AMD FX CPUs (Bulldozer) 8 core

[sabersmith]

What do you all think about the new AMD FX chips?

They're 8 core chips, seems like it would be great for running multiple mmo programs at once for multiboxing.

Thoughts?

[MiRai]

There is so much speculation on these chips I would recommend waiting for the NDA to lift and reputable sites
to do real benchmarks before even thinking of touching them. Sandy Bridge - Extreme is right around the
corner after that anyway, however, those chips will come with the same extreme price tags that they always do.

[Lyonheart]

Is there any good reason atm to have an extreme chip? I mean the current i5-7s seem more than enough for anything out there. I mean with a good GPU+ a core i7 your good to go. I'm talking just for gaming.

[MiRai]

Is there any good reason atm to have an extreme chip? I mean the current i5-7s seem more than enough for anything out there. I mean with a good GPU+ a core i7 your good to go. I'm talking just for gaming.

From a multiboxing stand point... no, not with the current 2600/2700 Intel chips. In my "testing" I was able to
successfully play 30 accounts at once and I wasn't necessarily CPU limited. The system itself became quite
sluggish somewhere around the 20 game client mark but the games were still responsive. If anything I was
limited by my RAM and not how many cores I had.

[ebony]

am hopeing they will be good a lot told me not to go for AMD but i really like my hex core and am cheep so i have to get the low end lintel stuff or AMD. its a hard choice what to go for but each time AMD..

bachmark test and all the hardcore stuff will be test as always