Anyone know when we will see some Piledriver chips for AM3+?

[bobbth]

Originally Posted by Phido

Overall
* Performance looks decent. Its faster than a 1100t and 8150 in everything.
* Not bad. At the $200 price point its competitive. Bang for your buck stuff.

With all of AMD's troubles, this is at least a small step forward. They won't sell buckets into desktops, but that is a dying market anyway. Servers, render farms, HPC etc they offer value for money.

It's good to see AMD competitive again in the bang-for-buck market, I'm almost certainly going to upgrade all of my AM3+ systems to piledriver based systems. Hell I'll probably buy a few 8320's just to overclock and bench for fun.

[Phido]

I think the 8320 will be popular for renderfarm, folding farms etc. You get rendering/encoding performance very close to a 3770k for half the price (well nearly). Your $160 CPU also supports unlock multis and ECC. Its very strong integer performance in multi threaded stuff means great for server boxes.

In pov ray it looks like its got a 10% performance advantage over a 3770k.

The only workload that intel clearly has an advantage is gaming. The mix workloads and lightly threaded makes it struggle more than any other workload.

When prices stabilise here for maybe $210 you could get a 8320 and a mobo (sata3, usb3 4 ram slots etc).

I would be interested in C32 or G34 setups and also undervolting. AMD seems to run high volts to hide yeild problems. Many people undervolt at 1.2 or 1.1 v at stock clocks just fine.