AMD FX 4350: My first FX build!

[Deleted member 185158]

Looks good! HT clocks up pretty fairly too, nice job. You have a decent setup and it seems that Biostop board is holding up ok.
How do the temperatures look? Have you run any quick benchmarks for the heck of it?

 

[hat]

Biostop

 

[eidairaman1]

Biostop

Call it Bioshock

 

[storm-chaser]

Hey now! Take it easy on my Biostop/bioshock mainboard! She's running a little hot but she's holding her own!

Fan over the VRM area is definitely a must have for this setup!

Looks good! HT clocks up pretty fairly too, nice job. You have a decent setup and it seems that Biostop board is holding up ok.
How do the temperatures look? Have you run any quick benchmarks for the heck of it?

Cinibench @ 4.9Ghz: 389. For reference, my Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.3 scores a ~489. Not looking good! lol

Little more fun at 5.0Ghz

 

[Borna Horvat]

Why on earth did you buy that cpu? 8320 is under 100$ in some places, if it had to be FX. I also think fm2+ athlon is slightly better in that range.

 

[storm-chaser]

Why on earth did you buy that cpu? 8320 is under 100$ in some places, if it had to be FX. I also think fm2+ athlon is slightly better in that range.

Just for the fun of tweaking and tuning a new CPU and to familiarize myself with the FX platform
Once I get bored with it I'll just put it back on eBay and hopefully recoup most of the purchase price

 

[Borna Horvat]

Well, it may very well be the cheapest quad cpu out there, but it's a very old platform with relatively low IPC and games will offload data onto other cores more often then not, so only the 8 core one is worth it. IMHO, of course.

 

[storm-chaser]

Well, it may very well be the cheapest quad cpu out there, but it's a very old platform with relatively low IPC and games will offload data onto other cores more often then not, so only the 8 core one is worth it. IMHO, of course.

Yeah for sure. Even 8 cores is not enough to be worth it despite the relatively low price they go for, I just wanted to get familiar with the platform in general and I'll sell it (or keep it for my CPU collection haven't decided yet) but yeah, even at 5.0Ghz the system is noticeably slower than my Core 2 Quad Q9650 @ 4.3Ghz... so that should put things into perspective. Still a marvel of engineering and I think FX is the highest clocked CPU over at hwbot which is pretty cool.

 

[Borna Horvat]

Clock is good for gaming. I remember when you needed a 500 MHz CPU to run mp3. From my perspective, clock is good for running a lot of stuff at once, but IPC is needed to keep single core effective and reduce offloading to other cores, so 8086k is currently IMHO best gaming CPU out there (when overclocked to 5-6 GHz). You get cores, IPC and clock.

 

[storm-chaser]

Clock is good for gaming. I remember when you needed a 500 MHz CPU to run mp3. From my perspective, clock is good for running a lot of stuff at once, but IPC is needed to keep single core effective and reduce offloading to other cores, so 8086k is currently IMHO best gaming CPU out there (when overclocked to 5-6 GHz). You get cores, IPC and clock.

Cant wait to get my hands on an 8086K in a few years. That is going to make for a fun build, and I totally agree it's one of the best CPUs for all around performance.

 

[witkazy]

"Late bird gets tomato" Confucius.

 

[storm-chaser]

Wprime results are in!

EDIT: Here is my Q9650 result @ 4.275Ghz:

 

[Borna Horvat]

You should be pretty good at super pi aswell with that clock.

 

[storm-chaser]

I've attached the full benchmark report from AIDA64 (with my FX clocked at 5.0Ghz). So you can look for yourself and see how this processor stacks up against the competition.

 

[Deleted member 185158]

Use this WPrime instead brother. You can use this one for submissions at HWBot the other one you've used cannot submit. just an fyi

 

[Mr.Scott]

That's Awesome Storm.

Here's a little back in the day eye Candies for you.

FX-8320 @4441Mhz 329 reference clocks. Memory Cas 5 @ 877 Mhz Mushkin Redlines. Did also experiment with Cas 6 at 1000Mhz on the same memory sticks.
Traded this setup with Mr. Scott. I also did de-lid this chip.
PiMod 32M to ensure stability.

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And here's what I had going on it. Short benchs would go at 5.5

 

[Durvelle27]

And here's what I had going on it. Short benchs would go at 5.5

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It's no fun if you have to disable cores

 

[DR4G00N]

It's no fun if you have to disable cores

It's much more fun if you do disable cores because you can do things like this. SuperPi is single threaded so more cores does nothing except make it run hotter.

 

[Mr.Scott]

It's no fun if you have to disable cores

Very well.
I don't 'have' to disable anything.

 

[storm-chaser]

Use this WPrime instead brother. You can use this one for submissions at HWBot the other one you've used cannot submit. just an fyi

Here is our result... Got that one submitted @ hwbot

 

[Durvelle27]

It's much more fun if you do disable cores because you can do things like this. SuperPi is single threaded so more cores does nothing except make it run hotter.

Yea but that’s easy. Anyone can disable cores and achieve 5GHz+ but how many run all cores above 5.2GHz. That’s much harder and requires a hell of a lot of tweaking.

 

[Mr.Scott]

Yea but that’s easy. Anyone can disable cores and achieve 5GHz+ but how many run all cores above 5.2GHz. That’s much harder and requires a hell of a lot of tweaking.

That wasn't his point, just maybe not the best example.

 

[storm-chaser]

Trust me when I say, Mr. Scott knows his stuff

 

[DR4G00N]

Yea but that’s easy. Anyone can disable cores and achieve 5GHz+ but how many run all cores above 5.2GHz. That’s much harder and requires a hell of a lot of tweaking.

That's not difficult either, you just need a good chip, board, cooling and mems and that's it. My 8300 has a lame core so 4.7 on 8 cores is all it'll give. Disable some cores and it's happy to run well past that.

 

[Bones]

Eh......

Eh.... Again......