Bulldozer to be released Oct 12th

i'm not going to hold my breath but.... microcenter says that bulldozer will be released october 12th.....
http://cpuforever.com/Thread-AMD-Bulldo ... -Confirmed

i would love to have my new pc built before the launch of BF3!

Cant wait to see the prices and performance in real world numbers not some good estimates! Could always use a second computer!!

[DMPCo]

Cant wait to see the prices and performance in real world numbers not some good estimates! Could always use a second computer!!

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Here's hoping their 8 cores aren't just as good as an intel 6 core >.>

Gotta love that board!

[kingloser]

cant wait either. after doing some research and posting on toms hardware it seems my crappy sli performance might be because my cpu is bottlenecking me (which is what we thought).

i did bump my cpu up to 3.6 and ran a cpl stress tests and its holding without bumping voltage. however i bumped my video card up 50 mhz and i had to bump my voltage to keep that stable. had to go from .975 to 1.0v. i pulled one card out so im only running one card right now. but with those bumps ive gained about 1500 marks and 10-15 fps in 3dmark06.

so hopefully the dozers will be decent and that board/cpu combo wont bankrupt me. if it does looks like im stuck waiting for tax returns. bah.

leak prices
FX-Series FX-6100 3.3 GHz 3.9 GHz 6 MB 8 MB 95 Watt $188.32
FX-Series FX-8120 3.1 GHz 4 GHz 8 MB 8 MB 125 Watt $221.73
FX-Series FX-8150 3.6 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 8 MB 125 Watt $266.2

May just have to make me a bulldozer rig now to test the difference in performance first hand!!

http://lab501.ro/procesoare-chipseturi/ ... preview/13

Not in english, but you can see the graphs.

yeah ive been watching a thread on another website on that poor excuse of a preview.

Actually, we already have such an issue known for Bulldozer, and NO bench-marked system has the patch installed!

The shared L1 cache is causing cross invalidations across threads so that the prefetch data is incorrect in too many cases and data must be fetched again. The fix is a "simple" memory alignment and (possible)tagging system in the kernel of Windows/Linux.

I reviewed the code for the Linux patch and was astonished by just how little I know of the Linux kernel... lol! In any event, it could easily cost 10% in terms of single threaded performance, possibly more than double that in multi-threaded loads on the same module due to the increased contention and randomness of accesses.

Not sure if ordained reviewers have been given access to the MS patch, but I'd imagine (and hope) so! Last I saw, the Linux kernel patch was still being worked on by AMD (publicly) and Linus was showing some distaste for the method used to address the issue. One comment questioned the performance cost but had received no replies... but you don't go re-working kernel memory mapping for anything less than 5-10%... just not worth it!

the preview was thrown together in 30 min. half the graphs have the names switched and they did not install the patch so i'm treating that as a grain of poo.

leak prices
FX-Series FX-6100 3.3 GHz 3.9 GHz 6 MB 8 MB 95 Watt $188.32
FX-Series FX-8120 3.1 GHz 4 GHz 8 MB 8 MB 125 Watt $221.73
FX-Series FX-8150 3.6 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 8 MB 125 Watt $266.2

If I still have laggy performance with when I get the new motherboard installed, going to get a HD 6970, and if that still does not work, FX-Series FX-8150 3.6 GHz 4.2 GHz 8 MB 8 MB 125 Watt $266, this will be the next item installed

yeah ive been watching a thread on another website on that poor excuse of a preview.

Actually, we already have such an issue known for Bulldozer, and NO bench-marked system has the patch installed!

The shared L1 cache is causing cross invalidations across threads so that the prefetch data is incorrect in too many cases and data must be fetched again. The fix is a "simple" memory alignment and (possible)tagging system in the kernel of Windows/Linux.

I reviewed the code for the Linux patch and was astonished by just how little I know of the Linux kernel... lol! In any event, it could easily cost 10% in terms of single threaded performance, possibly more than double that in multi-threaded loads on the same module due to the increased contention and randomness of accesses.

Not sure if ordained reviewers have been given access to the MS patch, but I'd imagine (and hope) so! Last I saw, the Linux kernel patch was still being worked on by AMD (publicly) and Linus was showing some distaste for the method used to address the issue. One comment questioned the performance cost but had received no replies... but you don't go re-working kernel memory mapping for anything less than 5-10%... just not worth it!

the preview was thrown together in 30 min. half the graphs have the names switched and they did not install the patch so i'm treating that as a grain of poo.

Can i have the link to the article you are pulling this from?

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/sho ... lly-tested