AMD FX 4100 Bulldozer Benchmarks

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Durvelle27

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Thanks for the link. :) It is pretty interesting to see how some current chips stack up to some of the old heavy weights. Just think, if you bought a Q6600 more than five years ago and overclocked it, for the most part you'd still have a very decent gaming experience.

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with new AMD CCC 12.10 Drivers got a nice performance boost

HD 6950 2GB at Stock Settings

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I've got a FX 6300 OC'd to 4.5ghz along with a 7850 OC. Going to try to get around to running some of the same benches tonight and compare :)
 

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I hope to join you shortly, about to crack open my case and insert my recently purchased FX-6300.

I'll be specifically benchmarking Starcraft 2, but I'm using my own replay file so I'm just going to see how it improves performance of the same motherboard compared to my older overclocked Phenom II in SC2. I figured for $119 at Microcenter, plus a free motherboard, it's not bad for incremental improvement, though I want to see how SC2 fares. I'll try to resell the free motherboard with my old Phenom II, but no idea how much they'll go for.
 

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I hope to join you shortly, about to crack open my case and insert my recently purchased FX-6300.

I'll be specifically benchmarking Starcraft 2, but I'm using my own replay file so I'm just going to see how it improves performance of the same motherboard compared to my older overclocked Phenom II in SC2. I figured for $119 at Microcenter, plus a free motherboard, it's not bad for incremental improvement, though I want to see how SC2 fares. I'll try to resell the free motherboard with my old Phenom II, but no idea how much they'll go for.

I did and am trying to do the same thing. Doesn't currently seem to be much interest in my PII setup on the FS/T forum. Good luck heh
 

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Sorry guys benchmarks won`t be until tomorrow as i`m waiting for some thermal compound
 

KingFatty

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Ok can someone explain the way the FX chips throttle themselves?

FX-6300. I ran a benchmark with the fan on low/silent mode, then re-ran the same benchmark with same overclock, but putting the fan on high I got better performance?

Normally I'd guess it's throttling based on heat, but the CPU was around 30 C? Also, I was watching the CPU performance in the windows 8 task manager, and none of the cores ever hit 100%?

So it wasn't too hot, it wasn't stuck at 100%, ??? I've been overclocking just by changing the multiplier and the voltage so far. But I didn't think adjusting my fan setting could make a difference in the benchmark score? If I were to guess before this, I thought my use of the CPU fan settings would be the difference between crashing and not crashing, but I thought it would be the same score and not increase the score like this with more cooling?
 

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Ok can someone explain the way the FX chips throttle themselves?

FX-6300. I ran a benchmark with the fan on low/silent mode, then re-ran the same benchmark with same overclock, but putting the fan on high I got better performance?

Normally I'd guess it's throttling based on heat, but the CPU was around 30 C? Also, I was watching the CPU performance in the windows 8 task manager, and none of the cores ever hit 100%?

So it wasn't too hot, it wasn't stuck at 100%, ??? I've been overclocking just by changing the multiplier and the voltage so far. But I didn't think adjusting my fan setting could make a difference in the benchmark score? If I were to guess before this, I thought my use of the CPU fan settings would be the difference between crashing and not crashing, but I thought it would be the same score and not increase the score like this with more cooling?

What benchmark did you run
 

KingFatty

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I used a 3v3 replay in Starcraft 2, and checked the FPS in FRAPS.

Here is my old chip, where I played around with it and took some benchmarks before putting in the new chip. I thought it was interesting how the CPU at 2.8 GHz with overclocked CPU-NB at 2.6 GHz, was just as fast as the CPU at stock 3.2 GHz with stock CPU-NB at 2.0 GHz.

But the FX chips are different. I'm still collecting data on the FX, but I need to understand how the throttling works? I disabled the boost feature. Anyway, here is the data I collected on the Phenom II, but I'll post the comparison FX-6300 charts later:

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codyray10

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Ok can someone explain the way the FX chips throttle themselves?

FX-6300. I ran a benchmark with the fan on low/silent mode, then re-ran the same benchmark with same overclock, but putting the fan on high I got better performance?

Normally I'd guess it's throttling based on heat, but the CPU was around 30 C? Also, I was watching the CPU performance in the windows 8 task manager, and none of the cores ever hit 100%?

So it wasn't too hot, it wasn't stuck at 100%, ??? I've been overclocking just by changing the multiplier and the voltage so far. But I didn't think adjusting my fan setting could make a difference in the benchmark score? If I were to guess before this, I thought my use of the CPU fan settings would be the difference between crashing and not crashing, but I thought it would be the same score and not increase the score like this with more cooling?

Make sure you disable AMD APM setting in bios. I watched the same thing happen running some benches with my 6300, it would fluctuate every few seconds down to a 15x multiplier and then stay there for a few seconds before going back to 22.5x
 

KingFatty

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Make sure you disable AMD APM setting in bios. I watched the same thing happen running some benches with my 6300, it would fluctuate every few seconds down to a 15x multiplier and then stay there for a few seconds before going back to 22.5x

Did you disable every single one of the APM settings? That seems to be the consensus, but I'm curious if there are any settings that won't make a difference for throttling, but would make a difference to let me save power when I'm at idle or browsing text-based websites?
 

codyray10

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Did you disable every single one of the APM settings? That seems to be the consensus, but I'm curious if there are any settings that won't make a difference for throttling, but would make a difference to let me save power when I'm at idle or browsing text-based websites?

In my bios its "AMD APM Master Mode" and the options are auto/enable/disable. I have that to disable. As for the power saving, you can still try to enable CNQ, just run some benchmark and watch cpuz to make sure the cpu is running at the OC speed while under load.