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**LETS SEE YOUR PILEDRIVER OVERCLOCKS - LET ME START WITH 5GHz+!!**

Gibbo

Gibbo

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Hi there


Well AMD are marketing the Piledriver as one of their best overclocking CPU's yet, skeptical due to the relatively poor overclocking of Bulldozer and heat issues it had I was keen to try Piledriver.

AMD state 5GHz is possible with a good air cooler, I used their AMD cooler which is a Corsair H70/H80 equivalent with fans in push/pull mode.

Here is my results so far:-

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I am rather impressed, I don't think there is much more though to be honest, maybe 5.3GHz at a push, but 5GHz is certainly a possibility which is superb for an 8-core chip.

Be interesting to see if the 6-core and 4-core varients can hit 6GHz+ ?


So lets see your results. :)
 
compared to an i5, well thats pretty bad, even an i5 at only 4.3Ghz
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Edit*

Just gone digging through my old benchmarks folder for some Phenom II stuff and holy mother of god, I know it seems like i'm trolling, but i really am not :)

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I think if the chip was in any way stable it would have been shown.


Found an old Phenom screenie.
Seems AMD are going backwards

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Not sure if i want to destroy my 8320 just yet so i wont be using 1.66v
I have to buy my chips.
 
It's a shame that some modern programs still seem to use it, since it's really lazy coding. with SSE and FMA instructions you don't need x87 at all, since you can compensate with emulation for the remaining instructions required (not a problem for a modern CPU with 8 integer units and megabytes of cache).
 
Hehe don't think SuperPi is a good way to show that CPU off... I got ~12 second times with a Core 2 Duo E6600 every day stable back in the day and something like 9.6 second suicide shot when I'd done with it.
 
Guys, SupperPi is not support by AMD, you can't use it to measure its performance.

use CINEBENCH or something like that.

@ Gibbo, i think it probably is possible to run it at 5Ghz day to day on a good air cooler, it wont pass Prime-95, it will over heat, but nothing will stress the CPU like that anyway, so yeah.

But, 1.665v? is that safe for everyday use?
 
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