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AMD 3870K has landed @ the 'egg

Hmm actually thats my bad, I totally missed the a8-3870 post. I had seen the 3670K thread, but nothing about the 3870.
 
i'm waiting for other etailers/retailers to get it
then we can see a little price competition 🙂

my local fry's already has the price sticker for it on the board $139.99
They said it won't be in stock till the 5th however.

Another forum thread where we talked on the subject a good deal.
 
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Soulkeeper said:
i'm waiting for other etailers/retailers to get it
then we can see a little price competition 🙂

my local fry's already has the price sticker for it on the board $139.99
They said it won't be in stock till the 5th however.

Another forum thread where we talked on the subject a good deal.
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It's 144 dollars. Not sure how cheaper you want it :biggrin:
 
Don Karnage said:
It's 144 dollars. Not sure how cheaper you want it :biggrin:
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considering that the preorders on amazon were $160+ until newegg started stocking it ...
competition is always good

I can live with $139 I suppose, waiting for the 5th 🙂
 
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bought an a63670k
not a huge oc guy but ill update
dunno what stock cooler looks like, fm1 is unfamiliar territory for me
should be here tommorow
 
antisocialmunky said:
The linux guys say that the A8 can match a i5-2500 when overclocked making it pretty much better than Bulldozer.
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http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=amd_a8_3870k&num=3

At 3.5GHz it seems to do well against the i5-2400S which is SB 2.5GHz quad, seems you'd need to hit around 4GHz to get to i5-2400 @ 3.1GHz. If your not set on low power it seems a decent APU solution for the moment.

Bulldozer may be disappointing but it's still showing it's multi-threaded legs especially with Linux where it is faster than the 2500K in some tasks (not taking potential max OC into account).
 
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I am purchasing one today along with a ASUS F1A75-I Deluxe for a Mini-ITX build. Hopefully the board will allow some GPU overclocking.
 
the last I looked at the llano, IIRC, the main bottleneck for graphics is actually system memory bandwidth and speed, and not so much the clock of the graphics chip itself.
 
Well I've got a 8GB kit of 2133MHz RAM coming along with it. My concern is if there is a BIOS option to change the GPU multiplier. I guess we'll see!
 
gbeirn said:
Well I've got a 8GB kit of 2133MHz RAM coming along with it. My concern is if there is a BIOS option to change the GPU multiplier. I guess we'll see!
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I have the F1A75-I Deluxe sitting in a box
Just looked thru the manual and there are no options for nb/gpu freq/mults
just cpu mult, apu freq, and mem mult

This doesn't mean you won't have the option once you plop in an unclocked llano
It might show the option if it detects one.

I currently run the asrock A75M-ITX and prefer it over the F1A75-I
the asrock board has gpu freq setting (even tho non-unlocked chips ignore the setting)

the asrock has a vga connector
note that the asus board has a dvi-d connector, you have absolutely no support for older vga crts.

the asus board is a lot more stable than the asrock board atleast
It easily recovers from bad bios settings where the asrock board will corrupt the bios or at least enter an unrecoverable state.
Both boards have pretty much the same breath of voltage and mem settings.

Note that neither board is good for more than about 5MHz bclk increase due to a missing 133MHz divider. Very reminiscent of the old socket A KT133 days

you'll end up with problems booting the OS due to the sata and other peripherals being overclocked
 
I get the feeling that llano would put 2x the mem bandwidth to use if it was available (ie: tri/quad channel)
 
karmypolitics said:
the last I looked at the llano, IIRC, the main bottleneck for graphics is actually system memory bandwidth and speed, and not so much the clock of the graphics chip itself.
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If you're using a discreet GPU though, does it go back to not really mattering? (assuming not using dual graphics)
 
karmypolitics said:
the point though is that this "black edition" kinda doesn't matter so much.
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Actually it does. When anandtech did their initial testing of the A8-3850 it was discovered that performance went up with faster ram. I believe almost 20% gain in some instances.
 
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