AMD FX-8150 Prices Falling Fast

The price of AMD’s FX-8150 has reportedly been reduced significantly lately. Online sites show the CPU at a low 179 EUR for the European buyers. That would be around 235 USD for the US customers.

Ever since the launch of its current flagship, AMD has been aware that the level of performance its first iteration of the Bulldozer architecture was not high enough to pose any threat to Intel’s top offering at that time.

Therefore, AMD targeted the FX-8150 against Intel’s Core i5-2500K and has priced it accordingly.

For those working with many archives or CineBench 11.5 type of rendering, AMD’s 8 core CPU should prove a better solution over Intel’s i5-2500K. The “Bulldozer” based CPU also has a strong advantage when it comes to live encryption and x264 HD encoding.

The FX-8150 will also provide more value for Excel 2007 and 2010 users along with the OpenGL fans.

For the ones that are looking for a cheap alternative to Intel’s Core i5-2500K processor and are planning to migrate towards Windows8, AMD’s FX-8150 would be a decent choice.

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