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AMD FX-9000 - FX-8770 CPU's.

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I'm interested to see how the motherboard VRM's will be cooled, short of some impressive engineering I suspect that throttling under heavy workloads (like Prime95) will become a normal working feature.
 
So...basically what AMD has done to FX9000 coming from the FX8000 is a bit like what Nvidia done with the GTX770 from the GTX680- same chip, higher TDP and higher stock clock, and leaving the consumer with little to none overclocking headroom left? :p
 
Between these and the new haswell, Intel and amd have thrown down the gauntlet to CPU cooling companys.

I lol'd

These CPUs are all speed binned chips with a multiplier increase as you all know and stock bus. Getting 5GHz on just multiplier increase and on a voltage reasonable enough that they can sell it with this speed being stock, i think people would be surprised at just how much higher you could get this chip if you were to play with the bus speed and multiplier (and if you had some decent custom water cooling, bump the voltage up a bit more). I'm not saying 5.5GHz+ would be acheivable, but even getting 5.2 or 5.3 would be an accomplishment. For the price they will probably be selling these at though, you might as well go Haswell, though i would definitely be interested to see what people will get to with custom cooling, when playing with the clock settings.
 
That's a lovely board pictured above. That one sneaky PCI slot though... Grr... :p

I think AMD are barking up the wrong tree with these 5GHz FX CPU's. The TDP and power draw figures are fantastically ridiculous. You would need to spend more on better cooling and a more powerful PSU before you get anywhere, which would eliminate any savings over an Intel based setup.

Not fanboying here, I have an AMD rig and an AMD laptop. My main PC just happens to be Intel/NVIDIA.
 
I should have expected this as I have recently upgraded to an fx8350:rolleyes:

Along with the new A10 I hope AMD are going to regain ground they have lost to Intel in recent times .....:D
 
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