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- Oct 30, 2012
Hi everyone, I look forward to being an active member here! I'm really excited about my new build using the "Trinity" A10-5800K APU. The price/performance ratio of this new chip is completely unheard of! I'll be focusing first on the closely tied RAM and GPU component of the chip through the CPU Northbridge. As you probably know by now, the graphics performance scales linearly (directly) with the RAM speed. I want to find out what kind of performance can be had when running at DDR3-2400 with an overclocked GPU core, and then later pairing this APU with a GDDR5 6670 card.
System Build:
RAM: G.SKILL Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2400 Model F3-2400C10D-16GTX
APU: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 AD580KWOHJBOX
MB: ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 (Hudson D4)
HSF: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G
PSU: COOLMAX ZX Series ZX-500
Case: XCLIO 320 ATX Mid Tower
DVD: ASUS 24X DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS
Fans: 2x Rosewill RFX-120BL 120mm, 2x XIGMATEK CLF-F1453 140mm
Overclocking the RAM and GPU was so simple I thought I was doing it wrong. Just a couple mouse clicksand the RAM went to 2133, GPU to 1013. No other adjustments needed; Auto voltages, Intel XMP taking care of the RAM timings, and it ran OpenGL and Direct3D games all day long with no issues.
I've played around a bit in the BIOS trying to run this 2400 RAM at 2400. Windows wouldn't boot stably until the Northbridge voltage was raised to 1.21875 (from 1.175 stock), and Firefox kept crashing until 1.28125 volts were applied. CPU and GPU clocks were kept stock through all this. (EDIT: the latest 1.50 BIOS fixes this issue under Auto voltage settings).
This hardware is phenomenal, and the manufacturers want to impress (thanks ASRock). Look for some more benchmarks soon.
System Build:
RAM: G.SKILL Trident X Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR3 2400 Model F3-2400C10D-16GTX
APU: AMD A10-5800K Trinity 3.8GHz (4.2GHz Turbo) Socket FM2 AD580KWOHJBOX
MB: ASRock FM2A85X Extreme6 (Hudson D4)
HSF: COOLER MASTER Hyper 212 Plus RR-B10-212P-G1
SSD: OCZ Vertex 4 VTX4-25SAT3-128G
PSU: COOLMAX ZX Series ZX-500
Case: XCLIO 320 ATX Mid Tower
DVD: ASUS 24X DRW-24B1ST/BLK/B/AS
Fans: 2x Rosewill RFX-120BL 120mm, 2x XIGMATEK CLF-F1453 140mm
Overclocking the RAM and GPU was so simple I thought I was doing it wrong. Just a couple mouse clicksand the RAM went to 2133, GPU to 1013. No other adjustments needed; Auto voltages, Intel XMP taking care of the RAM timings, and it ran OpenGL and Direct3D games all day long with no issues.
I've played around a bit in the BIOS trying to run this 2400 RAM at 2400. Windows wouldn't boot stably until the Northbridge voltage was raised to 1.21875 (from 1.175 stock), and Firefox kept crashing until 1.28125 volts were applied. CPU and GPU clocks were kept stock through all this. (EDIT: the latest 1.50 BIOS fixes this issue under Auto voltage settings).
This hardware is phenomenal, and the manufacturers want to impress (thanks ASRock). Look for some more benchmarks soon.
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