Will this work, and be worth it?

OliverDavis · 2 Nov 2012 at 16:23

Or YOUR BASKET
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £149.99
1 x Gigabyte 970A-DS3 AMD 970A (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard ** FREE NEXUIZ GAME ** £55.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £29.99
Total : £247.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

AS_Platinum · 2 Nov 2012 at 16:29

Thanks Oliver, however I've ordered the I5 allready with the Z77X-D3H mobo as I may go x-fire again at a later date.

Should get the kit tommorow, so thats my day planed out!

Fire_fly · 2 Nov 2012 at 16:31

Have fun with it, and post a few pics up for us plz.

AS_Platinum · 2 Nov 2012 at 17:40

I shall. Hope its a decent upgrade, either way the Q6600 will be replacing the E1200 in my WHS. And the 8gig Kingston ram will be going into the Media centre in the lounge.

Edit: ohh and putting Win 8 on both machines too.

areksnumbr1sxylady · 2 Nov 2012 at 21:11

AMD 8350 is a good choice if you split gaming + programming encoding ect...

S.T.F.U · 2 Nov 2012 at 21:41

I myself upgraded from a Q6600 to a i5 3570k. The performance is brilliant, I haven't come a cross a game yet that it struggles with.

AS_Platinum · 4 Nov 2012 at 18:00

Just an update. DPD managed to loose my parcel in Southampton. I have re-arranged delivery with 5UB for Monday to an alternative address and refunded postage, he was ever so pleasant, however the mrs will now see said items.

Worthy of a discount guys???

stulid · 4 Nov 2012 at 18:04

You should get Haribo in the delivery, that should keep her happy.

AS_Platinum · 4 Nov 2012 at 18:20

Thats a good point, she does like it when I get OCuK deliveries as they contain Haribo's

OliverDavis · 5 Nov 2012 at 09:43

AS_Platinum said:
Just an update. DPD managed to loose my parcel in Southampton. I have re-arranged delivery with 5UB for Monday to an alternative address and refunded postage, he was ever so pleasant, however the mrs will now see said items.

Worthy of a discount guys???

You should have free delivery anyway with your post count + time as member

AS_Platinum · 5 Nov 2012 at 16:37

So far so good

Three meesly haribos ;(

Ohh and sorry, rubbish phone camera!

Idleman · 5 Nov 2012 at 17:17

OliverDavis said:
You should have free delivery anyway with your post count + time as member

I thought you still had to pay for Saturday delivery.

AS_Platinum · 5 Nov 2012 at 19:58

Idleman said:
I thought you still had to pay for Saturday delivery.

Not when it dosn't turn up you don't

AS_Platinum · 5 Nov 2012 at 21:21

So all has gone well so far. However, using the stock HSF and tim, i'm seeing core 0 @ 26c, core 1 @ 29c, core 2 @ 33c, and core 3 @ 38c.

I bleeding hope it's just a tim issue. But didn't Intel use crappy tim on the underside of the heatspreader?
I don't really want to have to pop the heatspreader off!!

stulid · 5 Nov 2012 at 21:23

I expect to see a slight variance between the four cores, but 38c is a bit odd.

AS_Platinum · 5 Nov 2012 at 21:26

Going to plonk some AS5 probably tommorow now. See how we get on. (thats if I can find my stash!)

Fire_fly · 5 Nov 2012 at 21:33

How old is your stash?

The stuff may have gone off.

AS_Platinum · 6 Nov 2012 at 18:25

Fire_fly said:
How old is your stash?

The stuff may have gone off.

It's quite old, however I re-timmed my Q6600 not so long ago and it temps were at 55c load.

Anyway Temps are still slightly off. As follows;

core 0 20c, core 1 25, core 2 27c, core 3 32c.

Fire_fly · 6 Nov 2012 at 18:33

That is not too bad of a spread, although still a little larger than most.

What are your load temps?

They are the important ones.

Bacon? · 6 Nov 2012 at 18:35

Is that using HW Monitor?

Im using RealTemp and HW Monitor and my Ivy i5 not overclocked using Stulid's paste is idling at 30 degrees roughly. Though I cant see cores 3 and 4 as they dont show up

EDIT:

Got it to work in RealTemp. 33 degrees on all cores max at 5% CPU usage.