Product Features

Overclocking capabilities - Unlocked for a big boost in performance and speed.
"Bulldozer" architecture - Designed to increase core communication for unparalleled multitasking and pure core performance.
AMD Turbo CORE Technology - A burst of speed for the task at hand. Delivers dynamic core performance boosts depending on users' workload at frequencies of up to 900MHz faster.
AMD OverDrive software - Tuning controls to push performance to the limits and monitors system stability when overclocking
32nm die shrink - Stable and smooth performance with impressive energy efficiency
Advanced Instruction Support - accelerates a new generation of applications:SSE3, SSE4.1/4.2, AVX, AES, XOP, FMA4
Larger Caches - increase everyday performance with support up to 8MB L2 Cache and 8MB L3 Cache


This CPU is Socket AM3+....

For Price/Performance this 8-Core CPU is a winner.
AMD FX 8120 (Code Name Bulldozer) will give you high performance in highly threaded Applications and Benchmarks with Newer Code. It currently stands it's ground, but it will be difficult to make all those cores work for you with todays lacking software.

AMD really went far out with this style of design and put a lot of time and pure Innovation into it. For that alone they get 5 out of 5 from me.

The big minus to this processor is the utterly hideous stock cooler. The cool part about this 8-Core Monster is the fact you can turn cores and threads on and off at will via Bios and AMD's FX software. This is a Black Edition which means you can also Overclock the CPU in a safe manner by means of a built in technique called Turbo Core.
You can use Turbo Core to increase clock speeds when needed and/or you can manually Overclock it through the Bios and/or AMD's FX software. You can run this as 4 cores with 4 threads, 2 cores with 4 threads, 8 cores with 8 threads and so on.

Overall it's a great CPU. It's not without it's issues though. Because it's brand new, built from the ground up and completley different from what anybody has ever done, Software Developers need to catch up to AMD's style of design. Once they do in the near future, this processor should further guarantee you a solid future proof setup.

That said, it's been reported that the new AMD FX CPU's suffer from scheduling problems due to Microsoft's current Windows 7 OS not utilizing the AMD CPU properly. Windows 8 resolved this issue and the newer OS understands how AMD's new 8-Core works gaining you maximum performance. Hopefully Microsoft will release a patch for Windows 7 to resolve this issue.

Despite some Negative reviews along with some Positive reviews, here is my take on the matter.
- AMD needs to further tweak this design.
- Software needs to polish up to take advantage of this new design.
- Driver Updates.
- Windows 7 Update for Bulldozer to ensure further performance and consistency.

AMD's Innovation = Intel's Success. Without the two, the CPU Industry would fall far behind in Innovation and Technology.
Good Job AMD, just fix the Quirks. Thanks...