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

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Heavily modded and @1440p.



'Now' the truth has been spoken. ;)

And for the record, I have no need to justify buying a PD to anyone thank you very much. I know exactly what it is, and what it can and can't do. Any numpty can look at gaming bar graphs in reviews then go out and buy the one that comes top, regardless of the cost and whether it makes any discernable difference to your experience.
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Yes.

Knowing what CPU actually makes a difference to your gaming experience and then spending the difference on a better GPU.
Thats the clever bit in all this.

Anyone can look at a benchmark and see a more expensive CPU get 10 / 20 FPS more and think they can't do without it.
Thats is advertising for numpties.
 
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wolvers said:
Anyway, on a more Piledriver orientated subject, Handbrake is my new stress test. :p An OC that looked stable in OCCT and IBT, died on it's arse after about 30 secs in Handbrake at high output settings. It definitely stresses the cores more. Still, after a little bump in vcore, it's currently looking OK after 90mins it's levelled out with 60C on cores and socket temps. :)
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Told you before you need to use Prime95, OCCT is not that good and IBT doesn't seem to be optimised for AMD. Hand brake is not a stress test at all it's just an application that uses all the cores and apparently caused your unstable (non Prime95 tested ;)) overclock to fail.

What's the highest speed you can run Prime95 Large FFT's at? if you're stable in that without any throttling of any kind then nothing else will crash (software bugs aside).
 
Prime95 isn't optimised for the latest AMDs either I don't think. If you check the change log it's been optimised for SB/IB but not BD/PD. Besides, I've had the same problem with Prime95 where it's stable in that, but not in OCCT or IBT so really you need to do some running with them all. They all seem to stress different parts of the system to different levels. For example, I find that IBT on maximum will find dodgy RAM settings quickly.

Handbrake is definitely a good stress test too, well it is with the settings that I use and with the right input file. It gets the cores hotter than any of those stress testing apps, I suspect most people have it on settings that are much less stressful.
 
Why would you get a GPU of that calibre to go half assed on the CPU?
I'm not saying the FX83 is bad, it's just not going to yield the same results with that GPU as an Intel set up would, if you didn't care about results you wouldn't have put down almost 400 quid on a 7970.
Probably best to use another image host as well, Imageshack is urgh.

EDIT : Because that is a pretty epic GPU, I'd considered one myself.
 
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Just wanted a amd system have had intel just wanted a change. Have had sandybridge and ivybridge cpus but I prefer the 8350fx out of all of them. System just seems faster.
Got the asus 7970 matrix for free didn't cost me a thing.

Gotta admit I had a 7970 lighting with my old 3770k and the 8350fx keeps up in results so it cant be that bad lol.
 
One more question, I have 2 IceQ 7950's in CF.
From purely a performance perspective is there much difference between AMD and Intel in this regard? This question probably relates more to the chipset (AM3+ vs 1155) as opposed to the CPU so apologies for taking this off topic.
 
Chrisoldinho said:
One more question, I have 2 IceQ 7950's in CF.
From purely a performance perspective is there much difference between AMD and Intel in this regard? This question probably relates more to the chipset (AM3+ vs 1155) as opposed to the CPU so apologies for taking this off topic.
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Unfortunately the chipset difference isn't the performance issue, even though on a 3570k set up you'll be 8/8 it'll be the same bandwidth (Due to PCI-E 3.0), but you need the grunt of the CPU to push the cards, which the FX83 can't do quite as well.

bro306 said:
Just wanted a amd system have had intel just wanted a change. Have had sandybridge and ivybridge cpus but I prefer the 8350fx out of all of them. System just seems faster.
Got the asus 7970 matrix for free didn't cost me a thing.

Gotta admit I had a 7970 lighting with my old 3770k and the 8350fx keeps up in results so it cant be that bad lol.
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Where you stealing all this gear :p?
 
The Dirt score looks iffy, the Intel loses single but wins Crossfire? If it has the grunt for Crossfire, it more than has the grunt for the single.

The F1 Crossfire on both is lower than Single (Should be removed)

Apart from that, commendable performance on the games they've chosen.

EDIT : The threads locked anyway, arguing at each other.
 
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no the games mainly used in that benchmark are amd games :p

like many benchmarks so biased they might aswell just make it all up :D

look at majority of sites when they bench games . some of the games they use no one hardly plays !
 
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