Pros: Cheap, server grade, full virtualization, 8 real cores
Cons: none
If you've seen all the negative review on the FX-8150, you might be afraid to try this chip. For me, it's a godsend. I don't play videogames, if you do maybe this chip isn't for you.
I run more of a server/workstation than a desktop computer. However, having a small, unprofitable business, I don't have an unlimited budget.
For me, the FX-8150 is by far the best chip on the market. For my purposes, it beats an i7-3960X, which costs more than my entire system did. The chip also supports ECC memory, which the i7-3960X does not, but I'm still not sure if my motherboard does...
Here's my system:
AMD fx-8150
Asus sabertooth 990fx
16 Corsair vengeance 1600
OCZ ZT 650W PSU
OCZ Vertex 3 60G ssd
Seagate 3TB hdd
Asus EAH6850 GPU (stupid mistake, should have gone with a firepro, live and learn I guess)
Antec twelve hundred case
All and all, this system runs loops around my old rig. The motherboard has a five year warranty, which is great.
The whole setup (I already had the hard drives) cost me about $1000 with taxes, which is less then the price of a similar intel chip without taxes (16% sales taxes where I live).
Also, currently G34 socket motherboards don't seem to come with SATA III, which you need to appreciate a modern SSD. Instead of spending 1000$ on a 16 core AMD opteron, I would buy two of these systems.
And don't be fooled by intel's hyper-threading, it's nothing compared to these cores. Try running a lot of VM's and you'll see what I mean. Intel sucks at VM.
I run more of a server/workstation than a desktop computer. However, having a small, unprofitable business, I don't have an unlimited budget.
For me, the FX-8150 is by far the best chip on the market. For my purposes, it beats an i7-3960X, which costs more than my entire system did. The chip also supports ECC memory, which the i7-3960X does not, but I'm still not sure if my motherboard does...
Here's my system:
AMD fx-8150
Asus sabertooth 990fx
16 Corsair vengeance 1600
OCZ ZT 650W PSU
OCZ Vertex 3 60G ssd
Seagate 3TB hdd
Asus EAH6850 GPU (stupid mistake, should have gone with a firepro, live and learn I guess)
Antec twelve hundred case
All and all, this system runs loops around my old rig. The motherboard has a five year warranty, which is great.
The whole setup (I already had the hard drives) cost me about $1000 with taxes, which is less then the price of a similar intel chip without taxes (16% sales taxes where I live).
Also, currently G34 socket motherboards don't seem to come with SATA III, which you need to appreciate a modern SSD. Instead of spending 1000$ on a 16 core AMD opteron, I would buy two of these systems.
And don't be fooled by intel's hyper-threading, it's nothing compared to these cores. Try running a lot of VM's and you'll see what I mean. Intel sucks at VM.
I have no doubt that it does well in servers, but this review just sounds like a heavily biased justification for buying something that got bad reviews.
I truly am sorry that AMD let it's fans down in this current series of CPU's. I was planning on buying one after all the hype, but for the moment my money is better spent with Intel.
P.S. where's your evidence for hyper threading not comparing to AMD? technically they're both not using "true" cores since AMD shares resources between cores. I'd rather have 4 fast cores than 8 slow cores, but that's just me. I'm sure hyper threading does fine, and anyone "running a lot of VM's" and getting the sense that it's slower on one and not on the other, is probably just a fanboy and has a biased placebo effect. I really doubt there's any noticeable difference.
but anyways, I'm glad you're happy with your new chip. that's all that counts, right? who cares what anyone else thinks.
For VM's, the difference is very noticeable. My evidence is in actual usage. I have two intel machines doing the same thing, one is an i7-2600, which has VT-x and VT-d. I can run a lot more VM's simultaneously without slowdowns on the amd system. It's nothing subjective, as I run these machines 24/7 and only care about what they do.
Phoronix also did do some tests, but only running one VM: http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=ubuntu_1204_virt&num=3
I understand my needs are nonstandard, but if you want a server class chip for a consumer grade price this is the one to get. I really feel like this is an opteron or xeon grade chip. And yes, that feeling is subjective.
I took a risk buying this chip, I thought that the cores might not work and I'd be limited by the modules, just as the hyper-threads have not worked for me with intel, but I'm glad that hasn't been the case.
sorry to break the news to ya mate...
Sorry, I am No fan-boy, but just disagree with your points of view.. (which you have the right to have.).
Post one professional website that puts even the FX-8150 ahead of the 2600K common.. not some site you knocked up with your mates.