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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

This is starting to stress me out, is there any sort of list of motherboards that will at least post with a piledriver and allow a bios flash to a properly supported bios?

Seems mad that I'd have to try and source a older compatible processor just to flash :(
 
got my 8320 running at 4.4 ghz, 1.44 volts,stable

Anything above that seems to require 1.5 volts +

Motherboard : Gigabye 990xa-ud3

Anything above 4.4 seems to cause the voltage to drop down after running prime for a few seconds,not a clue what this is,some kind of throttling i suspect.

Ive turned off cool and quiet,Apm master mode,c1e support,thermal control etc.
 
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This is starting to stress me out, is there any sort of list of motherboards that will at least post with a piledriver and allow a bios flash to a properly supported bios?

Seems mad that I'd have to try and source a older compatible processor just to flash :(

If youre budget is ~£100, the M5A99X Evo is new stock and may be rev 2 which will support BD from first release and should support PD also. It does have the bios flashback which can update the bios without a CPU.

Ask in customer services forum if the board you want will support PD and if not can it be flashed. SPECIFY piledriver support when you order.

DSR 14 day customer satisfaction is there to help if you need to return but asking before you buy is best. Contact 5UB or other mod if you cannot get help elsewhere beforehand
 
is there anything special about "black editions" or are they all the same?

edit: Thanks nkata, I've managed to source a GA-990XA-UD3 for a reasonable price quite local to me. So If I need to I can always return it.
 
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Apparently 8350 is in stock now and I should get it tomorrow (EDIT dispatched), I also have 8Gb of Patriot 2133 to install. I like your method using FSB OC and will borrow your settings and hard work as a basis for mine. Where possible on the M5A99X of course.

Thanks, andy

You shouldn't need vcore like that for a 8350.

There's a typo though, apologies. Here's the correction.

FSB - 249
Multi - 18.5
CPUvcore - 1.500v load, 1.476v idle
CPU LLC - Ultra High
CPU current - 130%
Spread spectrum - off
CPU/NB LLC - Regular
CPU/NB Current - 120%
Power Phase control - Extreme
DRAM current - 120%
DRAM Power Phase control - Optimized
CPU/NB - 1.25v
DRAM - 1.49v
VDD PCIE - 1.1v
VDDR - 1.23v
NB - 1.15v
VDDA - 2.69v
SB - 1.1v
CnQ - on
C6 - on
DRAM freq - 999MHz
DRAM timings - 10-10-10-28

Those are not my final settings though, I want to work on reducing voltages where I can.
 
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We have come to expect this from OCUK.

To those who insist that chips should only be judged on price,
What price should that be ? Official RRP or OCUK.
 
Current cheapest available price.

OCUK seem to have the most available stock currently.

I started preparing for the 8350 last night, checking the max board speed which seems to be about 270MHz. have settled on 250MHz FSB currently with 2000MHz memory, 2500MHz HT and NB (using the 1090T at 4GHz). Still waiting on CPU delivered today.
 
Oh really? Well there you go then, OcUK current price for the 8350 is way too high. Unless you do loads of encoding.......or run lots of virtual machines........It reall is horses for course right now! :p
 
Cheapest I could find was NO COMPETITOR HINTING PLEASE

The 3570k has been cheaper at OCUK before.
The 8350 and 3570k are fine to compare against each other as they're pretty much the same price region in my honest opinion.

The 8320 does have the price advantage though.

And I'm sure someone agreed to this 1 core per module thing :p
 
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