AMD hot fix just boosted my sandy in cinebench

[grkM3]

As some of you know in some cases with hyperthreading you actually lose performance or when the program is threaded for it you can gain some performance so I decided to give the hot fix a try on my 2600k

I ran cinebench 2 times and got 9.51 and 9.52 and then installed hot fix and rebooted and ran it once and got 9.68 and then a blue screen on the second run.

Im doing some more testing now and it seems stable so far as my rig was setup to pull the least amount of watts so thats prolly why I got the blue screen at 5ghz

 

[Vesku]

"blue screen on the second run."

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[grkM3]

"blue screen on the second run."

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Its stable I forgot I had the cpu at 1.47 volts as it needs around 1.505-1.515 for 5ghz stable.

blue screen was just a coincedence

 

[skipsneeky2]

Is this the microsoft hotfix that was supposed to fix bulldozer?

Not bad for a little hotfix if thats the case

 

[grkM3]

yeah I got it from MS My system feels a little more snappy and Im about to go for a record cine run.

can someone try it but first run some before benchmarks to compare to?I only ran cinebench and should of doon win zip and PI

 

[skipsneeky2]

If you could try some games like BF3,BC2 or any highly threaded games

Perhaps maybe you might see a boost there?

 

[grkM3]

intel burn test gflops is up bigtime with hyperthreading and avx enabled.I broke 112gflops at only 4.9ghz

I couldnt break 100gflops at that speed before the hotfix

 

[richierich1212]

Yeah I did a quick two runs with my 2600K @ 4.3GHz as well.

1st run 8.16
2nd run 8.18

After hotfix
3rd run 8.25
4th run 8.30

Pretty cool. I hope this patch will improve BD somewhat, because AMD's pretty good at revising CPUs and I'll be interested in the 2nd revision of BD.

 

[grkM3]

Yeah I did a quick two runs with my 2600K @ 4.3GHz as well.

1st run 8.16
2nd run 8.18

After hotfix
3rd run 8.25
4th run 8.30

Pretty cool. I hope this patch will improve BD somewhat, because AMD's pretty good at revising CPUs and I'll be interested in the 2nd revision of BD.

I ran zip 7 at stock speeds (with hotfix)and hit 21xxx and toms got 19xxx at stock settings.

 

[ThatsABigOne]

Lol. So HT will help us even more? That sounds like a deal for my Core i7 960 at 4ghz.

 

[daveybrat]

I'd like to download this hotfix just to try it out, but cannot find it anywhere? Any help?

 

[richierich1212]

I'd like to download this hotfix just to try it out, but cannot find it anywhere? Any help?

A few topics down:

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2213100

 

[Zink]

I installed it on my HT enabled i3 and ran an older non-AVX linx in windows safe mode. I saw no difference at all, they were within 0.1&#37; of each other.

 

[grkM3]

I installed it on my HT enabled i3 and ran an older non-AVX linx in windows safe mode. I saw no difference at all, they were within 0.1% of each other.

this helps windows feed the 8 threads better and helps in avx enabled tasks.Im not suprised at all that you saw no gains.

 

[Bateluer]

Yeah I did a quick two runs with my 2600K @ 4.3GHz as well.

1st run 8.16
2nd run 8.18

After hotfix
3rd run 8.25
4th run 8.30

Pretty cool. I hope this patch will improve BD somewhat, because AMD's pretty good at revising CPUs and I'll be interested in the 2nd revision of BD.

That doesn't seem like much . . . but I'm not really familiar with the Cinebench benchmark.

Just had an interesting discussion with a coworker though, claiming that his FX-8150 was able to out perform an i5 2500K across the board. After I showed him AT's write up on BD from October, he stated that the revised chipset drivers corrected and improved the performance significantly . . . but I have only his word for that.

 

[Arkadrel]

Ironic that 8 threads got so little work for them, until AMD puts out a 8 core cpu.
Then MS actually does something for it, and Intel cpus benefit from it as well (those with 4c/8t due to HT).

Its hurting AMD though, theyd have been better off not trying to lead the "core" race, because software is falling behinde, which means your makeing something thats of no use to alot of things (not very effecient design).

ontop of that Intel has more R&D and better labs.
For AMD to ever really compete it ll have to let go of the core race stratagie (because its not effective, with software lacking).

 

[soccerballtux]

sandybench?

 

[Idontcare]

I installed it on my HT enabled i3 and ran an older non-AVX linx in windows safe mode. I saw no difference at all, they were within 0.1% of each other.

Why would you run benches in safe-mode?

Aren't there all kinds of performance enhancing settings that are intentionally disabled in safe-mode so as to increase the chances of having more compatibility with misbehaving hardware/driver combos and so on?

 

[formulav8]

Why would you run benches in safe-mode?

Aren't there all kinds of performance enhancing settings that are intentionally disabled in safe-mode so as to increase the chances of having more compatibility with misbehaving hardware/driver combos and so on?

:thumbsup:

 

[Diceman2037]

Why would you run benches in safe-mode?

Aren't there all kinds of performance enhancing settings that are intentionally disabled in safe-mode so as to increase the chances of having more compatibility with misbehaving hardware/driver combos and so on?

safe mode is perfectly fine for performance testing a cpu, unlike older versions of windows, vista and 7 keep dma enabled for memory and disk access

 

[gevorg]

it would be so sad if this hotfix will improve SB performance more than BD performance

 

[dac7nco]

it would be so sad if this hotfix will improve SB performance more than BD performance

It would also be hilarious.

 

[Idontcare]

safe mode is perfectly fine for performance testing a cpu, unlike older versions of windows, vista and 7 keep dma enabled for memory and disk access

So why do it then? Is it a way to basically avoid background bloat processes by virtue of leveraging windows safe mode as a means to never load the malware and so forth?

 

[Diceman2037]

haha, "malware" i like that.

but yeah, you can either do that or a diagnostic boot from msconfig to get a minimal environment, so any benches used don't fight other components for resources.

 

[Seggybop]

Since Microsoft has retracted it, can anyone who got it already upload it somewhere for everyone?