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[Manicdan]

i hope no one hates me for wanting a 2module/4core BD. with overclocking it should still beat my thuban in multithreaded, but demolish it for gaming. i just dont have any reason to use more than 4 cores right now and lower power consumption means i can go cheaper on the board and save a little cash on the electric bill, and alot of cash on the chip. i just feel like i should throw myself off a bridge for upgrading to less cores, lol.

[BeepBeep2]

i hope no one hates me for wanting a 2module/4core BD. with overclocking it should still beat my thuban in multithreaded, but demolish it for gaming. i just dont have any reason to use more than 4 cores right now and lower power consumption means i can go cheaper on the board and save a little cash on the electric bill, and alot of cash on the chip. i just feel like i should throw myself off a bridge for upgrading to less cores, lol.

That would be AMD's equivalent to Sandy Bridge. Ivy Bridge is what this should be competing with.

[DedEmbryonicCe1]

i hope no one hates me for wanting a 2module/4core BD. with overclocking it should still beat my thuban in multithreaded, but demolish it for gaming. i just dont have any reason to use more than 4 cores right now and lower power consumption means i can go cheaper on the board and save a little cash on the electric bill, and alot of cash on the chip. i just feel like i should throw myself off a bridge for upgrading to less cores, lol.

I'm with you on that. If the 970 had been available back then I would have never bought my 1090T. The only thing I use more than 4 cores for is converting lossless audio to Ogg vorbis to put on my Rockbox'ed Sansa Fuze. That process is limited more by my HDD speed than anything else at this point so I doubt I'd lose much with 4 cores. That said I may still end up with a 8 core Bulldozer some day if there is a sufficient difference in overclocks versus the cheaper parts because I can never get enough single-threaded performance.

[RaV666]

I'm with you on that. If the 970 had been available back then I would have never bought my 1090T. The only thing I use more than 4 cores for is converting lossless audio to Ogg vorbis to put on my Rockbox'ed Sansa Fuze. That process is limited more by my HDD speed than anything else at this point so I doubt I'd lose much with 4 cores. That said I may still end up with a 8 core Bulldozer some day if there is a sufficient difference in overclocks versus the cheaper parts because I can never get enough single-threaded performance.

Thing is, thubans overclock generally better than deneb, so i dont see a point getting 970 for single core performance .
Anyhow, im sure 2 module bulldozer will show up eventually to be replacement for Phenom X2 and Athlons.
Besides, with more potent turbo i dont think there is going to be a problem with single cpu performance.

[Manicdan]

I'm with you on that. If the 970 had been available back then I would have never bought my 1090T. The only thing I use more than 4 cores for is converting lossless audio to Ogg vorbis to put on my Rockbox'ed Sansa Fuze. That process is limited more by my HDD speed than anything else at this point so I doubt I'd lose much with 4 cores. That said I may still end up with a 8 core Bulldozer some day if there is a sufficient difference in overclocks versus the cheaper parts because I can never get enough single-threaded performance.

what rav said is right
with my 1055T (that i got for 126$) i was at 3.7ghz on all six cores, but 4.25ghz on the 3 turbod cores, which is a really nice OC and really tough to get on all 6 stable because of the really high power draw (it uses 1.52v in turbo)