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December 3rd, 2011, 09:30 GMT · By

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AMD Bulldozer CPUs Selling Out Surprisingly Fast

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Reviewers may have been generally disappointed in the Bulldozer central processing units, but even with the outcry on the Internet, the chips are selling well.

Then again, Advanced Micro Devices never actually said that Bulldozer would smack Intel chips around.

Bulldozer always was described as something that would be at the level of Core i5, but people probably hyped it up more than they should because it was given the FX moniker.  

Either way, the 8-core FX-8150 and FX-8120, FX-6100 and FX-4100 don't suffer from a lack of buyers.  

Of course, getting sold out could be indicative that the inventories of such CPUs aren't all that big, but that doesn't take away from how the units are, at the end of the day, gone from shops and retailers.  

Meanwhile, AMD Stopped Shipping 45nm Phenom II and Athlon II CPUs, so look for one quick if you like them better.
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Comment #1 by: Dave-T on 03 Dec 2011, 20:11 UTC reply to this comment

It is either high demand or poor supply (I.e. low yields) I tend to think the latter.


Comment #2 by: Chupi on 04 Dec 2011, 15:45 UTC reply to this comment

This is no wonder, because it is good value for the money.
Just look at the Passmark CPU Benchmark Chart here:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_value_available.html


Comment #3 by: JoeGP on 27 Mar 2012, 09:50 UTC reply to this comment

Low yields ? i don't think so, they are just buying them faster then they can be made, and that's no wonder either when they offer similar performance for far less.

That's why i bought an AMD Phenom II X4 955 instead of the i5-2600, they both had very similar performance but the AMD was almost $100 (30%) cheaper.
Even if the i5 was slightly better, i'd rather spend the extra $100 on a better graphics card for example.

For people with limitless budgets AMD will always be 2nd best.

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