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FX83## owners whats your CPU revition?

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I got this one directly from AMD in Austin Texas, it has a different design on the box to to previous ones i have had for other builds.

Some i'm wondering if its a different revision. (OR-C0)

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Thanks JOSH86.

This thing beats the crap out of my P-II x6 clock for clock in games. leaves it on the floor in a bloody mess whimpering.

hhmmmm? apparently thats not supposed to happen.
 
humbug said:
Thanks JOSH86.

This thing beats the crap out of my P-II x6 clock for clock in games. leaves it on the floor in a bloody mess whimpering.

hhmmmm? apparently thats not supposed to happen.
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What game(s)? Thuban (Like the entire Phenom II gen) had dire instruction sets (You know, lacking SSSE3(No typo)/SSE4, yet these were available on WOLFDALE!, which made emulation worse than it should have been), PD's far, far more instruction set packed (In fact, as far as instruction sets go, it has some more advanced than Sandy). So, thing that utilise these instruction sets (Watch_Dogs springs to mind) the PD's ahead, hence why I'd never buy a Phenom II set up these days, I've got another FX6300 build to do when my mate's back from China, and I've probably got another from my brothers friend to do.

Take AVX, you can get something that utilises AVX correctly, to make a socket 1150 i7 do a number on the 1366 Gulftown, and I'm pretty sure Piledriver in the same situation does a number on Gulftown too.

That's assuming you're down for actual discussion, otherwise just fill in my post with "rabble rabble rabble".
 
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What game(s)? Thuban (Like the entire Phenom II gen) had dire instruction sets (You know, lacking SSSE3(No typo)/SSE4, yet these were available on WOLFDALE!, which made emulation worse than it should have been), PD's far, far more instruction set packed (In fact, as far as instruction sets go, it has some more advanced than Sandy). So, thing that utilise these instruction sets (Watch_Dogs springs to mind) the PD's ahead, hence why I'd never buy a Phenom II set up these days, I've got another FX6300 build to do when my mate's back from China, and I've probably got another from my brothers friend to do.

Take AVX, you can get something that utilises AVX correctly, to make a socket 1150 i7 do a number on the 1366 Gulftown, and I'm pretty sure Piledriver in the same situation does a number on Gulftown too.

That's assuming you're down for actual discussion, otherwise just fill in my post with "rabble rabble rabble".
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Grid2. BF4..ecte.

I'm going to make a comparison thread in coming days.
 
I have an early one with the original logo. It's been said that the later ones are improved and are better clockers. I'm not sure what the basis of this is though and whether it's actually been tested.
 
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I ran some before and after benches going from a 960t x6 unlocked to the fx. I'll Dig those up and post those aswell if anyone's interested.
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Yeah, that would be great. when i make the thread you can add that to it, or i could add it the the OP and credit the work to you
 
I'd be interested pandem0nium. Was going to give my brother my 1100T when I upgrade and he's into gaming currently using an Athlon II x4 640. Maybe he'd be better off getting an FX or DC.
 
Humbug, you're probably using mantle right?

I ran out of time to finish my project which is in my signature, I will get back to it, back in dec mantle wasn't around then the games I compared were bf3, fc3, tomb raider, and a few more, I used my x4 b55 and an fx8320 and my 2600k with a 7950. I didn't see great performance from the fx8 vs the phII. I have posted comparisons around and i'd like to provide data for you in this thread. My observations seemed to prove that the fx8 needed far higher clocks than phII 2, however I didn't try enough games of old and new, so now I've moved house and finished my exams I'll have some more time to finish where I left off. I think my fx8 is same revision, I bought it new in Dec 13, it doesn't,t require much voltage to clock to 4.8ghz
 
It depends though. In SC2(the original) clock for clock performance is around the same:
http://forums.anandtech.com/showpost.php?p=34718546&postcount=4

That is against a heavily overclocked Phenom II X4 with a huge CPU-NB overclock.An FX6300 running at stock an an 890GX motherboard matched it(3.8GHZ against upto 3.9GHZ).

In the latest expansion GameGPU showed that it was faster:

http://gamegpu.ru/images/stories/Test_GPU/strategy/StarCraft II Heart of the Swarm/test/sc2 proz.png

Now,Intel is much faster for that game,but even if the Phenom II X4 955BE at 3.2GHZ and the FX4300 is at max Turbo frequency(4GHZ),the FX is faster clock for clock.

SC2 really only uses three threads.

Even something like WoW which really only uses two threads,appears to be clock for clock on par,or much faster on the FX CPUs now.

All these games thread lightly,so don't give the FX series CPUs an unfair advantage.
 
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Since Phenom II's IPC improves as the CPU NB does, a stock comparison is always going to show the Phenom II in a worse light, I mean it's 2GHZ stock, I ran one at 3.3GHZ!. Like I say, I had a 4.375GHZ Thuban with a 3.3GHZ CPU NB, so yeah, there's probably only a handful of games where a PD could ever out muscle the AMD chip I had, and even less where it'd be ahead clock for clock.

Obviously, my AMD chip was far, far from the norm. But 2.8GHZ-3GHZ CPU NB is the norm overclocked, so gameGPU's results would change as the Phenom II got even faster.

For WoW, it had a DX11 patch, unsurprisingly the FX probably saw a gain, where perhaps the Thuban didn't.
 
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Since Phenom II's IPC improves as the CPU NB does, a stock comparison is always going to show the Phenom II in a worse light, I mean it's 2GHZ stock, I ran one at 3.3GHZ!. Like I say, I had a 4.375GHZ Thuban with a 3.3GHZ CPU NB, so yeah, there's probably only a handful of games where a PD could ever out muscle the AMD chip I had, and even less where it'd be ahead clock for clock.

Obviously, my AMD chip was far, far from the norm. But 2.8GHZ-3GHZ CPU NB is the norm overclocked, so gameGPU's results would change as the Phenom II got even faster.

For WoW, it had a DX11 patch, unsurprisingly the FX probably saw a gain, where perhaps the Thuban didn't.
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Yet,how many people have a 4.4GHZ Phenom II X6 and a 3.3GHZ NB one?? There might be people with 5.3GHZ FX8350 CPUs out there for example.

Yet a Phenom II X4 at 3.8GHZ with a 2.6GHZ NB,couldn't beat a FX6300 in SC2. So I don't agree with you regarding SC2 and since the Phenom II X6 shared its L3 cache among six cores,actually slightly dropped single threaded IPC over a Phenom II X6.

The same goes with SC2 HoTS.

Its faster.
 
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