new diamond from FlanK3r - AMD FX-8120 first part

[FlanK3r]

Today I show us OC results. For FX is actually LINX bad choice for testing stability....


So....the right choice is PRIME. I had not much time this days, so 20 minutes was OK for this minireview. OC of FX was more than 1700 MHz from default clock!!!
This is really impressive OC increase
test platform:
ASUS Crosshair V Formula
FX 8120 95W
Noctua NHD14
2x 2GB Gskill RipjawsX 2133 MHz
HD4870
AX1200W

So, 4840 MHz with 1.5V in load, CPU was a bit warm, but Noctua still forces the effort to successfully cooled. ....CPU-NB set at decent 2420 MHz and RAM 2152 MHz with timings 8-9-8.
For comparison, I used to chart a decently overclocked Core i7-2600K at 3800 MHz, 1600 MHz RAM with 8-9-8 and finally AMD X6 1100T clocked at 4209 MHz and uncore anything over 2800 MHz. Ram, I set it at 1866 MHz at 8-9-8.
AIDA memory test


superpi, hyperpi a wprime
-lower is better


Cinebench R10, Geekbench a Fritczhess
more is better


POV RAY, y-crucnher a wprime1024M
-lower is better


Maxmem, CPU hash, CPU queen
-more is better


Zoner photo studio and MaxxPi
-lower is better, in Zoner dominated Thuban, FX 2nd. In MaxxPI is situation in favor for FX.


7-zip and x264 encoding
-for all CPUs we can see great results here


mediaespresso, MaxxPI megatasking and practical encoding in Handbrake a practical decompression
-lower is better


Megatasking in R11.5 and Cinebench R11.5
-more is better


Winrar benchmark
-... needless words


After overclocking, we can see that neither Thuban overclocked enough to overclocked FX. Sometimes the differences are smaller (except superpi and wprime), sometimes larger. It might sound ridiculous, but significantly overclocked FX can sometimes compete decently OC Sandy Bridge 2600K.

2400 MHz RAM very easy...



Cinebench at 4940 MHz



Superpi 32M,quickly



Superpí 1M over 5150 MHz (again no much tweaked)



validation with all cores


This is end of first part, more theoretical benchmarks....In next month Il testing 8150 FX in real aplicatons as example:
3DsMax 2011
Adobe Photoshop 5
Zoner Photo Studio 12
Cinebench R11.5
POV RAY
Handbrake
TMPGenc
Specview
etc...