Trinity hits the egg

[VirtualLarry]

Power consumption is really the only 'black eye' for me.

How bad is Trinity's power-consumption?

Edit:

AMD's TDPs are noticeably higher (100W for the higher end K-series parts compared to 55W for the Core i3s). Intel will easily maintain the power advantage as a result under both CPU and GPU load, although AMD's GPU does deliver more performance per watt. Power consumption is a major concern of AMD's at this point. Without a new process node to move to for a while, AMD is hoping to rely on some design tricks to improve things in the future.

100W TDP. Ouch! Not really mITX material, IMHO.

 

[Centauri]

^The 5700 is 65w and offers 95% of the performance of the 5800. You just lose out on ease of overclock.

 

[OBLAMA2009]

benchmarks dont mean anything to me.what would these be comparable to--i3, i5?

 

[alexruiz]

This is the motherboard I am eyeing:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138366

The 5600K is $20 cheaper than the 5800K L
Wow.

 

[Rvenger]

benchmarks dont mean anything to me.what would these be comparable to--i3, i5?

~3% slower than i3 on tested benches. Its very close though.

 

[VirtualLarry]

This is the motherboard I am eyeing:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813138366

The 5600K is $20 cheaper than the 5800K L
Wow.

Mmm, 8 SATA6G ports, and onboard video, with two PCI-E x16 slots and two PCI slots free. Would make a nice server board.

Wonder if there are drivers for WHS v1 for that board.

 

[alexruiz]

Mmm, 8 SATA6G ports, and onboard video, with two PCI-E x16 slots and two PCI slots free. Would make a nice server board.

Wonder if there are drivers for WHS v1 for that board.

Add the 6 phases VRMs, 7 segment display for troubleshoot, and the separate power phase and ground plane for audio. Oh, and I think the layout is great :drool:

Why none of the reviews used any of the Biostar Hi-Fi boards is beyond me, as I think that they got the most attractive FM2 boards right now.

 

[sequoia464]

Add the 6 phases VRMs, 7 segment display for troubleshoot, and the separate power phase and ground plane for audio. Oh, and I think the layout is great :drool:

Why none of the reviews used any of the Biostar Hi-Fi boards is beyond me, as I think that they got the most attractive FM2 boards right now.

I was looking at that board also, funny thing is I thought I wouldn't be interested in trinity at all, but they look interesting enough to check one out for a work machine.

Thinking of using one of the micro's though, not sure which one yet.

 

[Madpacket]

I'm interested in whatever board will allow for proper DDR 2400 speeds. Has anyone had any luck with a motherboard besides the "Asus F2A85-V Pro" that xbit used in their review to reach 2400mhz on the RAM? Also, what RAM to pick? How do you think that low voltage 30nm Samsung RAM will perform?

"http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820147096"

I'm wanting to focus on undervolting / underclocking the CPU a little but overvolting and overclocking the GPU / memory as I believe this will bring the biggest gains for a gaming focused HTPC.