AMD's Piledriver and K10 architecture faceoff

Cilus

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Guys, check out the extensive review in Tomshardware: AMD's Piledriver And K10 CPU Architectures Face Off - Targeting Budget-Minded Enthusiasts With AMD CPUs

This review will clear many of your doubts about choosing the right Processor for your needs.
 
d3p

d3p

PowerHouse
IMO For Day - today gaming, a simple quad core with a decent card is enough.

Nice improvements there anyway with Piledriver. AM3+ is kinda future proof according to me.
 
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Cilus

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Not a simple quad core. You need one with good amount of L3 cache and good overclocking capabilities. That's why the Athlon II X4 processors were not able to keep up with the Phenom II X4 and FX X4 processors.
The real sweet things are FX-6350 and FX-6300 which was dominating that price segment and currently Intel i3 processors are not at all recommended. In the recent games, FX-6350 has kicked everyone out of the competition and if you bring CPU intensive workloads, even FX quad cores kicked out the i3 3220.
 
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Wise Old Owl
After reading that review and my hands on experience on Stracraft 2 Heart of Swarm, Its safe to say that my good ol Phenom X4 955 still has some juice left for another 1-2 years of decent gaming. Also FX6350 seems to be a viable and cheap upgrade over my current processor.
 
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^^ Are you overclocking? Overclock the processor to 3.8 GHz + level and fetch the juice out of your Phenom II 955 BE. I used to own one and was able to reach 3.5 GHz with the stock cooler. So with Hyper 212 EVO, I think 3.8 GHz is pretty much possible.
 
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Wise Old Owl
I have ran it stable on 4Ghz earlier. Currently running it at stock frequency with lowered Voltage & Still it plays SC2 on Max Visual Enabled without any issues. Will overclock soon though as sometimes in 4x4 Multi it tends to lag a bit.
 
ZTR

ZTR

Cyborg Agent
Great to know that my CPU is still powerful enough to last another year or two lol

And even mine is running at stock with lowered frequency xD
 
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Now, in power consumption, the idle power consumption is more or less same here, around 10W higher for FX series. But when you run an intense application which can stress all the cores, no doubt, power consumption is higher with FX series, but if the application needs long time, say in case of a video encoding from Bluray to X264 using hanbrake, FX-6300 will take reasonably shorter time period. So overall power consumption in this case might be similar if you consider the total period of time, the application is running.
 
topgear

topgear

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Cilus said:
^^ Are you overclocking? Overclock the processor to 3.8 GHz + level and fetch the juice out of your Phenom II 955 BE. I used to own one and was able to reach 3.5 GHz with the stock cooler. So with Hyper 212 EVO, I think 3.8 GHz is pretty much possible.
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I can't go over 3.8 Ghz with hyper 212 evo but then again it may be due I've a b2 rev. cpu and the temp hovers around ~52c, anyway, thanks for sharing the review :)
 
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Wise Old Owl
I got the later revision and stable it at 4 GHz (Stable = Runs all my games and software without crash. Never tried the Stability Check softwares as such). Temperature does seem to shoot though. But max I got under load is like 70 Deg. which I think is below its threshold.
 
ZTR

ZTR

Cyborg Agent
Tech_Wiz said:
I got the later revision and stable it at 4 GHz (Stable = Runs all my games and software without crash. Never tried the Stability Check softwares as such). Temperature does seem to shoot though. But max I got under load is like 70 Deg. which I think is below its threshold.
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Voltage?
Cause even I have the C3 version and would like to over clock some time in future for a long term
 
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CyberdyneSystems Model101
Cilus said:
^^ Are you overclocking? Overclock the processor to 3.8 GHz + level and fetch the juice out of your Phenom II 955 BE. I used to own one and was able to reach 3.5 GHz with the stock cooler. So with Hyper 212 EVO, I think 3.8 GHz is pretty much possible.
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I OC it to 3.7Ghz . I oculd never run it stable at 3.8Ghz. I have CM Hyper N620 CPU cooler. 3.7 Ghz is the max I could push it to.
PS: I have the C3 revision
 
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Wise Old Owl
Yep. All Hail my luck Please :D
@ZTR: I did the OC like an year back. Can't recall exact values but I think it was between 1.4v to 1.5v.

I think I will get my hands dirty with OC tonight and post result tomorrow :)
 
topgear

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if you can do try running prime95 small FFT test and post the temps - 1 hour should be enough but keep a close eye on the mobo and cpu temp though - you have been warned ;)
 
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Wise Old Owl
I only fire up Prime95 when I am feeling cold :D

As long as my most demanding game (SC2 HoTS) runs smooth for hours without issues then its stable for me :)
 
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