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Trinity crossfire

slayer2005

slayer2005

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Just sold my phenom 955 rig.
Now just bought a trinty as wana build a new rig mainly to see how far i can OC it. Think im going to add some water cooling to.
Now what cheap card can i add to the system to bump the onboard graphics up.
Can i get anywere near my old 560ti performance with a cheap card in crossfire?
:)
 
slayer2005 said:
Is it really that much of a side step if u can get it stable at 5ghz tho?
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On stock speeds they seem about equal: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/675?vs=88

I wouldn't imagine it would be worth the money even if both were overclocked. It will probably be best if you bought an i5 with a discrete GPU, the onboard GPU on Trinity with a low end discrete can't match a true high end discrete card, not to mention it will suffer the same problems multi GPU setups does, such as games not being optimized to use more than one GPU.
 
slayer2005 said:
Is it really that much of a side step if u can get it stable at 5ghz tho?
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Except that it won't?

Anandtech has the OC up to 4.4GHz and that already need nearly 1.5V on the vcore:
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6347/amd-a10-5800k-a8-5600k-review-trinity-on-the-desktop-part-2/7
"With a stock cooler and not a ton of additional voltage, it looks like there's another 5 - 15% depending on whether you're comparing base clocks or max turbo clocks. With an extra 0.125V (above the 1.45V standard core voltage setting) I was able to hit 4.4GHz on the A10-5800K. I could boot into Windows at 4.5GHz however the system wasn't stable. Although I could post at 4.6GHz, Windows was highly unstable at that frequency. With more exotic cooling I do believe I could probably make 4.5 work on the A10-5800K."
 
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I dont want a i5 tho,price being the main reason.
So i guess another cheap 955 and a decent card.
Could get a decent card and the trinity but then what would be the point.
Can i have opinions on what you would go for cpu wise and gpu wise but not having the i5 in the option please guys. Also i am going to water cool it,ok you might say what is the point but mainly it will be just for fun.

Cheers
 
I would not take those reviewers overclocking result as gospel, they don't try to hard and they don't pretend to. one of these reviews they got it to 4.6Ghz only to find it was jumping to 5Ghz, they had to ask AMD why, turns out they has the Turbo core switched on, nOObs... lol

@ slayer2005, it's a side step, however it is a new toy to play with :)

I would be intrested to see what overclocking results a user can get out of it.
 
slayer2005 said:
I dont want a i5 tho,price being the main reason.
So i guess another cheap 955 and a decent card.
Could get a decent card and the trinity but then what would be the point.
Can i have opinions on what you would go for cpu wise and gpu wise but not having the i5 in the option please guys. Also i am going to water cool it,ok you might say what is the point but mainly it will be just for fun.
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Personally I would go for the Pentium G2120 3.1GHz (basically a IvyBridge i3 without HT) for around £70, and then something like a 7850 and 7870/GTX660, and a decent entry level Z77 board (around £80). And then keep saving up money and should there be a need for more CPU grunt in some of the games in the future, then I would just drop a Sandy/Ivy i5 (new or 2nd hand) onto the board (provided if I had the money).

But to be honest I find it weird that you would rather spend money on water blocks than actually spending it on getting a i5 CPU when money is tight :P
 
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I'd just get an i5 and skip the watercooling.
Compromising on performance for watercooling isn't in anyway logical, and I have a custom WC loop.
 
It's not so much a downgrade, but rather a very minor upgrade. It's an APU, it's not meant for high end gaming.

What you've done is simply a waste of money, if the performance of the Trinity is fine for you, then you should have gone Vishera when it arrives.
 
Martini1991 said:
It's not so much a downgrade, but rather a very minor upgrade. It's an APU, it's not meant for high end gaming.

What you've done is simply a waste of money, if the performance of the Trinity is fine for you, then you should have gone Vishera when it arrives.
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Well my phenom and gtx560 was fine for me so surley a step up gpu Nd the minor add on of the trinity is ok for me?
 
slayer2005 said:
Well my phenom and gtx560 was fine for me so surley a step up gpu Nd the minor add on of the trinity is ok for me?
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What GPU are you putting with the Trinity?
And if the previous set up was fine, this will be no worse, but it's a pointless upgrade.
It'd be like selling a full 2500k set up and getting a Z77 and Ivybridge set up (Pointless, bar the PCI-E 3.0 which doesn't do much yet)
 
Martini1991 said:
It's not so much a downgrade, but rather a very minor upgrade. It's an APU, it's not meant for high end gaming.

What you've done is simply a waste of money, if the performance of the Trinity is fine for you, then you should have gone Vishera when it arrives.
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He is right, you should have waited to see what the Vishera Chips are like.

You will get higher CPU performance for probably the same money, also, what motherboard did you have? if you had an AM3+ Vishera would have dropped right onto it.
 
Interesting to see how far you can overclock this. With some decent cooling these look like they should get to around 4.5-7GHz. Probably not a worthwhile upgrade from your old rig but money aside at least its something new to play and tinker with. Enjoy.
 
shadow_boxer said:
Interesting to see how far you can overclock this. With some decent cooling these look like they should get to around 4.5-7GHz. Probably not a worthwhile upgrade from your old rig but money aside at least its something new to play and tinker with. Enjoy.
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+1, i want to see someone who knows what they are doing to spend some time with it on a £30 cooler like mine, i would not be at all surprised if they could get around the 5Ghz mark out of it.

I don't fancy spending £150 to do it myself just for that!
 
With the 5GHZ thing, people had the same hype about Sandy Bridge, most would do about 4.6-4.8GHZ (Still respectable clocks, and what I'd expect Trinity to be at too)

Still a respectable clock.

Obviously, you're going to get the exceptional chip that'll do 5GHZ with ease, and then the rarer few which do higher.
 
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