Amd zambezi fx8150, 8core with be quiet shadow rock topflowmsi geforce gtx 660tigxlite 700w cooler master psuasus m5a78lmusb3. Amd fx cpus overclock well if you know the right settings, and the crosshair v formula motherboard is rog s 5th gen amd hardware, so the team behind it has plenty of experience under their belts. After my wife asked me several times to upgrade her pc from win7 to win10 i managed to do it this week. Stay on the path to glory with an amd fx processor in your system. Amd bulldozer fx8150 vs intel core i5 2500k 8core gaming benchmarks linus tech tips duration.
Amds fx8150 is the first processor weve seen that uses the new bulldozer core the first allnew amd core since 2007s k10. Amd fx8150 bulldozer 2600mhz ddr ram overclocking not unlike llano, we hear good things about memory overclocking on the bulldozer platform. Amd supplies a software cd with a relatively simple utility that monitors the. Amd overdrive software tuning controls to push performance to the limits and monitors system stability when overclocking. The bottom line overclocking fx8150 on air during its press briefing in austin, amds architects suggested that bulldozer was designed to. Overclocking the fx8150 was a fairly easy job, we just had to raise the multiplier from 21x to 23x 200 mhz bclk with a voltage adjustment of 1. I just applied 2 year old arctic silver 5 paste to it a few days ago the paste. The former processor was tested on asus sabertooth 990fx motherboard with 4gb dualchannel crucial ballistixpc314900 ddr31866 memory, and msi r6670 1gb gddr5 ati radeon. An overclocking community amd amd cpus constant freezing oc. Amd is just so much cheaper than intel, and as a result, you get more processor for your money. Our first look at overclocking, we used amd overdrive to see if. You simply increase the cpu multiplier and cpu core voltage as far as you can whilst keeping the cpu temperatures in check.
This topoftherange model has a whopping eight cores running at 3. Fx series desktop processors for gamers and creators amd. As supplementary reading, we strongly recommend you reading a very good article titled the crosshair v formula oveclocking bios guide, written by raja. Today amd is launching its new fx processor lineup comprised of the flagship fx8150 along with the fx8120, fx6100 and fx4170 processors. Sapphire vaporx r9 280x 3gb gddr5 trix oc with boost uefi. I never overclocked anything, so i am hoping to find a simple and save way of overclocking it. I was using all 8 cores but after updating my video drivers which includes amd drivers for the mb to version 16. Written by michael larabel in processors on 22 november.
World records achieved by overclocking a amd fx 8150 processor. Overclocking the fx8150 is very much like overclocking a phenom ii processor, despite the different architecture. Comparing the 1100t and fx8150 shows that the newer fx8150 has roughly the same single and dual core speed but, thanks to its extra two cores, pulled ahead of its predecessor. Previously know as zambezi with its bulldozer cores, today the fx series is released. Below is a partial set of amd fx8150 and intel core i53570k benchmarks from our cpu benchmark database. Regardless of the ipc story, were still expecting solid overclocking headroom. Testing amds latest contender to the throne, we will run the fx8150 and its comparison products through occs test suite of benchmarks. When overclocked, the fx8150 was on par with the overclocked core i52500k and core i7920 in wprime, a poor result considering amds claims that its an. Overclocking fx8150 on air during its press briefing in austin, amd s architects suggested that bulldozer was designed to hold ipc steady and facilitate significantly higher clock rates. Amd says it will begin by bundling this cooler with the amd fx cpus in. It was tested further after this video and found to be stable for 24 hours of prime 95 at 4. All fx cpus have unlocked multipliers, so going for a max oc is quite straightforward. At 1600 mts, the fx8150 is able to match intels sandy bridge.
Cpu amd amd ryzen master official overclocking guide software amd fx official performance tuning guide amd guide bulldozer and piledriver. Below is a partial set of amd fx8150 and intel core i73770k benchmarks from our cpu benchmark database. Click on view more to see the complete hall of fame. It will be amd s most highend and complicated to fab processor. Using an am3 890fx chipset motherboard to overclock the o. Amd fx 8150 overclocking on an asus 890fx am3 motherboard. Im running windows 10 pro 64 bit, 16gb of ram on an asus sabretooth 990fx motherboard and an amd fx 8150 black edition 8 core cpu. The fx8150 is the first processor weve seen thats based on the bulldozer cpu architecture, and its the daddy of the new lineup with a nominal frequency of. Amd fx overclocking guide for 2019 maximum performance oc duration. The xeon e31280 which has core i7 2700k clock speeds is ranked below core i7 2600 which is supposedly slower, while core i7 970 6cores is ranked below core i7 2600k. As you can see, the clock speeds involved arent stratospheric, but the fx8150s peak of 4.
A curious look at eight core server cpu performance from intel xeon haswell to amd epyc rome. The fx8150 does very well here, but so does the phenom ii x6 1100t. Based upon the results of others, i am sure the eightcore processor could still have been pushed much further, but as said, overclocking is not one of the. The fx8150 was released in october 2011 and at that time it superseded the phenom 1100t. The amd fx8150 black edition features a base frequency of 3. We will be taking a look at how this cpu does from a thermal standpoint as well as how it performs compared to the similarly priced intel core i5 2500k. Short video how to overclock your fx8150 processor.
We compare the specs of the amd fx 8150 to see how it stacks up against its competitors including the amd fx 8350, amd fx 6300 and amd fx 8300. I have a amd fx 8150 in a hp envy i brought back in 2012 i am running it at 3. Amd fx cpus overclock well if you know the right settings, and the crosshair v formula motherboard is rogs 5th gen amd hardware, so the team behind it has plenty of experience under their belts. Overclocking the fx8150 is a piece of cake, thanks to the unlocked multiplier, massive overclocking features in the asus rog crosshair v formula, and platform consistency from amd. If you want to see how performance scales with thread. With the amd fx8150 and asus crosshair v formula motherboard, i had no problems hitting 4. Amd fx8150 vs intel i72600k vs intel i7990x vs intel core i32120 vs amd phenom ii x4 980 be vs phenom ii x6 1100t vs a83850, gaming performance, overclocking benchmarks score fps, fx8150 box opening, box containing, comparison, microarchitechture, multicore, first eightcore, guiness world record eightcore at 8. It was tested further after this video and found to be stable for 24 hours of. Maybe not the topend eightcore fx8150, but the great value and overclocking capabilities of the sixcore fx6200 made it a tantalising prospect for anyone on a budget looking to put together a. The stock limit is 3,5 ghz, but i am hoping to get it around 4,0 ghz. Both are faster than intels 2500k, but not quite as good as the 2600k. The amd fx8150 is the earliest eight core variant in amds flagship fx series. How do i enable all 8 core on a fx 8150 cpu community amd.
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