Lest we forget...
...I doubt that the mainstream that pass through this forum section, that being AMD CPUs, will really investigate this thread. Most of what 'seems' to pass thru are just looking for numbers to punch in to go fast. I have been here nearly day in and day out now for 2 years after becoming un-employed in the consumer motherboard industry. So I have gathered a sense of the ebb and flow thru this forum section. Make that I sense what seems to be the prevailing ebb and flow thru this forum section.
Before you take what I sense to be right or wrong or needs to be categorized, let me say that is not really necessary. I am only saying what seems to be; not correct, good or bad but only what seems to be.
For most of what you see in threads like this one here, to make any sense, you almost have to have a grasp of how your own rig operates already. Coming into threads like this "cold", like most everything we look at, may or may not be visually stimulating. Cold hard numbrers and lots of them just don't do much for many of us.
Take this thread for instance by ssjwizard,
FX Bulldozer VS Piledriver, 8120 VS 8320, Gaming comparrison', and dig thru it. He spent a lot of time over the course of data gathering and the data was so dramatic that most of us knew that struggling for more than 4.3Ghz on Bulldozer cores, was most likely a useless exercise. Another bit of information that I gathered was that a lowered price displayed to move the old tech Bulldozers was not a good reason to buy other than a Vishera based FX-series processor.
When ssjwizard began that thread, I decided n0t to post something similar but not exactly what he did but to only graph/chart, what I had been doing in the background for a few weeks with my FX-8120. Guys he had it nailed. No need to RE-invent the wheel.
I did not search for the list, but if you come across what ssjwizard is using his FX-8320 for and I can only remember just a few of the things that run CON-currently on his rig. I think they were server, at least 2 VM's, F_at_H, and well you get the idea I think. His rigs have something like work to do and not just plow thru a game. He has spent countless hours testing, tweaking and testing again before tweaking some more.
There are others in this forum section that do the same thing. They never say a thing about their rigs or they are not particularly vocal about what they do. They don't game much and they have tested into the guts of their rigs.
I know fairly personally one user that has an application so large that it was taking a four-core Deneb 5 days to provide him with an answer. Five days at WFO. He taught himself overclocking in less than 3 months and went to 8-core AMD to cut that time to get answer in that giant application to just a shade over 2 days. I just received a report that his FX-6300 was able to do the same giant application in just about 2.5 days or a shade less. Do what? 6-cores of Vishera right at the doorstep of 8-core Bulldozer? There seems a measurable difference between Bulldozer and Vishera for 'work'.
So when a long, results oriented thread is started, there are multiple forum members out there that have contributed input to most of these threads in one way or another. Others have helped develop the stategy. They may not even know they had input to the thread but something they said along the way may have helped in the overall processing of the thread, be it if only by support and atta-boys.
I will not name names but I am fairly certain that at least 6 nameless forum members have in one way or the other helped generate this thread. Those users do a tremendous amount of legwork in the background before they even voice a "help" to the one coming in wanting to know how to overclock X. I respect those "users". I glean something from them all and I never expect to see eye to eye with them They after all are individuals. What we seek to do is use our stuff fast and furious within logical reason. Hehehe. Thanks men.
Long-winded ole faht.
RGone..._________________
on this post Rgone. That is a whole bunch of work you did and it definitely should be read by all overclockers, not just AMD people.
Good job there Rgone. I see you just can't leave that puppy alone.
