AMD Heaven GamExperience

Tradeshow & OC events by leeghoofd @ 2012-06-20

AMD has joined forces with HeavenMedia for a European tour, mainly targeting the gamers audience. AMD's FX Bulldozer CPU's have been labeled as too slow in many hardware reviews. Even tough the new Bulldozer architecture looked initially very promising on paper, the performance was heavily dependent on the application being used. Sometimes performing mediocre, even slower than the previous generation Thuban processors. However sometimes beating similar priced Intel CPU's. On top of that, the infamous 8 core marketing strategy error, set some real bad blood. As performance in many multi-threaded applications was unexpectedly low. To be honest,  these Bulldozer CPU's were not really worthy to be named after the world famous FX series. But AMD fought back with some insane CPU-Z suicide runs and this GamExperience tour is very welcome to warm up the gamers again for the AMD hardware lineup.

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Freebies

Inviting the attendents to play and have fun is one thing. But to let them walk out out empty handed is another thing. At regular intervals the stage show commenced and drew an enthousiastic crowd. By just yelling the AMD brand name, small freebies were thrown into the public. But there was more to get. How about Antec PSU's and cases, Steelseries gaming stuff, Corsair Cases and their Vengeance gear or LG Monitors ?

 

Even one of Petri's AMD FX-8150 CPU's was handed out to a lucky winner. He just had to guess our max stable frequency : 7680Mhz.

 

Sometimes it was asked to do funny stuff , like quickly changing a t-shirt, wheelbarrow racing and even once it was required to collect a bra from one of the present girls. One guy was lucky as he brought his girlfriend. She happily obliged to his wishes and handed out her bra. He went home with a collection of the freebies.

 

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