AMD FX Series Processors Hit Pre-Order
With the recent announcement of Intel's Sandy-Bridge-E's pending release date, we get some much welcome word that the FX-Series ("Bulldozer") is coming soon, with the CPUs going up for pre-order.
AMD's FX-Series ("Bulldozer") is expected to be release in Q4, following the release of its Opteron server based processors. We get our first sign that the release may be sooner than later, with the CPUs going up for pre-order on retail sites such as Bottom-line Telecommunications (BLT). BLT has the FX-8150 priced at $266.28, the FX-8120 priced at $221.73, and the FX-6100 priced at $188.32. We can expect the final release price to come in very close to these prices (past history has shown AMD's 1K quantity price to be $10 to $15 lower than retail price).
The AMD FX-Series processors are based on their new "Bulldozer" micro-architecture. The FX-8150 has 8-cores, clocked at 3.60 GHz, and 16 MB of cache. The FX-8120 has 8-cores, clocked at 3.10 GHz, and 16 MB of cache. The FX-6100 has 6-cores, clocked at 3.30 GHz, and 14 MB of cache.
The table below contains a summary of FX-6100, FX-8120 and FX-8150 details:
| Model | Cores | Threads | Frequency | Turbo Frequency | L2 cache | L3 cache | TDP | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| FX-Series FX-6100 | 6 | 6 | 3.3 GHz | 3.9 GHz | 6 MB | 8 MB | 95 Watt | $188.32 |
| FX-Series FX-8120 | 8 | 8 | 3.1 GHz | 4 GHz | 8 MB | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $221.73 |
| FX-Series FX-8150 | 8 | 8 | 3.6 GHz | 4.2 GHz | 8 MB | 8 MB | 125 Watt | $266.28 |
Related News: AMD FX-Series Lineup Revealed in CPU Support List

Until Bulldozer is in the hands of the first reputable benchmarking team, everything might as well be BullS**T instead.
http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php
get the news on it elsewhere though cause its not here!
Either way, the new chips will probably be the best bang for your buck CPU seen to date.
Until Bulldozer is in the hands of the first reputable benchmarking team, everything might as well be BullS**T instead.
about you "Cough" record "CLICK THIS"
http://www.techpowerup.com/152008/AMD-FX-Sets-Guinness-Record-for-Clock-Speed.html
...thats what I was implying but didn't want to link out to another news site...
Hopefully on air. Remember the Phenom IIs overclocked to 7Ghz on LN2 but only would get to about 4GHz on air.
HEAR, HEAR!
Sorry about that... I thought I would be part of the bashing for once.