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FX 8150 and FX 4170 Benchmarks with a HD 7970
http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=828&page=0
Thanks for the link.
FX 8150 and FX 4170 Benchmarks with a HD 7970
http://www.ocaholic.ch/xoops/html/modules/smartsection/item.php?itemid=828&page=0
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.
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.
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?
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
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?
first impressions Durvelle, please
Only could get it stable at 4.0GHz. Runs 44c under a full load
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Won't go any higher?