Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 ("Bulldozer") CPUs

2011-10-17 Thread Robar Philip
On Oct 16, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Mark Humphreys wrote: > On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robar Philip wrote: > >> Notice though that its 8 cores are not a win for builds, whereas the build >> test is one of the few tests where the core i7 2600K really separates itself >> from the rest of the pack—

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 ("Bulldozer") CPUs

2011-10-16 Thread Mark Humphreys
On Sun, Oct 16, 2011 at 6:49 PM, Robar Philip wrote: Notice though that its 8 cores are not a win for builds, whereas the build > test is one of the few tests where the core i7 2600K really separates itself > from the rest of the pack—being almost 30% faster than its nearest > competitor and 50% f

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 ("Bulldozer") CPUs

2011-10-16 Thread Robar Philip
On Oct 16, 2011, at 7:21 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > On 17 Oct, 2011,at 12:18 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: > >> So...anyone interested in or planning on running OpenIndiana on one of >> these? Reviews have been disappointing but this mainly seems to have >> centered around poor single threaded p

Re: [OpenIndiana-discuss] AMD FX-8150 ("Bulldozer") CPUs

2011-10-16 Thread Dave Koelmeyer
On 17 Oct, 2011,at 12:18 AM, Dave Koelmeyer wrote: So...anyone interested in or planning on running OpenIndiana on one of these? Reviews have been disappointing but this mainly seems to have centered around poor single threaded performance, whereas things are actually kind of interesting wit