AMD's Bulldozer processor architecture has been in the works for many years and has been delayed many times, causing all sorts of speculations. The "Zambezi" FX processor is one part of the Scorpius platform which combines the "world's first consumer 8-Core desktop processor" with already available 9-Series motherboard chipsets accompanied by Radeon HD 6000 graphics processors. AMD heavily stresses pairing the right graphics card with the right CPU to obtain the proper balance of computing strength depending on the task you are trying to accomplish. In many cases, having a powerful GPU will improve application performance in ways that a CPU simply cannot do alone. Having a powerful CPU though is no doubt necessary in order to support the GPU in graphically intensive applications. Bear in mind that we're not talking just about games now, since even majority of contemporary Internet browsers are now GPU accelerated, thanks to HTML5, WebGL and Adobe Flash 11.0. AMD is claiming that this new CPU will offer a new level of performance at a price point that is attractive. Today we will be reviewing whether or not the FX Series Processors and Platform deliver on that value proposition and how they hold up to the rest of the processors out there.