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Blatant Intel ad in the middle of an AMD review.
What is the problem with some Intel owners???
What is the problem with some Intel owners???
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Nope, the graph is correct. I had dropped HT & CPU-NB clocks to push frequency as far as it would go without worrying about having to get them stable too. IIRC, they were < 2000 MHz in the 4.3GHz run, but were at 2400 MHz in the 4.0GHz run. Just goes to show how important HT & CPU-NB clocks really are to benching results!Nice write up. I would look at the pifast graphs though... It says the 4ghz 1075 got a 21.xx and then just below that it says a 4.3ghz 1075 got a 26.xx. Now I know the architectures are different, but with a highly tweaked system and a benching OS, I pull right around 27 (27.06ish) on my 720 just below 4ghz. So the 21.xx at 4ghz is a bit out of the ball park.
I completely agree, this is the one I'd go for too. Unless you need the BE multiplier flexibility (i.e. if you're going sub-zero), this one is a great choice and will likely do anything most people need with ambient cooling.Nice review Jeremy! I'm pleased with the performance compared to the 1090T and i7 870 so if I ever go hexa core, I'll probably save some cash and get this one.
Thanks, and congrats on your AMD purchase! See if Giga will spring to get you some helium now.Very nice write-up Jeremy But I'm not so convinced in AMD's price/performance ratio.....it may be competative with Intel, but it's not a clear cut victory.
Nevertheless, I just got my hands on my first AMD chip (1090T) since my socket 939 Opteron in 2006 I'm looking forward to the new challenges and fun
Interesting Miah. I actually agree that AMD has a pretty clear victory in the hex-core game, to me. If AMD can give me six cores in a single package and bring competitive performance to the table for less than half the cost that Intel can do it, I'm going to buy my hex cores from AMD. If multicore workloads aren't what I'm using and having the fastest chip for gaming is what I want, I'd scale back the number of cores and look at buying something from intel.
If you absolutely positively need those extra few ticks of power, then $900 for a 980X makes good buying since, but otherwise most people would be happy and well served by an AMD hexcore for $300 or so. Amd does not take the performance crown, but they are selling a great product at a very attractive price that is likely to work for many peoples budgets.
Obviously you're correct with a hex to hex comparison....but I was specifically looking at Lynnfield VS Thuban according to the article. It's a give and take in performance from what I can see....and the price is only slightly different. Plus if you took both CPUs to their individual limits (which Jeremy did not claim to do) I think you'd find the Intel would edge out the Thuban in all but a select few tests.Interesting Miah. I actually agree that AMD has a pretty clear victory in the hex-core game, to me. If AMD can give me six cores in a single package and bring competitive performance to the table for less than half the cost that Intel can do it, I'm going to buy my hex cores from AMD. If multicore workloads aren't what I'm using and having the fastest chip for gaming is what I want, I'd scale back the number of cores and look at buying something from intel.
Thanks, and congrats on your AMD purchase! See if Giga will spring to get you some helium now.
Nope, the graph is correct. I had dropped HT & CPU-NB clocks to push frequency as far as it would go without worrying about having to get them stable too. IIRC, they were < 2000 MHz in the 4.3GHz run, but were at 2400 MHz in the 4.0GHz run. Just goes to show how important HT & CPU-NB clocks really are to benching results!
Thanks man....but Gigabyte provided the goods. I'm going to try to get back into the game well enough to write a guide for AMD overclcoking
/me breaks out the godfather impression
"Some day, and that day may never come, I will call upon you to do a service for me."
I've been asking for someone to write the AMD guide here for what seems like a decade now. Seeing as how we are pointing people to your newest Intel guide on techreaction from our most popular article and a news post on the topic... Maybe you could publish your AMD guide in tandem here at Overclockers.com? It's asking a lot, I know... But it would be a nice way to give a little back for the chunk of traffic and link juice we are sending your way every day!
One more article for old times sake! haha
nice review the results might have been more interesting if the i7-875k had have been used instead of the 655k. Might have been a bit more fair since it was a dual core against quad and hexa cores.
IMOG, I talked to ED the other day about the same thing.
I'm a bit bogged down with school right now. I have my entire guide in Research Paper format, so it won't take me to long to transfer it over to article format. I'd imagine that the Editors will need to work on it a lot to make it worthy of the front page though.
I may have some spare time this weekend to get it done. I do want to add a couple things before I post it up. i.e. add an athlon section to the guide.