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AMD 9850 Black Edition

jessjess said:
just had my mobo fail :( gonna rma it but bought an Asus M2N-Sli nForce 560 Sli. whats this like the the 9850? maybe get cooler than it is atm!!!
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tbh phenoms on am2 boards isn't worth it because u won't get the full performance... as much as 20-30% performance hit.
 
to be fair i dont often use the 11.2GHZ avalible to my processor. Might have to look into the reviews, if any body here has any direct experiance please let me know.

Bloody Gigabyte.....
 
Gashman said:
11.2Ghz? :confused:
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I presume that's 2.8GHz per core. Although 4 x 2.8GHz cores = 11.2GHz CPU like two car's next to each other at 70mph being a single car at 140mph would be great for apps that can't make good use of multiple cores. :p

Although on a more serious note, was your M2N SLI that failed 125W CPU compliant? Might explain it failing perhaps.
 
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jessjess i don't think u didn't understood my post mate. on am2 boards it only supports HT 1.0 where the am2+ boards supports HT 3.0. so u will see a performance hit using the 9850 on a am2 board. as for the core speeds it doesn't add up like that.. all 4 cores run at 2.5ghz but doesn't add together..
 
gareth170 said:
jessjess i don't think u didn't understood my post mate. on am2 boards it only supports HT 1.0 where the am2+ boards supports HT 3.0. so u will see a performance hit using the 9850 on a am2 board. as for the core speeds it doesn't add up like that.. all 4 cores run at 2.5ghz but doesn't add together..
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Well under some condition you can add them up.
What would multitask better maxed out a 10Ghz single core or a 2.5Ghz quad
There would be more switching on the single core.
 
Agreed, I just can't see how you can. Each core runs independant of each other. I agree that performance could well be comparable to a single core of said multiplied frequency but you can't actually call it one. I wouldn't call two skinny people removing two bags of food out of a car at a time a single fat person removing four bags of food at a time for example.
 
Mul said:
I presume that's 2.8GHz per core. Although 4 x 2.8GHz cores = 11.2GHz CPU like two car's next to each other at 70mph being a single car at 140mph would be great for apps that can't make good use of multiple cores. :p

Although on a more serious note, was your M2N SLI that failed 125W CPU compliant? Might explain it failing perhaps.
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nah a gigabyte 790 ds4 failed, and i hardly use all four cores, so should be ok until a decent asus am2+ board comes out,
 
gareth170 said:
how can you add them together?
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Ok let me repeat my self but using different wording.

I SAID multi tasking not single tasking as a single core at 10GHz on a single task single threaded would be faster than a quad 2.5Ghz single task single threaded.

4 tasks on a Quad at 2.5Ghz maxxed out all cores takes 10 minutes to compleat. The needed equivalent in Ghz single core of what speed to do the same in 10 minutes to compleat?
 
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Mul said:
Agreed, I just can't see how you can. Each core runs independant of each other. I agree that performance could well be comparable to a single core of said multiplied frequency but you can't actually call it one. I wouldn't call two skinny people removing two bags of food out of a car at a time a single fat person removing four bags of food at a time for example.
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I would never call a 2.5 quad 10Ghz single CPU but it may perform just as good or better under some circumstances like Multi tasking & multi threaded.
 
regardless of this, its a bloody quick processor. only problem ive found is in crysis once the world goes "snowy" it stutters and ive gotta reduce to lower graphics. got a bfg 9600gt and 4 gigs of ganged ram so i dunno what the problem is , does crysis multi core?
 
jessjess said:
does crysis multi core?
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no. but tbh ive had no problems playing crysis..
jessjess said:
4 gigs of ganged ram
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run it as unganged.. it'll use the x2 64 bit channels in the cpu's memory controller. which is better performance.

this is whats mine on:
Bus Type Unganged Dual DDR2 SDRAM
Bus Width 128-bit
DRAM:FSB Ratio 16:6
Real Clock 533 MHz (DDR)
Effective Clock 1067 MHz
Bandwidth 17067 MB/s
 
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Final8y said:
Ok let me repeat my self but using different wording.

I SAID multi tasking not single tasking as a single core at 10GHz on a single task single threaded would be faster than a quad 2.5Ghz single task single threaded.

4 tasks on a Quad at 2.5Ghz maxxed out all cores takes 10 minutes to compleat. The needed equivalent in Ghz single core of what speed to do the same in 10 minutes to compleat?
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now i get what your saying..

tbh it would difficult to find out because theres no 5-10ghz single core processors out. :D
 
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