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Winrar. FX absolutely stomps in Winrar.
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Winrar. FX absolutely stomps in Winrar.
i concur,
I have always thought amd's were faster around the desktop,maybe not rendering a photoshop filter,but overall quicker with the browser, opening files etc.
Real world feel ,benchies are one thing ,the boot and general environment speed is another.
Dear Clockers,
My story is at an end,I forced Amd to talk to me.
After my rep spoke to two techs.
They concluded -thermal issue inside one of the stages .
Please Rma chip.
I will complete my builds with x6 p2's for now and try this again when...
The platforms, the chips and win7 or 8 have it together.
Thanks for putting up with me .
Love your humble narrator.
Some corrections ...when I said Africa as a fab.. that was in error.
I meant global foundries is owned by an arab emirate state.
And I believe Amd is doing some fab switching.
I might also mention you guys super cool your 8150's ,
and might relate your black screens to your over-clocking.
A parting word after studying this issue,
This chip is inherently flawed in it's construction.
A bad batch perhaps,AMD claimed the chip either works or it doesn't and claimed my issue rare.
But after surfing and studying the chips layout and talking to some engineers.
This is just the beginning of a wave of returns.
This chip has internal heat issues!!!-
that is why the press kit was shipped with a water cooler .!
AND IT IS WHY TRANSISTOR COUNTS WERE LOWERED!!!!!
The press core fired to cover their as@#!
PUT IT TOGETHER...!
It is why other sites are AMD bashing.
This is a heart breaker for me!
I will never build a sandy or ivy sloggy Intel bridge rig.
I will wait until the industry fesses on this issue and fixes the mystery machine...Scooby.
I think Amd will recover ,they have always been the underdog!
Except for the glory days of the 939- that whipped Intel for three years straight and they(INTEL) had to stop being fat and Lazy "Amd made them a better company".
And we all benefited from that.
I didn't mean to scorch Intel their O.K.-
I have one in my mac and its all right I suppose.
Just not my style.. slow and steady and powerful in the render, is not what I'm after right now.
I just like the way a sceamin Amd chip works around the desktop and they make good audio riggs when setup right.
We just need to remember Phenom 1.
All was well when P2 hit.
I think that's whats going on right now- P1 all over again.
Well, I'll be upgrading when PD comes out.... I don't need it, I do want it though. I always believe in skipping at least 1 CPU design, and whenever AMD comes out with a new architecture it often takes another chip revision to get it right.
I actually think they've done pretty well this time around, no TLB bug or anything and the architecture shows plenty of promise. This is AMD's first ground up redesign since the original Athlon/K7 after all, K8 and K10 were just an evolution of the K7 architecture. It will be interesting to see where this goes.
Again, where are you hearing this? I'm pretty attuned to CPU rumors and have never heard of such a thing.
...and to what flaws are you referring? The CPU didn't perform so great, it's not a flaw; it's the design.