Apologies for triple posting, but this is an important bit of news that Singaporeans, being prone to the primacy and recency effect, might miss in the article I highlighted above. I just wanted to highlight it:
Just above Llano we will have the long awaited Bulldozer CPU.
AMD originally wanted to launch Bulldozer at Computex but performance issues with its B0 and B1 stepping chips pushed back the launch. Now we're looking at a late July launch with B2 silicon, but performance today is a big unknown. Apparently the performance of B1 stepping silicon doesn't look too good.
The much vaulted B1 stepping isn't even that good. A stepping can boost clock speed (and thus Turbo), but can a stepping fix architectural deficiencies? To paraphrase a few people in white: "No amount of engineering can prevent a bad architecture from sucking"
Edit: Dang adrianlee beat me to the punch! Sometimes I think you are actually a Google news bot in disguise
我要买GT-R!;56328114 said:
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pek cek la
i just hoot my rig after my CT which is next week alrdy
wait till dulan
Just go and get it. I honestly think now after all these that you can't go wrong with a i7-2600K. Even if Bulldozer is faster than it your motherboard will be compatible with Ivy Bridge, which should be extremely capable considering that it's 22nm and has tri-gate transistors.
I'm considering getting i7-2600K myself too. Just waiting until the end of Computex.
Summary: We now have news from two reputable sources (Vijay Anand and Anand Lal Shimpi) that Bulldozer's launch is pushed back. Actual market availability will most likely be even later, given that foundries need time to produce market quantities.
