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Ouch, I guess everything is subjective then :shrug:

It pisses me off that AMD essentially forces TR users to purchase a POS Asetek based AIO solution, which is simply whiskey tango'ed to be...

ComputerBase tested the whole Noctua TR4 line-up.
A long story short: They suck (barely sufficient at stock).

They kept a stock 1950X 0.2 - 4.9 degree C below the rated tDieMax (68 degree C).
...

Thats a bridge, not a capacitor.
Bridge has resistance of zero ohms so you can replace it with similarily (physically) sized 0 ohm resistor.
The component has not failed without a reason so you...

Is this software using double precision?
Changing the DPFP from 1/8 to 1/2 on Hawaii makes barely any difference at all?

Also compiling the kernel appears to give several errors in CodeXL for...

I don't have the official production data for these, but the variance appears to be very small.

FX-8370E = 1.15000V - 1.20000V (for 3.3GHz)
FX-8370 = 1.30000V - 1.33750V (for 4.0GHz)

The stock...

1. Crosshair V Formula-Z <> Sabertooth 990FX R2.0
2. M5A99FX PRO R2.0

Those three are the best AM3r2 boards available.
No competition really.

I've been using these settings for two days now.
I have been playing some Arma 3, encoding some Blu-ray episodes to MKV with X264, doing some general browsing, watching Youtube and all the other...

The ODMs are most definitely interested in improving the efficiency, however they are still far more interested in reducing the cost.
The motherboard industry is rather unhealthy in terms of...

Dave, my personal preference is: FX-8370E > FX-8370 > FX-8350 > FX-8320 > FX-9370 > FX-9590.
The FX-8320E would probably go right after the FX-8370 models, however I cannot comment about it since I...

You mean the base clock would be at 4000MHz and the boost up to 5GHz?
The trouble in clocking the cores that high is the fact that the design reaches it's critical point at 4.6GHz region.
Beyond...

Did some additional test on one of the FX-8370E.
Obviously I have done some binning but these are the same chips that are shipping to OEMs and reviewers.
So the only sorting has been done by me.
...

Linpack <> IBT, OCCT (Small Data Size) are around 90% of the stress that the most recent Prime95 V28.5 LargeFFT torture test generates.

Running any of these, including Prime torture test at stock...

A short answer would be no, however it can be done with a proper knowledge.
The value is fused so altering it requires using either JTAG or a password protected index register.

It is easier just...

I don't think the normal use of Prime95 result as high power draw as the torture test, or does it?
AMD has some specially developed power viruses created to simulate worst case (unrealistic)...

CoreTemp is tCTL only.
It does not support any of the external LPC/IO sensors (AFAIK) which are used to read the tCase (SB-TSI).

Some results inbound later today.

I am just waiting some water...

I usually set the voltage and clocks to the intended level an start encoding a MKV with X264 (which is the most stressful real world workload).
After around 15 minutes of encoding I check where the...

So it is finally the second of September...

So far I have posted a picture of a crown (which once belonged king George XII of Georgia) and hashtags #kg & #Alphabet...

#kg which stands for...

There seems to be plenty of misunderstanding around the 8.722GHz run on FX-8370.

Unlike some of the news falsely claim not all of the 4 compute units (8 cores) were operating at the frequency of...

Really?

:D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Crown_of_George_XII_of_Georgia.jpeg/220px-Crown_of_George_XII_of_Georgia.jpeg

#kg
#Alphabet

;)

You're spot on that.
Until the official release everything is pure speculation.

Let's hope for the best and fear the worst :)

In future the chipset (FCH) will be integrated to the C/A-PU.
Excavator is the first non-Cat core to have a FCH inside it.

For desktop Carrizo this changes nothing as the external FCH will be...

There isn't much point if any in releasing a brand new design for AM3+ socket.

The platform is completely outdated in terms of the power infra (SVI 1.0) and the CPU package itself.
Worse yet the...

Things that you would like to have are quite different to what can actually technically be done.

- Steamroller supports only up to 3 compute (6 cores) units.
- TDP for a six core Steamroller with...

Everyone needs to adjust their expectations for the new uArch, eventhou JK himself (along with several other talented persons) is working on it.
AMD's resources are extremely limited and it most...