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Alereon posted:the real concern is how it performs in more typical workloads that depend more on the performance of each thread.
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2011 03:48 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 20:15 |
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Not bulldozer, but question relating to the new poo poo from AMD. Per clock, can I expect similar performance between an ontario/zacate/llano platform as I can get from PhenomII/AthlonII? I am considering replacing my fileserver, which is currently a 45W AM2 Athlon x2 1.9GHz. If I can replace this with an APU that consumes only 18W, and not have to worry about performance, it's worth it to me (my office has terrible air flow and it gets warm in there). If it goes well I might even replace my VMware server as well (Athlon X2 2.5GHz) since it rarely caps out.
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# ¿ Mar 8, 2011 00:46 |
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mpeg4v3 posted:Has anyone heard anything on the supposed Bulldozer motherboards that'll be backwards compatible with AM3 cpus? I'm looking to build a VM server on the cheap and it'd be awesome if I can get a Bulldozer motherboard and a cheap Athlon X4 or some such now and just upgrade it a year or so down the line.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2011 01:55 |
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Factory Factory posted:I felt like it was pushing the Phenom "more cores" strategy out too far. Rather than being designed for today's (or even tomorrow's) most pressing processing needs, the chips are designed toward some highly-parallelized vision of software years from now, putting power in the wrong places compared to what most people usually wait on their processors for now.
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# ¿ May 30, 2011 14:29 |
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There are a few applications that windows 8 on arm will likely get and will allow it to be successful. Citrix Receiver and VMware View client. With those two applications, an inexpensive, low power windows PC could definately see some success.
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# ¿ Jun 26, 2011 15:46 |
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Space Gopher posted:The bigger thing, to me, would be moving consoles to x86. I guess we've gotten to the point where everything's so high-level that architecture doesn't even matter all that much, but it still seems kind of weird.
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# ¿ Jul 22, 2011 02:21 |
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Devian666 posted:Correct. It won't do anything.
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# ¿ Oct 16, 2011 14:44 |
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HalloKitty posted:Let me guess. 5.9. I'm pretty sure mechanical disks are capped there. You should get the same score with the same hardware, the scale just goes higher in 7.
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# ¿ Dec 8, 2011 23:07 |
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we received two demo DL165 G7 servers from our reseller this week. We put ESXi 4.1u2 on them, joined them to one of our VMware clusters, and started migrating VMs over. So far, I am actually pretty impressed with the bulldozer processors in them. Since it really all depends on VM load this next number is useless, but the MAX CPU utilization we saw today was 35% on a single proc 6272.
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# ¿ Mar 15, 2012 01:27 |
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adorai posted:we received two demo DL165 G7 servers from our reseller this week. We put ESXi 4.1u2 on them, joined them to one of our VMware clusters, and started migrating VMs over. So far, I am actually pretty impressed with the bulldozer processors in them. Since it really all depends on VM load this next number is useless, but the MAX CPU utilization we saw today was 35% on a single proc 6272.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2012 00:54 |
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Alereon posted:It's after the fact, but I'm curious, are you 100% sure Turbo Core was enabled and working?
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2012 03:21 |
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I would sincerely hope that AMD would at least provide an official windows 8 driver for the 4000 series. My 4850 still provides more than enough power for the PC games I play.
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# ¿ Apr 25, 2012 01:58 |
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Ragingsheep posted:Wasn't Intel also doing illegal things like paying their customers to not buy AMD CPUs? This would be the number one reason amd was unable to get more revenue when they were on top. Intel had to pay a relatively paltry sum because of it.
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# ¿ Oct 24, 2012 12:27 |
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JawnV6 posted:A living, breathing AMD fanboy? Didn't y'all go extinct around '09? You don't have to be a fanboy to find places where the product works well, in this case, the highly multithreaded world of VMware.
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# ¿ Oct 28, 2012 19:02 |
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I bought an FX-4170 on monday. I will admit to being an AMD fanboy/Intel hater, but realistically, I couldn't beat the price for the performance level on the platform.
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# ¿ Nov 29, 2012 01:14 |
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HalloKitty posted:It's not the no-brainer you consider it to be: the closest I can get in AnandTech bench is FX-4300, which is similar to the Core i3-3220, costs exactly the same, but at least with the Intel you'd have a board which you could then toss the best available CPUs in later.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2012 01:12 |
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Install Gentoo posted:The shenanigan is: AMD can finally beat 2 year old Intel chips.
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# ¿ Feb 22, 2013 04:09 |
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fx-4170 owner checking in -- I am quite happy with my purchase. I got a new motherboard, ram, cpu, and power supply for around $250 at Christmas. I couldn't get similar performance from an intel box at close to the same price.
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# ¿ May 27, 2013 22:33 |
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Shaocaholica posted:Thats true. I guess there's always the middle of the road devs who don't want to license an engine but also do a horrible job of coding their own. Whatever, life goes on.
