X2 3800+@2.55 vs 820D@3.5 Impressions and benchmarks ! ** Update, encoding bench results in **

[Hacp]

I'm still wondering how the P-Ds with the new ceder mill cores will do. ALso interested in the ceder mill P-4s. Less heat+ CHeap processors+Overclocking= Nice. Right now, I don't think that the P-Ds interest anyone at all. They are just bad chips, unless you go with water or some other way to quickly remove heat from your case.

 

[Markfw]

Even water=$$$$ My test was to try pseudo -cheap high air cooling. Didn;t cut it.....

 

[Duvie]

Originally posted by: Markfw900
So you think a fortron 450 is not good enough with virtually NO video card ???? God this thing puts out a lot of heat and sucks more power than I thought !!!!

BTW, my PC4800 is due Thursday for my 3800+ to run 1:1 and hopefully a higher OC, and 1 gog total memory.

Edit, wait, I went for two days with more stuff running and no problems with stability at 3.5,1.475 vcore. But then it gets hot, locks up, and you says its power ??? What am I missing (although it does sound logical based on my 3800+ ventures....)

Cause if it was heat it would have just throttled down so it wouldn't freeze or just hit the 70c and shutdown like it did on us once...

Think about it Mark...If it made it to 70c and rebooted before running a stressful 20-30 minutes of S&M (3.43ghz 1.45v) then why would it freeze now with less???

I dont think it is necesdsarily the PSU...It could be the power of the mobo, or perhaps the vcore is not enough yet.....

 

[Pabster]

Originally posted by: Hacp
I'm still wondering how the P-Ds with the new ceder mill cores will do. ALso interested in the ceder mill P-4s. Less heat+ CHeap processors+Overclocking= Nice. Right now, I don't think that the P-Ds interest anyone at all. They are just bad chips, unless you go with water or some other way to quickly remove heat from your case.

If the previews are any indication, don't look for a dramatic difference. The power consumption has apparently only been reduced about 10-15% and that isn't much when you are pushing 150+ watts under full load.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: Markfw900
So you think a fortron 450 is not good enough with virtually NO video card ???? God this thing puts out a lot of heat and sucks more power than I thought !!!!

BTW, my PC4800 is due Thursday for my 3800+ to run 1:1 and hopefully a higher OC, and 1 gog total memory.

Edit, wait, I went for two days with more stuff running and no problems with stability at 3.5,1.475 vcore. But then it gets hot, locks up, and you says its power ??? What am I missing (although it does sound logical based on my 3800+ ventures....)

Cause if it was heat it would have just throttled down so it wouldn't freeze or just hit the 70c and shutdown like it did on us once...

Think about it Mark...If it made it to 70c and rebooted before running a stressful 20-30 minutes of S&M (3.43ghz 1.45v) then why would it freeze now with less???

I dont think it is necesdsarily the PSU...It could be the power of the mobo, or perhaps the vcore is not enough yet.....

Good points !! I think I will just try the 3430 for a while and see what happens.

 

[AkumaX]

it was probably just some random fluke. after being outside for 6 hours in the cold (long story), it was refreshing to come into my dense warm-air filled room

 

[LTC8K6]

Bad chips?

Were there any "bad" AMD chips that ran hot and/or wouldn't overclock well?

 

[stevty2889]

Well I finished ordering my 830D. Should have it by the weekend so I'll be able to test it out. Gonna use my thermaltake jungle 512 with it. It seems to actualy work better than the bigger heatsinks, cause I throttled with my XP-120 no matter what I did, and actualy got better temps with the jungle512 then I did running the bigwater. I've only got a 420w Thermaltake PSU though, so not sure how thats gonna fair.