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piledriver - Official AMD FX4300,FX6300 and FX8350 review thread

Well, system is built now. The Silver Arrow is just slightly too big for my Shinobi, will have to get one of those TY-143's currently on offer instead of the TY-150 fan...or get busy with a dremel. Also adjusting myself to Windows 8 which is taking a bit of getting used to. Will start clocking it at some time this weekend.
 
Just took delivery of my 8350, thanks OcUK and DPD, failed hard in that I paid for Saturday delivery and forgot to purchase some thermal paste... :mad:

I'd use the stock cooler but I remember them being annoyingly loud.
 
I must say these thermalright's are whisper quiet. Case volume is massively improved from my old rig, and this is with the side off. Only thing I can hear is my OCZ Modstream 500W power supply. Might get one of the Corsair GS800's that turn the fan off at low loads soon.
 
The main issue I have is the speed of the memory when overclocking. I had thought that Patriot Viper 3 2133MHz would run at the rated speed and timings 9-9-9-24. No such luck. I slackened the timings to 11-11-11-27 1T and it still would not run. I increased the voltage by 0.05 to 1.55V and it boots but with awesome lag. So back to DDR-3 1600MHz but with a 220 bus clock giving 1760MHz and 4.4GHz on the CPU. It may be the CPU or it may be the memory. Hopefully the latter. I will keep the memory at this ratio and just increase the CPU frequency from here.
 
Currently stress testing 4.8ghz. Needs lots more voltage though, I don't think I have a very good chip;

FSB - 267
Multi - 18
CPUvcore - 1.55v load, 1.52v idle
CPU LLC - Ultra High
CPU current - 100%
Spread spectrum - off
CPU/NB LLC - Regular
CPU/NB Current - 100%
Power Phase control - Optimized
DRAM current - 120%
DRAM Power Phase control - Optimized
CPU/NB - 1.337v
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 - 893MHz
DRAM timings - 10-10-10-28
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I struggled for a while trying to get it anywhere near stable and it was a boost to the CPU/NB voltage that helped a lot.

I've also got two 60mm fans to the top of the VRM heatsink now, and with a high speed 120mm fan in the case lid (only for stress testing) all temps are under 55c. So far it seems to be OCCT and IBT stable, but still not in Prime. That's becoming the bane of my life tbh! :p
 
I am holding prime stable at 4615MHz (20 x 230) at 1.4V, 1.392 in CPU-Z, but the CPU temp is at 65C, cores are at 53-54C fluctuating. This may be the limit for the TRUE cooler as it seems to be only the CPU heating, the motherboard stays below 30C. Unfortunately I do not have the temp readings you do on your board wolvers. The ram is at 1840MHz.

Would be nice to go higher but I think I will evaluate cooling before I go further.

andy.
 
cant believe my mate just brought a new cpu and dropped it on floor bending all one corner of pins over :( hes gutted . hes gunna try bend em back later
 
~>Dg<~ said:
cant believe my mate just brought a new cpu and dropped it on floor bending all one corner of pins over :( hes gutted . hes gunna try bend em back later
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I haven't bought a new CPU in a few years but I thought they had the pibs on the motherboard now? Anyway, try using a credit card to line them back up.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
cant believe my mate just brought a new cpu and dropped it on floor bending all one corner of pins over :( hes gutted . hes gunna try bend em back later
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That is unfortunate, those pins are sketchy.

Mine in though :), idles at 27° but 5 minutes of prime raised it to 56° @ stock.

Time to overclock but what could I expect on air using a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 with two Noctua NF-P12? on push pull.
 
Elfmeister. said:
That is unfortunate, those pins are sketchy.

Mine in though :), idles at 27° but 5 minutes of prime raised it to 56° @ stock.

Time to overclock but what could I expect on air using a CoolerMaster Hyper 212 with two Noctua NF-P12? on push pull.
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see my post above for 8350 on push pull thermalright, wolvers posted some settings a couple of pages back which helped.
 
Pretty happy with stability at 4.8ghz now, ran OCCT for an hour no problems. Cranked the RAM up to 1071MHz too. :) Got my best Cinebench score so far of 8.31 too so pretty happy.

Switched back to my quieter 24/7 cooling set up now and doing some encoding to see how temps go. If it's within decent limits doing that I'll stick with it for 24/7 use as that's the most CPU intensive thing it'll do. I guess I should do some intensive gaming to double check temps with that too seen as the GPU is in the same loop.
 
nkata said:
I am holding prime stable at 4615MHz (20 x 230) at 1.4V, 1.392 in CPU-Z, but the CPU temp is at 65C, cores are at 53-54C fluctuating. This may be the limit for the TRUE cooler as it seems to be only the CPU heating, the motherboard stays below 30C. Unfortunately I do not have the temp readings you do on your board wolvers. The ram is at 1840MHz.

Would be nice to go higher but I think I will evaluate cooling before I go further.

andy.
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You can give it a little voltage bump and can still manage a few more degrees on the cores. I've got 4.5 Prime stable on a preliminary overclock. Core temps averaging 52C. Will see what more I can do tomorrow. Think my new intake fans will help next week too to drop temps a bit.
 
blowa fuse said:
Anybody got any power consumption readings before and after overclock please
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System power consumption at the PSU plug (ie everything in the case). Seasonic x650 gold

At 4.6GHz prime 8 cores - 350W
At idle 1.6Ghz - 140W
Gaming model (HD6950 2Gb) - 4 cores at 4.6Ghz prime and heaven 2.5 benchmarking - 420W

Not tested at stock

EDIT

My previous testing on a 1090T in same rig.

Power at idle or browsing 130-140W
Power at 3.82GHz prime on six cores 280-290W
Power at 3.82GHz prime on six cores plus Heaven 2.5 benchmarking gives 410-420W

Therefore idle is much the same, full prime on eight cores at 4.6 is only 50-70W more than 6 cores at 3.8. Gaming model is roughly the same although I have used 4 cores at 4.6 on the PD and 6 cores at 3.8 on the 1090T. It can be seen that with fairly modest systems and graphics, a huge PSU is not necessary to cope with power demands.
 
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