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Old December 15, 2011, 09:26 AM
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Today Windows updater may have brought "Bulldozer" users a little surprise. A hotfix that increases the AMD flagship processors performance. As this "hotfix" is bleeding edge news any benchmarks have yet to be seen but this confirms Windows 7 was in fact hampering “Bulldozer” from performing at 100% in all prior benches. What percentage it was previously performing at has yet to be determined. Here is a small snippet from the Hotfix release notes.
This article introduces an update that optimizes the performance of AMD Bulldozer CPUs that are used by Windows 7-based or Windows Server 2008 R2-based computers. Currently, the performance of AMD Bulldozer CPUs is slower than expected. This behavior occurs because the threading logic in Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2 is not optimized to use the Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) scheduling feature. This feature was introduced in the Bulldozer family of AMD CPUs.
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Now, will this change anything in terms of performance?
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Lets see those updated reviews please HWC!
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Did anyone ever see any benchmarks on Linux when BD came out?
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yay, my fx-6100 purchase a month back may not have been in vain....
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windows not optimized to use the Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) scheduling feature

watch the CPU heat turn up now
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Curious to see real tests to see if it helped at all. I know this update was mentioned on another site and people were complaining in the comments that it made performance worse for some and only marginally better for others.

I would also see a HWC review of the 95watt version of the 8120 (have read people saying its the "best" of BD).
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Very interested to see what happens w/ this.
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windows not optimized to use the Simultaneous Multithreading (SMT) scheduling feature

watch the CPU heat turn up now
AND power consumption as well...
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