pack, mind you

Have to get one of these for the GT5 DLC as well. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[David]

6pack

6pack

 

[eSZee]

For once, I'm going to defend him. There isn't any software out there that is currently made for Bulldozer. Thus, it's going to look like it sucks. However when companies can make software that'll properly use it. It'll shine brighter than any of the SB processors.

You have to remember that it JUST got released. Of course the first benchmarks are going to look weak.

I would defend AMD but they kind of messed up.
Go read some of the info that is coming out about their engineers and marketing not being honest with each other.
It finally makes sense why the CEO left some weeks ago. People were speculating that the product was having yield issues and performance wasn't there.

 

[Techy]

Arrived at my house yesterday, and immediately indulged on the game since then I'll also probably be getting the $20 PSN card for GT5's DLC soon.

 

[Mr.Grandorifto]

That's a steal! Nice buy![/QUOTE]

Yea Man Canadian Tier going back for more stuff.. 👍

 

[nick09]

There is barely any typical software than can take full advantage of 4 cores and 6 cores, 8 is stretching it. What software can use it is relatively specialized for a specific task more suited to professionals or the real hardcore enthusiast. It's not as if the software will magically appear in a year or two or even three. Sure, eventually BD will be able to flex its muscle, and by then there will be improvements to the processor architecture which make it even better. In the computer section he pointed out the system is mostly for medium gaming and HTPC, and BD is no where near a good bang for the buck for uses like that.

The total price was $675 with some shipping cost. I'm going to sell my old computer for $350 to cover for nearly half the costs. I'd say with the costs so far it was a good bang for the buck. I'm upgrading from a Core 2 Duo and I will see huge improvements even if the software is not adapted for 6 or 8 cores.

You should not forget that SB had problems with the chipset so it was not as stable in early revisions compared to the B3 revision. BD can't help that the software is not adapted for it yet. I bought BD so I could future proof myself and not worry about upgrades within the first 3 years of owning the computer.

 

[eSZee]

BD can't help that the software is not adapted for it yet. I bought BD so I could future proof myself and not worry about upgrades within the first 3 years of owning the computer.

You are misinformed.

 

[Joey D]

Nick, you are going to need more than a 600W PSU. My PC was stretching the PSU with only one 3" HDD, one 2.5" HDD, 5750 graphics card, DVD drive, Athlon X3 455, 4Gb RAM and a card reader. I think you're going to need a 650-700W PSU to make sure there are no issues...

A 500W power supply is enough, I have a 6950, 16GB of RAM, i5 2500K, two DVD drives, 5 HDD, and 1 SSD and I run all that without any issue at all. I am going to upgrade soon though but that's only because I want to Crossfire.

 

[ROAD_DOGG33J]

Nick, you are going to need more than a 600W PSU. My PC was stretching the PSU with only one 3" HDD, one 2.5" HDD, 5750 graphics card, DVD drive, Athlon X3 455, 4Gb RAM and a card reader. I think you're going to need a 650-700W PSU to make sure there are no issues...

Your power supply could be not putting out what it claims.

 

[livemusic]

Only it's dark blue with the white logo.

 

[salanos]

There is barely any typical software than can take full advantage of 4 cores and 6 cores, 8 is stretching it. What software can use it is relatively specialized for a specific task more suited to professionals or the real hardcore enthusiast. It's not as if the software will magically appear in a year or two or even three. Sure, eventually BD will be able to flex its muscle, and by then there will be improvements to the processor architecture which make it even better. In the computer section he pointed out the system is mostly for medium gaming and HTPC, and BD is no where near a good bang for the buck for uses like that.

I'm actually going to side with you but for a different reason. YES, there is a lot of software that doesn't make much use of the Zambezi multicore design, and Windows 7's scheduler isn't designed to allocate processes to its modules intelligently (AMD claims to be working with Microsoft to get this right in Windows 8).

BUT if you ask me, the real reason Bulldozer is a rather disappointing product is not because it can't "flex its muscle". The reason why people are so disappointed is its IPC (instructions per clock), or otherwise known and per-hertz performance. It is simply dominated by Sandy Bridge in this area, while containing nigh on twice as many transistors.
However, YES, a Bulldozer chip is possibly very future ready and may in in the future become extremely capable. Why? In my opinion, the reason the chip has much untapped potential is the FMA4 instruction set.
Assuming that perhaps the reason the chip has so many transistors but performs so badly is because the new transistor count was dedicated to executing its new instruction sets (FMA4, XOP), the chip could perform exceptionally with programs optimized for these instructions. In benchmarks known to make use of FMA4, the FX chip jumps forward.

The problem is that FX is rather inherently designed more as a server chip (in my opinion) and while it is an excellent design in that regard (scalability, per-core voltage gating, rather aggressively priced) due to the fact that most servers are coded manually, it is a rather underwhelming consumer chip and really isn't quite what anyone hoped it would be, after so many years.

 

[Blackbird.]

This:

and

 

[hemisport15]

I got one of these (4S)

and to keep it from shattering into a million pieces, it will soon be wrapped in this (Otterbox Commuter Series)

The only difference is that mine will be Gunmetal and Yellow instead of all black.

 

[Aldo]

Just bought train tickets down to London for my birthday to go to the Ministry of Sound! Less than a month now!

 

[Steele_obsidion]

This:

and

I have that watch! its amazing! yet im always in the dark so i have to let it sit in the window for a few days every few months to recharge

Just bought train tickets down to London for my birthday to go to the Ministry of Sound! Less than a month now!

Have fun! I love the MOS

 

[Syntax error]

Just put down my cash for a pre-order of this bad boy. Should look good in the collection:

 

[Mike Rotch]

This:

👍

Mudman?

 

[Robin]

👍

Mudman?

That's the DW-6900 military version.

I have the classic 6900 from the early 90's, literally takes anything you throw at it and is still going strong.

 

[NTX]

Finally, it as arrived. Time to go to the track 👍

 

[MarinaDiamandis]

More Injinji socks!

 

[Anghammarad]

For some reason that I can't quite explain these

said "Buy me". It's not even that I'm a boot kind of guy. Expensive as well at $375/€275.

Edit: Oh and I bought one of these last week

 

[Mr. S]

Lots of them.

 

[mcfizzle]

I recommend Spartacus Season 1 to anyone who hasn't seen it. R.I.P. Andy Whitfield.

 

[deadcell96]

Got it yesterday. I was excited to use it, then I found out dlc was delayed.

 

[F1GTR]

Winter shooting supplies:

Sekonic L308S Flashmate
10x Tri-X in 120
10x Tri-X in 35mm
Diafine developer
Kenro acetate storage sleeves

 

[Roo]

A friend of mine saw this in a charity shop recently and as he knew I was after it, he kindly bought it for me for £1.50:

I've been wallowing in nostalgia ever since.

 

[Dennisch]

A friend of mine saw this in a charity shop recently and as he knew I was after it, he kindly bought it for me for £1.50:

I've been wallowing in nostalgia ever since.

I had 1 and 2, I lend them both to different buddies, but they both lost them. 👎

They should bring it to HD specs.

 

[salanos]

+ sushi and sashimi donburi.

 

[astrosdude91]

My mouth and tongue will never forgive me. Haven't had Warheads in ages, so I bought a 175 piece bag from the grocery store.

The lemon and blue raspberry ones are the sourest!