I had a little extra cash and some spare gear to put together a Craigslist rig, so I went and picked up a new 8120 @ MicroCenter for $140...
What can I say, I was bored!
I was curious about the newer chips (all mine are batch 11xx), so I thought I'd post some results incase anyone else was interested.
First, heres the newest batch they had on hand, not very new but it was the latest week they had:
The first thing I noticed about this chip was that it ran MUCH cooler than the older ones...
I realize this is only one sample and YMMV, but it seems like they've been working on the leakage (temps/power) more than the clocks.
It's NOT a bad chip, and clocks decently on ambient cooling but it still doesn't match my older ones other than running lower temps.
I should have pulled out the Kill-a-Watt and tested power consumption. I get the feeling it'd be better (may test later), but once I saw it couldn't quite keep up with my older samples clock wise I pulled it and went back to the 8150 (my best ambient w/c clocker)...
Anyway... Here's what I got with this chip, 28 minutes (P95 Custom/Max Mem).
I was going for a 30 minute run, it crashed @ 28 but I was also surfing while blending, so IMHO this should be stable for daily use.
Max temp only hit 58c, compared to 68c on the 8150 (die sensor), so theres definetly some improvement on the process...
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