I did a test last month with a FX-4100 4 core CPU that is supposedly clocked at 3.6-3.8GHz and I really felt it wasn't as good as a X4-955. Now, AMD has priced it in the same range as the X4-955 so its in direct competition with it. It seemed like PowerSDR was faster on the FX-4100 but the rest of the system felt sluggish.
This FX chip seems like a few good ideas about 2 years ahead of its time. Its major advantages are it is better at multi-core processing (which windows and programmers are not ready to accommodate) and it tries to offload all floating point math off to the processor on the graphics card, especially if it sees a ATI HD6000 series video controller. My testing, by the way, did use this video card. 73 On Mon, Dec 19, 2011 at 10:14 AM, Peter G. Viscarola <[email protected]>wrote: > Neal's advice and Jim's advice is solid, and matches my experience. > > Just to expand on and emphasize something Jim mentioned in passing: One > thing to keep in mind as you shop is that "latest and greatest" is not > always best: You should avoid the AMD FX-series ("bulldozer") chips at > this point. While being highly promoted in the gaming arena, this chipset > series has a group of features that are not properly/fully utilized by > Windows (or any operating system) at this point... and the result is that > the performance of AMD FX-series chips is not great. > > Peter > K1PGV > > > _______________________________________________ > FlexRadio Systems Mailing List > [email protected] > http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz > Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ > Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: > http://www.flexradio.com/ > -- Neal Campbell Owner Abroham Neal LLC Work: +1 540 645 5394 Mobile: +1 540 645 8171 Save $100, $85 or $50 during our Holiday Computer Sale _______________________________________________ FlexRadio Systems Mailing List [email protected] http://mail.flex-radio.biz/mailman/listinfo/flexradio_flex-radio.biz Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/flexradio%40flex-radio.biz/ Knowledge Base: http://kc.flexradio.com/ Homepage: http://www.flexradio.com/
