Hello, it's been a while since I last posted on here but UPS delivered my AMD FX-8120 today, as well as a new motherboard and enclosed water cooling setup.
Currently my experience with Bulldozer has been pretty positive, although while running Prime95 I do notice that the multiplier changes on it's own, from what I can tell I've done everything to disable this in the BIOS but it still does it.
It seems to keep 4 cores at the correct multiplier and then 4 are changed to a lower one. There are also times where all 8 cores stay at the correct multiplier, however it seems like this could be one reason why benchmarks weren't that impressive. If the multiplier drops down to 7 when it's usually 17 (in my case 22) it's obviously going to have issues, however that's just me speculating...
Anyway I thought I'd open this thread up since I'm guessing I'm one of the first consumers to have this processor and I am going to run some tests and see how far I can push it. I will also be looking to this thread for some assistance with overclocking as I've never done much with overclocking and this is the first processor that I actually got the courage to change stock voltages.
So far I was able to do 4GHz right out of the box without changing anything but the multiplier. After 4GHz things get a little unstable and increasing the voltage seems necessary. Currently I'm at 4.5GHz @ 1.360V and the temps are sitting at 49C at 100% load running Prime 95.
Currently my experience with Bulldozer has been pretty positive, although while running Prime95 I do notice that the multiplier changes on it's own, from what I can tell I've done everything to disable this in the BIOS but it still does it.
It seems to keep 4 cores at the correct multiplier and then 4 are changed to a lower one. There are also times where all 8 cores stay at the correct multiplier, however it seems like this could be one reason why benchmarks weren't that impressive. If the multiplier drops down to 7 when it's usually 17 (in my case 22) it's obviously going to have issues, however that's just me speculating...
Anyway I thought I'd open this thread up since I'm guessing I'm one of the first consumers to have this processor and I am going to run some tests and see how far I can push it. I will also be looking to this thread for some assistance with overclocking as I've never done much with overclocking and this is the first processor that I actually got the courage to change stock voltages.
So far I was able to do 4GHz right out of the box without changing anything but the multiplier. After 4GHz things get a little unstable and increasing the voltage seems necessary. Currently I'm at 4.5GHz @ 1.360V and the temps are sitting at 49C at 100% load running Prime 95.
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