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Llano

sarge78 said:
CPU and GPU clock are all based on the PCI-Express frequency, faster memory plays a bigger role.
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I know but I want to see the effect of overclocking the GPU only together with faster RAM.

The HD5570 GDDR3 runs the GPU at 650MHZ whereas the HD6550D GPU runs at 600MHZ. It would be interesting to see how the HD6550D can perform at 700MHZ and whether it can match or exceed an HD5570 GDDR3.
 
4.7Ghz :O with an Arctic cooler 7 pro?

more info on the cpu please!, is that as much as you can get out of it?

also ram, speeds and timings please :)

hmmm 2nd thoughts, is it possible to disable the onboard gpu, say for when your using a proper card?
 
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The remarkable thing is, this is more powerful than a X-Box 360 or PS3. I bet it will play games like GRID smoother at 720p than those consoles, even with the inefficient port taken into account.

How quickly technology keeps moving!

This is AMD's success - APU's and some nice GPU's. They need to push home their advantage before Intel catch up!
 
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Updated the BIOS on a A75M-UD2H and now can push the multiplier up also on a A8 3800
 
Who cares about stability in programs no one actually uses.

Run super pi at stock, and then again at max overclock, if it doesn't improve in speed, the overclock isn't working. Super pi, whatever you want really. Gaming benchmarks aren't necessarily going to show a real difference.

Also you'll want to watch cpu'z if possible as you're running something, see if it peaks at max overclock and then quickly drops to a lower clock to keep TDP in check. I know bulldozer does this but Llano isn't quite as up to date on power features so it might not

But yeah, TDP's are a joke, not really sure why we're limited at circa 100-125W on desktop, hell desktop barely needs a limit, as long as idle power is in check and you can buy low power versions if you really want them, its daft, performance over TDP thanks.

Sure a Bulldozer uses silly power overclocked, but so does a 480gtx, a 2600k uses a good 100-150W over the TDP limit when overclocked fully as well. I'm sure a Llano's tdp at a decent overclock is pretty mental.

Anyway the whole and only reason Llano is so low clocked to start off with, is TDP and having to be within some arbitrary limit that matters to no one.
 
Drunken, problem with Bulldozer though is the power consumption scales badly with frequency, increase frequency and wattage goes up by a stupid amount, more like an exponential increase in wattage as frequency increases, not a good trend to be fair, one I am hoping they sort out with the next revision. for example increasing the frequency to around 4600MHZ seems to almost double the power consumption, which isn't right and shouldn't be happening, not for an architecture that is designed to achieve high clock speeds.

on another note though, when you lower the V-core on Bulldozer down to ~1.1V it runs stable at stock speeds apparently and consumes less wattage than a default (default voltage and clock speed) Phenom II 970 even under load, which is quite impressive for a quad-module processor if you ask me. :) so when running at below stock voltage the processor isn't at all too bad in the performance per watt but at current prices its not great price/performance. ;)
 
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