Quote Originally Posted by dartaz View Post
Horrible performance

i7 2600 looks better than FX-8150 in most multi-threaded benchmarks despite having 4 less cores and lower GHz

In lightly-threaded benchmarks i5 2500 completely destroy FX-8150. Actually, even Phenom II looks better in single-threaded benchmarks
So please, oh please buy yourself a single core Duron and enjoy it instead of coming here and moaning how BD sucks in single threaded apps.
Who will buy BD?
OCers bored with SB
Xtreme OCers chasing cold
People who want nice multithreaded performance but cannot afford 2600K
people who use x264 for their video stuff(me).
Well I belong to all of those except xtreme clockers, as I live in UK, no snow here and I don't have SB to be bored of it, though I do have Thuban, and I am bored with it
I do video editing quit a lot with Cyberlink Power Director, which is AMD friendly and uses x264 as one of the filters, which soon might get some nice FMA4 speed ups. I also like to test new games which come out to see how they run on my system, and make videos about it. And more games than not started to like more cores than more ghz.
By the way, some european retailer listed 8150 for 229 euros. So that is not that bad at all for a fun CPU.