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AMD FX Benchmarks

My self I am encouraged by the 8.429Ghz whether it be 2 cores or 8 it suggest to me that there might be some OCing head room in Bulldozer. I currently run all Intel rigs but I am no Intel fan never have been never will be. If you wish to talk about a company that has always stuck it to there customers then you talk about Intel. Unfortunately they have the best performance right now for single socket cpu's but that has not always been the case and the odds are it will not always be the case.

I am a performance nut and will always buy what ever will give me the best performance. But if AMD's performance matches or comes very close to Intel's AMD will get my dollars not Gougetel. And I would say there are quite a few people out there that feel the same way I do about that.

Intel really should be a little more conscience of the consumer relations. Some day it might just bight them in the arse. :eek:
 
Intel has a big enough chunk of the market to tell us to go to hell. AMD got them nervous a few years ago and they started spending on R&D which led to the i7. Once their lead is set they slow down and put cash in their pockets. AMD is always playing catchup as they don't have the market share or the profit margins Intel does so they always have to spend more % of them revenue on R&D and if they produce a loser then they have to suck it up for a few years until they produce a winner. This guy could be a winner. If it is a big enough winner then the server crowd starts buying them hot and heavy and then AMD wins as that is where the margins are. The Athlon 64 was the last time AMD was in the drivers seat and now maybe again. If anyone plays the stock market it would be a good time to look over AMD and see if you think it is a good buy.

Intel will be pushed and we should see a new CPU in time for Christmas.
 
Synthetic benchmarks = meh

I still think the eight real cores will be an advantage. Enough speculation... I wanna see how it folds! :D
 
Red Falcon said:
Read my post right above yours and the article, it never said that speed with all cores active.
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I did read the article and your post, and I was responding to you. Perhaps I should have used a quote. Anyway, here's a better explanation of what I was talking about.


From Red Falcon's Link said:
The team had access to dozens of early AMD FX-8150 processors and methodically worked through a batch of chips until ultimately hitting a peak of 8.429GHz using liquid-helium, easily breaking the previous record of 8.309GHz. Note that 8.49GHz was attained with only two of the processor’s eight cores enabled.
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As you'll note by my clever use of formatting tags that there are TWO > 8.4GHz over clock values listed. I was merely calling to light that fact and that ONLY the 8.49GHz run was stated as being 2 of 8 cores.

It does NOT mention explicitly what the 8.429GHz run was done with. Which is why I also called that to attention in my post. I suppose you could infer that with only a 0.061GHz difference both runs were done at almost the same configuration, however it is not explicitly stated at that source and I have seen stranger things happen.

The two numbers could also just be typos. That's another plausible explanation.
 
I have had such terrible experiences with AMD in the past that it would have to more or less double the performance of Intel offerings before I would even think about thinking about considering using one of these CPUs. :(

Having said that, 8.49GHz is pure awesomeness. :)
 
jebo_4jc said:
http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/09/13/amd_bulldozer_fx_model_8150_cpu_overclocking_preview

4.8ghz using a standard boxed asetek water cooler. They were only running the "Heaven" benchmark on it though.

So, I would guess low to mid 4ghz range should be attainable for an H50 or similar at 24/7 FAH use. Now we just need to know where it falls in terms of IPC
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lol low to mid 4Ghz? turbo clock on the 8150 is 4.2Ghz.. sorry for crushed that dream..

they either used this..
http://www.asetek.com/products/oem-standard-products/120mm-products/550lc.html

or this one..
http://www.asetek.com/products/oem-standard-products/120mm-products/570lc.html

basically an H50 and H80..

mid 4Ghz on an H50 with push pull shouldn't be an issue and odds are they were using the 550LC since that was the kit they were thinking about releasing with the 8150 instead of a stock cooler(not sure if thats still going to happen).

Spartan805 said:
The cpu-z screen shows 2cores 2threads.
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yes the record overclock was done on 2 cores which is allowed by the rules for record overclocking. they could of actually gone down to 1 core but since you can only shut off modules and not individual cores thats not possible.

Briliu said:
I did read the article and your post, and I was responding to you. Perhaps I should have used a quote. Anyway, here's a better explanation of what I was talking about.




As you'll note by my clever use of formatting tags that there are TWO > 8.4GHz over clock values listed. I was merely calling to light that fact and that ONLY the 8.49GHz run was stated as being 2 of 8 cores.

It does NOT mention explicitly what the 8.429GHz run was done with. Which is why I also called that to attention in my post. I suppose you could infer that with only a 0.061GHz difference both runs were done at almost the same configuration, however it is not explicitly stated at that source and I have seen stranger things happen.

The two numbers could also just be typos. That's another plausible explanation.
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answered above...

http://valid.canardpc.com/records.php
 
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