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[Alex-Ro]

But will it work on am3 mobo,or only am3+?

[chew*]

But will it work on am3 mobo,or only am3+?

Your asking the wrong question.

Will it work? Yes

The right question is will it be optimal? No.

[Canis-X]

I have permission to release some home stuff now.





Enjoy

Was that speed stable at all on the phase or just a validation? Can you say what it can run stably run at on phase? My phase runs at -55 to -60C (at the evap) so I am hoping to get close to what you showed if not better.

[xBanzai89]

Your asking the wrong question.

Will it work? Yes

The right question is will it be optimal? No.

What do you mean by optimal? Power savings not being there, turbo not working, or the CPU just not performing as good verse being in am3+? If I can get a moderate overclock and it will perform as good as the sane clock on am3+ I am all set if my board supports BD.

[Gilgamesh]

chiv is better suited to thuban, ch5 is better suited to bd.

Thanks

[chew*]

The info I have offered is all I can legally disclose at this time so don't take it as me being rude and not answering questions.

[mR Yellow]

What do you mean by optimal? Power savings not being there, turbo not working, or the CPU just not performing as good verse being in am3+? If I can get a moderate overclock and it will perform as good as the sane clock on am3+ I am all set if my board supports BD.

I would also like to know this. I don't care about the power features. Just performance

Yes or no will do in terms of perf?

[EnJoY]

I would also like to know this. I don't care about the power features. Just performance

Yes or no will do in terms of perf?

Yes. No. Maybe.

[xBanzai89]

The info I have offered is all I can legally disclose at this time so don't take it as me being rude and not answering questions.

Understandable.

Is there any 900 series mATX motherboards coming out from any of the manufactures? I wouldn't mind getting a proper AM3+ socket, but I do not want to get one of the older 800 series.

[Canis-X]

The info I have offered is all I can legally disclose at this time so don't take it as me being rude and not answering questions.

Ok, thanks chew*

[TESKATLIPOKA]

Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable

[ryboto]

Understandable.

Is there any 900 series mATX motherboards coming out from any of the manufactures? I wouldn't mind getting a proper AM3+ socket, but I do not want to get one of the older 800 series.

I want to know the same thing, only regarding mITX boards....

[radaja]

Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable

yea this one needs to be taken with a Super Huge Grain of Salt and maybe get a tetanus shot for good measure,because his stuff seems Toxic

[Canis-X]

Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable

Still these are from an ES chip. chew* and JF said that we shouldn't believe them.

Source: http://www.overclock.net/amd-cpus/11...aunch-faq.html

Q. I saw a benchmark on xyz website. Is that how bulldozer will perform?A. No. Nothing posted before launch will be representative of actual performance. To get actual performance, you need:

Final production silicon
Final processor microcode
Final system BIOS
Final OS optimizaitons
Final drivers
An app compiled with the latest flags
A person who understands the app and configures the test properly

Without these things (and there are probably more), you cannot get an accurate benchmark. Any extrapolation of a crappy benchmark gives you a crappy estimate of actual performance. Period.

Oh, and many of the benchmarks that you see were probably not run, those are just charts made in excel. It's really easy to make a chart in excel - what do you want, bulldozer faster by 3716%? Intel faster by 293%? Sure, I can do either one in 10 seconds. Why are you arguing about benchmarks that probably aren't real?

[TESKATLIPOKA]

Canis-X Actually I am waiting for chew* to classify It as the biggest BS ever.

[Dresdenboy]

Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable

AGESA 0.0.9.2 or 1.1.0.0?

[Canis-X]

Canis-X Actually I am waiting for chew* to classify It as the biggest BS ever.

Gotcha

[LowRun]

There are good overclockers, very good overclockers, incredibly good overclockers and then there's MACCI.

Hail to the king!!!

[TESKATLIPOKA]

Dresdenboy No, he tested It on GigaByte GA-990FXA-UD7 and the bios was F5 and that is with
AGESA 0.0.9.2 from the info on gigabyte homepage.

[Evantaur]

I have permission to release some home stuff now.

thanks for these videos

(wow you really managed to piss off the one who shall not be named)

[Canis-X]

Ok, I keep seeing AGESA lately, what is it and what does it do? How does it impact a CPU?

[TESKATLIPOKA]

Canis-X If I am not mistaken, with AGESA code they blocked TLB bug in Barcelona which resulted in weaker performance.

[cesariuth]

Great news guys, the noname blogger says his pal Peter sent him some tests comparing IPC between BD and Thuban at 4.2Ghz no turbo (1 thread)
SuperPI +22% for Thuban
Cinebench 10 +13% for Thuban
Cinebench 11.5 +23% for Thuban
wPrime 32M +42% for Thuban
Fritzchess (both 6 threads) +24% for Thuban
Seriously Its too unbelievable to be believable

I think And that is:

Cinebench 11.5 BD 8c 3.6GHz = 6.6pts
SP 1M at BD 4.2GHz = 20s

[chew*]

Ok, I keep seeing AGESA lately, what is it and what does it do? How does it impact a CPU?

It's microcode injected into a bios.

For every cpu generation and or revision the microcode can be tuned/optimized and even without a silicon revision.

From there board partners can play around and "tweak" it even more via bios.

[Dumo]

As simple as this.....If your FX8150 too slow then sell it or return it for refund or you can wait untill it available for purchase.

Any overclocking results up to this second are not from "retail ready cpu" and should be view as an "engeneering sample" results