AMD FX-4100e Bulldozer with one module disabled...save energy?

[waltchan]

Well, I guess I didn't understand your requirements for "computing diversity". I won't ask why, and don't pretend to understand why either, but I'm sorry for giving you a hard time about your choice, if you already have an 1150 as your primary rig. Carry on, and have fun!

No problem. I bought and resold a lot of FX-6300 and FX-8320e from Micro Center only to get the free Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 board after $40 off combo. I have surplus of AM3 parts.

 

[waltchan]

Drat! Stupid budget BIOSes. Okay. Can you tweak your voltages downward with something like amdmsrtweaker?

This Gigabyte board don't offer manual adjust voltage. Only Asus and Biostar offer this feature.

 

[DrMrLordX]

Er well, not exactly . . . the 970a-ud3p has manual voltage adjustment I think.

Still, can you get amdmsrtweaker to work? That should allow you to alter your p-states regardless of what board you're using.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

I already have a LGA1150 on my desk, which is a Celeron G1850 running Windows 10. My desk requires 5 different PCs with 5 different sockets, 5 different operating systems (from XP to 10), and 5 different motherboard brands. I keep everything diverse here and never discriminate any brand. I found AM3+ works best with Windows 7 only.

In all honestly, AM3+ works best with Linux IMO, performance for Bulldozer chips under Windows 7 is a mixed bag.

 

[waltchan]

Tried putting in my FX-4100e in ECS A960M-MV board, and the voltage sticks at higher 1.42V even with turbo off. The ECS board also has a very-thin cheap heatsink for GPU, so not built to last.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813135349

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't understand why you need to use the chipset IGP. 760/780G is weaksauce. And putting an FX chipset into one of them is not the wisest idea, IMHO, because of VRM cooling.

 

[cbn]

In all honestly, AM3+ works best with Linux IMO, performance for Bulldozer chips under Windows 7 is a mixed bag.

Does this translate to games as well?

So if a Intel vs. AMD processor were compared on a Windows game (that is also available on Liunux) we would see a respectable amount of difference?

 

[DrMrLordX]

Games are universally slow on Linux due to reliance on OpenGL and sometimes-funky drivers. Unless you're playing a 2d game, maybe.

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

Does this translate to games as well?

So if a Intel vs. AMD processor were compared on a Windows game (that is also available on Liunux) we would see a respectable amount of difference?

Yeah, I was referring to OS related tasks, not specifically gaming. Although...... Linux has been getting exponentially better for gaming (over the past 2 years) thanks to Valve dragging the industry along with SteamOS. Gaming performance still appears to trail Windows, but the gap does appears (at least to my eyes) getting much smaller.

SteamOS has been getting a lot of mainstream games within the last couple of months. Linux was a pretty much a total dead end for gaming 4-5 years ago. Now -- Linux probably has a better game library than the PS4.....

 

[MiddleOfTheRoad]

Games are universally slow on Linux due to reliance on OpenGL and sometimes-funky drivers. Unless you're playing a 2d game, maybe.

It's improved a lot in the last 6 months -- at least if you install Steam and are using an Nvidia card. Radeons are still a little funky under Linux, fingers crossed that Crimson will finally right that ship.

 

[superstition]

I found AM3+ works best with Windows 7 only.

There is nothing wrong with its performance in 10.

 

[myocardia]

There is nothing wrong with its performance in 10.

Well, of course there's something wrong. It scores a point or two lower in the only software that he seems to use, Passmark single-threaded CPU. At least, it's the only software he's ever mentioned here. You'll notice that he doesn't even say which benchmark he's talking about. He doesn't say because we all already know which single-threaded benchmark he's talking about, when he says "that CPU only scores XXX or X,XXX", as he's done multiple times in this thread alone.

 

[waltchan]

Yes, it's still going strong today. It was made on March 2012, and the last FX-4100 I have (others with higher stock voltage already sold). I'm unsure how long I can keep this before the next FX upgrade at reasonable rate, other than the FX-4300 made on January 2017 coming in the mail today.