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Memory, high speed dual channel is best I used Kingston HyperX as well as some G.Skills for max clock.
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It has its limitations, but it does a pretty good job of cooling, but if you have a high quality air cooler, they will do about the same. I used an Antec Kuhler 920, it’s a decent CPU cooler, it’s one of those all-in-one solutions.
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That is what I am going to show you today, my results on air/water, and I will update this guide with LN2 cooling results. From what I have seen Bulldozer needs to be overclocked a lot, and tuned very finely, to produce any comparable results. Now this might seem kind of crazy, that AMD was able to increase the core count, yet increase the overclocking potential of the CPU, and in the end that might just save AMD. That will undoubtedly scale with voltage and cooling, as Bulldozer holds the max CPU frequency World Record, this CPU is really fun to overclock. Even on air/water you will be looking at 4.8 GHz-5.2 GHz per CPU, even with an 8-core CPU.
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There is one pro though, and that is that Bulldozer overclocks like Sandy Bridge for the most part, but even better in many cases. I am pretty sure by now everyone has seen Bulldozer’s tip top performance…. I have step by step for those who are new, as well as performance charts for those who are experienced: This is an overclocking guide for those who are advanced overclockers, and those who are brand new. Here is a preview video of what is to come: The Bulldozer CPU datasheet tells something about some BIOS setting that have to be implemented in a specific way so the board to be AMD certified.Everything you need to overclock bulldozer properly.
I was using some Athlon 1700+ in 2002-2004 ,when Intel still had (like always) the best CPU-s and never felt the handicap my CPU had over the Intel ones though in every benchmark i was looking my CPU was beaten to death.Īs i am usually gaming i try to put the money on the video cards.Įven though the Bulldozer is weak in synthetic benchmarks i have personally observed with this little FX 4100 that the desktop feels different compared to Phenom 2 or Athlon in the better.It may be placebo ,but i doubt as i started from the general opinion that Bulldozer is crappyĪnd i really don t care about the single core performance tests or super Pi as well.īy the way ,it seems that 970A-UD3 is not on the list AMD recommends for the 970 chipset To get a proper motherboard would cost me to much ,for a CPU said to be extraordinary to satisfy me.Īt least this is what happens price wise in my country ,an Intel based rig is to expensive for what it is.
I don t think i ll make an Intel system for myself to soon. Īdjusting the voltage to ~1,24V did not help with the clock throttling so it s not some TDP related issues.īoards made by some other manufacturers seem to be using 1,27V for this CPU by default. With BIOS settings on auto the WEI score for the CPU is 7.2, with APM OFF in BIOS (that puts the CPU on 3,6Ghz) and with CPU set up in BIOS at 3,8Ghz (the performance boost clock ) manually the score is 7.3 (memory is running at 1333 Mhz).Īlso a strange thing is that when the CPU has CnQ off it idles at 3,7 Ghz (normal boost) and when the CPU is in load goes to 3,6GHz the base frequency) practically the boost feature doesn t work.Īlso the default CPU voltage seems to be wrong at ~ 1,43V. The WEI score seems to be affected by this and by the lack of the performance boost (3,8Ghz for 4100FX) kicking in. When the CPU is under stress it sometimes goes to 3,3Ghz for short periods of times, at least this is what CPU-Z shows.You can observe this during WEI or while running Intel Burn test stress test. It seems that what it is happening to the 990XA version does happen to 970A-UD3 as well.BIOS version used is the latest F5.