Bulldozer vz. Sandy Bridge

[lonerider]

^ Thanks, I read his thread and got some info... however, I wish he posted some fraps/videos or some screenshots with FPS numbers. I'm upgrading from a Q6600 too, so I should at least see a BIG leap in performance. The two 2500Ks I built... were somewhat of a mixed bag. The first one (for my friend) had the lower end liquid cooling from corsair (was on sale for $49 at the time)... I had it overclocked to 4.4Ghz stable for about a month, then my friend started telling me that most of his games would lock up (SC2, WoW) after 10-20 minutes randomly of continued gameplay. So I checked his temps and they were a bit high... I had it throttled down to 4Ghz and it went stable again (till this day, no more complaints). My brother's rig, I also had it OCed to 4Ghz, since he was only on the stock air cooler. It's still stable to this day, but he doesn't really game much. This is why I wanted to try something other than an i5, but with my rather limited budget, I only have the 8120 as an option... it saves me about $50 for the cpu/mobo vs. the 2500K.

Based on OC forums, the 8120 seems to overclock as well as an 8150. When it arrives I plan to just OC it to 8150 stock settings, with the bi-turbo enabled, including power saving features turned on. I don't want to raise our electric bill, so at least I can probably run it on the OEM air cooler for the time being. Once it proves stable in the next couple of months if I think I need more OC, then I'll probably get that Antec Liquid cooler for $62 on Amazon and crank it up a bit. Now, I'm getting really excited LOL.