Bulldozer FX: Today the official debut of the new AMD

After much waiting and more or less confirmed the time has finally come the debut of the processors AMD Bulldozer FX . The new generation of processors from the house of Sunnyvale comes at a good time because the producer sees in an excellent position in the desktop GPU and embedded systems, where he recently proposed a wide range of APU.

Desktop CPU instead of the segment that has been in the past two years has seen AMD use Intel's counter-part in the high-end, but at the same time take a very aggressive pricing policy that has borne fruit; just think that a processor Phenom II X6 6-Core has a cost just over $ 100.

But back to Bulldozer FX , as we will see a symbol that does not "point" only new processors from AMD Enthusiast but a broader vision that includes all the hardware platform of the PC , with a focus that could be called essential for the price / performance ratio.

The PC hardware market, particularly aimed at the demanding gaming in 2010 generated more than 16.5 Million of U.S. dollars with nearly half a billion Gaming assembled. In this cauldron of almost 500 million computers, however, two thirds are systems that are aimed in some way to contain the final cost of the machine within the $ 700, leaving the systems above $ 1500 a share of about 2% slice and market (about 20%) to mid-range, if that can be defined.

In this view comes with the AMD FX processors and chipset 990FX Dozers, specifically designed for the new platform.

AMD provides advice on preparing for the exit Bulldozer

It's no secret that the architecture Bulldozer will soon appear on the consumer market in the form of desktop processors AMD FX. The chips appear to pre-order a growing number of sellers. AMD in the blog provided a short guide designed to help users prepare their systems to the emergence of Bulldozer. The information is not a revelation for the enthusiast, but, nevertheless, it does not hurt.

First, the manufacturer notes that the processor will need motherboards with chipsets 9-Series connector and AM3 +. These cards are available from manufacturers such as ASRock, ASUS, Biostar, ECS, Gigabyte, Jetway, and MSI. It is also necessary to update the BIOS or UEFI motherboard for the latest version in order to provide support for certain chips FX. Updates are available on the websites ASRock , ASUS , Gigabyte and MSI . worth noting that AMD recommends using the flash of the current generation of processors that can be problematic if the user decides to assemble a system from scratch, without having on hand an old Athlon II.

Of course, AMD recommends using a card with Bulldozer Radeon HD - more specifically - Radeon HD 6850 or higher. However, it is only a matter of taste and preference. You can be sure that the FX series PCs as well to work with graphics, NVIDIA.

AMD FX Bulldozer: official debut on October 12 in Europe

It 's official, the date for the debut CPU AMD FX is fixed, in Europe, October 12 at 18.00, AMD should launch three different versions of the CPU, FX 8xx0 8-core, 6-core FX 6100 and FX 4100 to 4 cores. The FX 8150 is a processor with 8 cores clocked at 3.6 GHz (4.2 GHz Turbo mode) and features 16 MB cache, the second "classified" AMD is the FX 8120, eight cores at 3.1 GHz (4.0 GHz in Turbo). Finally, the FX 8100 with a frequency of 2.8 GHz with a maximum clock of 3.7 GHz and 16 MB cache.

The AMD FX 6100 but has six cores at 3.3 GHz (3.9 GHz Turbo) and 14 MB cache, there will be a faster version called AMD FX 6120 which has the same TDP of 95 W, but come on the market first quarter of 2012. Finally, we would have the 'FX 4170, Quad-Core clocked at 4.2 GHz with 12 MB cache and TDP of 125W.

We just have to wait only a few days to see the actual performance.

Processors AMD FX series will go on sale 12 October

We've all been waiting for this for a long time and finally waited. AMD announced that the first wave of processors, code-named Bulldozer will go on sale October 12 and will offer customers a series of three models of FX (codenamed Zambezi) - 8-core FX-8150 and FX -8120 and 6-core FX-6100 .

AMD has decided to conduct a competent price policy and offer its flagship FX-8150 for just $ 245, while the model FX-8120 and FX-6100 will be offered for 205 and $ 175 respectively.

Model FX-8150 and FX-8120 operate at 3.6GHz (4.2GGts mode Turbo) and 3.1GGts (4 GHz mode Turbo), respectively, each have 8MB of cache L3, and their heat is at 125W. Model FX-6100 is clocked at 3.3GGts (3.9GGts mode Turbo) and a 95W heat (also available in 8MB of cache memory Level 3).

All FX Series processors offer an unlocked multiplier and support work with motherboards AM3 +.