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# ¿ May 28, 2013 04:54 |
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Agreed posted:The gestalt of AMD's current situation totally blows. That doesn't mean AMD isn't in a bad spot, it just means that they still have a fighting chance. Totally blows sounds a little more dire than reality likely is.
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# ¿ Jun 12, 2013 15:47 |
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AutoFool posted:I understand that the FX series is no good so I was wondering what you guys suggested. Thanks! Currently have an AM3+ motherboard.
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# ¿ Jun 22, 2013 11:29 |
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Alereon posted:Moving a derail from the GPU Megathread: Unfortunately, the VDI market segment is pretty small, and most shops just buy the same model server they bought for everything else.
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# ¿ Aug 16, 2013 01:04 |
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I wish AMD would embrace the low end more than they have. I would love to have something crazy like a 32 core 1-1.5ghz proc for a virtualization lab or for VDI.
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# ¿ Nov 20, 2013 00:28 |
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Alereon posted:There also are some applications that are core-limited and thus run more efficiently on Opterons, though since Xeon cores are faster and more efficient there's not TOO many applications where sheer core count wins.
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2014 01:38 |
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I'm not unhappy with my AMD FX CPU purchase, over a year later. People comment on how much better Intel is, but even the cheapest intel i3 proc was more expensive than my 4130 FX processor at the time I bought it. I have yet to find a game that I think suffers because of my proc (though I don't play all of the latest and greatest games).
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# ¿ Jan 30, 2014 01:36 |
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conductive paint? I used a heavy hand with a .05 mechanical pencil. The graphite was just conductive enough.
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# ¿ May 19, 2014 23:24 |
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Factory Factory posted:If you can't afford Intel, how can you afford the electricity to run AMD? How much time does the cpu on your home pc spend at full load? At idle there isn't much difference.
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# ¿ Aug 11, 2014 19:47 |
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Does anyone know of an AM1 motherboard (preferably one of the cheap ones) that absolutely, positively supports IOMMU?
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# ¿ Aug 15, 2014 23:58 |
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It's hilarious that when it comes to integrated graphics, an intel solution is "good enough for anything from 2005" but for compute, if it can't run crisis 6 at 4k it's crap.
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# ¿ Aug 18, 2014 02:44 |
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Factory Factory posted:There are all sorts of reasons as to why, but it all boils down to Intel doing a good job at CPUs for Core and AMD doing a bad job for A-series and FX.
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# ¿ Aug 19, 2014 01:09 |
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BurritoJustice posted:Maybe because this is a thread for recommending hardware that is a good purchase, you ignorant oval office. If you had come in saying "I specifically need AMD for *this* reason, irrelevant of it being worse" you would've got recommendations. Asking vaguely "what is a good AMD processor?" is going to get you recommended Intel because for the same money the Intel processors are objectively better. Jesus, how badly does your dick bleed after you jerk off with an intel processor?
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# ¿ Dec 30, 2014 05:08 |
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PC LOAD LETTER posted:What gets me is why the hell AMD decided to take the same route with Bulldozer and do a speed demon architecture after the failures of the P4 were clear and it was also clear that power and heat were going to still be a big problem in future process shrinks.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2015 20:15 |
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repiv posted:What's the use case of a fast-ish iGPU in a server though? You either don't need a GPU at all, or you're doing heavy GPGPU work and will be stuffing every PCI-E slot with discrete cards that crush any iGPU.
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# ¿ Apr 11, 2015 15:35 |
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ohgodwhat posted:Is Power dying too?
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2015 03:15 |
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Doesn't intel need the amd64 license?
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2015 18:52 |
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Nintendo Kid posted:They already have it, and AMD or a successor can't "take it back" as it were.
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# ¿ Jun 2, 2015 21:45 |
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Curvature of Earth posted:And please stop bringing up Cisco. Cisco is a network hardware company that wants to dominate the Internet of Things, not the Internet of Desktops.
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# ¿ Jun 3, 2015 05:12 |
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if it actually got to the point where intel needed more sales, they could just license x86 like arm does.
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# ¿ Jul 23, 2015 04:44 |
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As someone who runs power in my datacenters (finance) i would switch to x86 in a heartbeat. There is something to be said for being to able to just order something from CDW with barely more than zero thought and knowing that it will fit my needs. Power is so loving expensive, it's like $1500 just to license a single core. So my 8 core proc has only 2 cores licensed.
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# ¿ Jul 24, 2015 02:42 |
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# ¿ May 3, 2024 20:15 |
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FaustianQ posted:I've been thinking on it, but what's to recommend a 5350 over an A6-7400K Kaveri? Both have access to mini itx and the A6 has more oopmh behind it, but is that extra capability not worth the +50$ price tag?
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