Quote Originally Posted by wez View Post
In the multi threaded apps I've tried so far my OC'ed 8120 is faster than my OC'ed thuban...

What apps have you run?
Mainly 3d rendering programs, the closest it got to my thuban was 6.51 @ 4.6ghz in cinebench vs 6.65 for my thuban at 3.86ghz. Other 3d programs were worse with the 8120 falling behind 10-20%. I'm not sure if its the bios or cpu but my 8120 cannot boot with my ram set to 1866mhz, I was forced to use ram at 1600mhz which probably hurts performance. Likewise I couldn't get much out of FSB, HT link or NB on the 8120. I was going to test it out in linux and compiling but the steamworks BSOD issue makes my computer useless with it so I had to put my thuban back in.

I also tested rendering on 4 threads compared to 8. 8 threads is only about 50% faster than 4 threads, I don't know if it's the lack of memory bandwidth or software support for bulldozer modules.