Crossroads: AMD FX or Intel?

[thismafiaguy]

I was very excited to hear that AMD finally released their new generation of Bulldozer CPUs. I have been waiting for this CPU for months, and have heard rumors about how it would out perform the competition dramatically with 8 core power and such. But after reading some of the benchmarks, it appears that the FX 8150 only excels in a handful of tests and categories, not the all-around badass that I thought it was going to be. Surprisingly, it fell short to even it's predecessor, Phenom x6, in several tests involving single thread apps, and it only outperformed the i7-2600k once or twice. I feel like all the anticipation and excitement has suddenly gone down the drain, and at $250, the FX 8150 is sort of the unstable median between the i7-2600k and the i5-2500k.

Is it still worth it for me to go after the FX processors? And if I do get an FX CPU, I would probably get the 8120 instead, which for about the same price, could get me the i5-2500k.

 

[c_h1132]

its decent, but the reason im not getting is it uses double the watts intel and previous phenom does!!! thats a huge amount of heat. i think i read somewhere in the 400w for an OC fx8150 compared to 200w that intel uses.

 

[iam2thecrowe]

IMO the ONLY reason to get one would be if you already had a compatable motherboard for the FX chips. If you have to go out and buy a new motherboard, then Intel is the obvious choice, the quad core 2500k is faster across the board and overclocks well and can be bought for around $200. If a quad core CPU can beat AMD's 8 core CPU, then something went very wrong at AMD, especially the rediculous power consumption that it takes to do the same or less work as an intel CPU.

 

[mailpranshu]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/315775-28-asus-crosshair-giving-biased-results-bulldozer

 

[thismafiaguy]

Best answer selected by Thismafiaguy.

 

[Mousemonkey]

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