Is it possible to use three 30" monitors using a HD 7750 on 2560x1600 ? What type of splitter works if I need to put two or three monitors on one displayport?
Idle power is good and that is most important,
With AMD you don't need to buy as many motherboards as with intel
I hope GF will improve the power consumption on higher clocks
Llano is thuban on 32nm
Bulldozer on Photoshop CS5
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/fx-8150-zambezi-bulldozer-990fx,3043-15.html
Photoshop CS4
Bulldozer runs well on newer applications that need a fast cpu
Todays programs don't need quads or more
Here is one game that shows the future
http://www.pcgames.de/Battlefield-3-PC-221396/News/Battlefield-3-Benchmarks-mit-AMDs-Bulldozer-im-Vergleich-zu-Phenom-2-X6-und-Intels-i7-veroeffentlicht-850268/
I was planing to get FX-8120
If all games stoped beeing developed today, no more power needed then my X3 @ 2.5 GHz would do just fine except for BF3
FX-8120 will run all games fine too. But lets say one or two years from now
edit: I also think we will se some price drops soon
I am interested in games that need cpu power, games that don't tax the cpu isn't important for obvious reasons ;)
Looking for a CPU that is future safe, not the one that is fast on older games
Is Bulldozer the best gamer cpu today?
Checking graphs for battlefield 3 on hardocp, the lowest fps values har higher than 2500K and 2600K. I don't care if a cpu can produce 10 000 FPS in sertain parts if it also have bottlenecks. What is important is that the lowest FPS har high.
Looking att...
It runs well, singlethreaded performance should be a bit slower but it seems to run better than expected. In threaded software it is going to show who is the boss
Games that don't use more cores will not be hard to run.
When more games will use multithreaded rendering bulldozer will perform better, DX11 has that feature
No they can't
When applications start to use more threads and more memory you need a change the cache, bigger and more flexible.Otherwise the cores will sit and wait for memory from ram and that slows performance.
L3 cache on bulldozer is 8MB 64 way set associative, compare that to intels...
Much more important than you think. This means that it has better min values and that it scales better than intel. As games will be more demanding bulldozer is going to perform better and better compared to intel
Complicated games that use a lot of memory and scale to more cores need a good cache.
i5/i7 don't have as flexible cache as phenom and prefetching don't work when memory use is heavy. It doesn't matter if you overclock when cores are waiting for memory.
I think that battlefield will be...
But that is exactly what happens if you increase the GPU power. You can do this in two ways. Lower the resolution or add more gpu power. The GPU is working much more linear. The load on the GPU doesn't change as much as the CPU. i5/i7 has very aggressive prefetchers on data. If the data is...
No! i5/i7 do very well when the load is light! If the game only uses one or maybe two threads on light loads and you have a GPU setup that doesn't break the CPU, i5/i7 will gain a lot of FPS.
Check Battlefield Bad Company 2 (DX11) here: http://www.tweaktown.com/reviews/3251/amd_phenom_ii_x6_1090t_black_edition_3_2ghz_six_core_cpu/index9.html
http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews/cpu_mainboard/amd_1090t_six_core_review/7
The conclusion is simple.
If you, like us, have been waiting for AMD to stand proud atop the podium, they do now.
If you've been hanging on to a AM2+ or 775 system and weren't sure which direction to go, your mind...
Intel's strong field are easy loads in terms of code and data that is organized, they use the cache very effectively with prefetchers in this situation. This area also simple to test ind different performance tests. But it is quite rare in normal use.
At these light loads Intel has a much...