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Need a mobo with AM3+ support? Mine just AM3 ready =( an upgrade means new mobo?

Why not post picture of all the CPU packaging? Have you tested it yourself already?
You can't use an AM3+ processor with an AM3 motherboard but you can use an AM3 processor with an AM3+ motherboard. All AM3+ sockets are identifiable with its distinct black socket instead of the white that AMD has used in the past.

Mine was the white one so I need to change my mobo just to use these new bulldozer proc right? sad..

If the pre release benches are true and BD is in fact underwhelming compared to its previous generation then you could probably still get a Phenom II X4 or Phenom II X6 and still have similar or better performance than BD. The PII X6's still does have better multithreaded performance even compared to the Core i5 2500K but pale in comparison in single threaded workloads. It is quite cheap these days to get an X6. If you're not keen on rebuilding it to an Intel based then I do suggest that you upgrade to a PII X4 or PII X6 now or at least till stocks last because it will be phased out very soon.

The official reviews should be out within 24 hours and we'll see if BD is worth it's hype.

waiting for the review from the xpert.is it worth to choose amd fx over i5 2400.

waiting for the review from the xpert.is it worth to choose amd fx over i5 2400.

Gaming wise it may not be worth choosing an FX processor over an Intel Core i5 2400 if the highest end Bulldozer processor, the FX-8150, is really slower than an Intel Core i5 2500K for such a matter. In terms of multi-threaded applications, it will probably be better.

Gaming wise it may not be worth choosing an FX processor over an Intel Core i5 2400 if the highest end Bulldozer processor, the FX-8150, is really slower than an Intel Core i5 2500K for such a matter. In terms of multi-threaded applications, it will probably be better.

waiting for the review from the xpert.is it worth to choose amd fx over i5 2400.

Got to play with a review sample. Not mine. I'm not NDAed.

The figures above posed by w00key do seem legit, but they're worst cases. In most games, BD trades places with a 2500K, in my own Fallout New Vegas testing, it beat my Phenom II X4 (3.7 GHz) by around 20%. The 2500K beats my Phenom II by the same 20%.

It's hilariously overclockable. Jury-rigging the biggest heatsink I could find, a ~7 year old Coolermaster Hyper6+ (which doesn't fit AM2/3) hacked into a pretty cheap Gigabyte GA990XA-UD3, I got 4.85 GHz out of it. At that kind of clock, the 2500K was looking for its parents with tears in its eyes, losing out on single threaded benchmarks by 10% and multithreads.... well, it wasn't really funny anymore. I'll share with you this:

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* I'd like to have overclocked the 2500K more, but I was limited to a pretty shitty motherboard which looked to be an Asus but had no identifying marks and Intel's stock cooler.
** x264 June 2011 used. VirtualDub passing through AVISynth to the CLI x264 binary. VD was using a MoComp deinterlace filter which scales linearly to, according to the author, at least 24 cores.

It's competitive. For some workloads, you're going to want Intel. For others, AMD at last can out-perform Intel. I didn't have a 2600K to test, but if I had, I'd imagine BD would have beat it.

Of course these are all overclocked figures. Blame contractual loopholes.

Edit: Oh yeah, not allowed to say which model BD I was playing with. Also, to address the below, I couldn't boot the 2500K box with a multiplier any higher than 38. Even with scary voltages. I blame the Hybrid-EFI BIOS or some quirk of the board.