FRONTPAGE AMD FX-8350 - Piledriver - CPU Review

TeknoBug · Oct 28, 2012

ssjwizard said:
Untweaked, 3.9Ghz 8320 on 990FXa-UD3 = 11.59 with samsung 830 256Gb not bad.

Impressive, I remember Win 7 booting up in ~12 seconds on my 80GB SSD, but I run Win 7 off my 1TB HDD now. Linux boots in 6 seconds on the SSD now.

I also played Battlefield: Bad Company 2 on the SSD, maps on the HDD loaded over 60 seconds but on the SSD it loaded in 10 seconds, good benefit gain.

Frakk · Oct 28, 2012

ssjwizard said:
Untweaked, 3.9Ghz 8320 on 990FXa-UD3 = 11.59 with samsung 830 256Gb not bad.

Thats pretty good.

JohnnyBravo · Oct 28, 2012

Nice review!!

hax0red · Oct 28, 2012

Boot time with i5-3570k overclocked 18.6 seconds. Link:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jf381zffrpc4736/boottime.jpg

I have an Asus maximus v gene that allows you to set the bios page display time (1s) which helps reduce boot time even further. I can completely reboot in about 25-28 seconds. SSD is a samsung 830 and ram is samsung green overclocked to 2200mhz for this test, normally set to 2400mhz for gaming (but boots are in consistent and sometimes needs to be reset a few times).

mjw21a · Oct 28, 2012

Frakk said:
Its here for anyone who wants to chalange me

http://www.softpedia.com/get/System/System-Miscellaneous/Windows-Boot-timer.shtml

Nope, your boot speed is way ahead of mine.... Though I've had features of Windows not working for some time. I just can't be bothered reinstalling untill its completely borked :shrug:

petteyg359 · Oct 28, 2012

I've measured time on my XPS laptop at 12 seconds (from hitting enter at GRUB to login screen). I won't be home until Christmas, so I can't try this drive on an 8350 until then

hax0red · Oct 29, 2012

I activated my windows which helped me not have to hit "OK" twice after booting. So far my best time is 8.1 seconds:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/jf381zffrpc4736/boottime.jpg

warpuck · Oct 29, 2012

glad I waited

Going to get one & bounce it between a MSI 890fx & 990fx mobo just to if buying the Sabertooth makes that much difference. Note, I came close to getting a intel board & cpu but bought a 7870 instead

txus.palacios · Oct 29, 2012

Let's get back on topic guys! We're here to talk about Piledriver, not about boot times!

Being completely honest I want to build one of these. And overclock it. Maybe my 2500k is faster than this processor, but it looks fun.

hax0red · Oct 29, 2012

txus.palacios said:
Let's get back on topic guys! We're here to talk about Piledriver, not about boot times!

Being completely honest I want to build one of these. And overclock it. Maybe my 2500k is faster than this processor, but it looks fun.

Thought everyone was comparing Intel to piledriver? Might be lost in translation.

txus.palacios · Oct 29, 2012

Translation can be a PITA most times. I used to translate pages from English to Spanish for fun, and giggled more than once when something was translated literally.

MattNo5ss · Oct 29, 2012

CPU power doesn't seem to have much of an impact on boot time. With an i7 2700K at stock and a 240GB HyperX 3K SSD my boot time was 9.656 seconds in the HyperX 3K review.

wingman99 · Oct 29, 2012

MattNo5ss said:
CPU power doesn't seem to have much of an impact on boot time. With an i7 2700K at stock and a 240GB HyperX 3K SSD my boot time was 9.656 seconds in the HyperX 3K review.

What was the boot time with the 2700k overclocked.

txus.palacios · Oct 30, 2012

The bottleneck on boot time is the HDD speed. You can try this setting up a RAMdisk and installing a VM there. Boot time? What boot time?

swampdonkey · Oct 30, 2012

txus.palacios said:
The bottleneck on boot time is the HDD speed. You can try this setting up a RAMdisk and installing a VM there. Boot time? What boot time?

sorry to be nub but what is a RAMdisk??

marjamar · Oct 30, 2012

Sorry... My fault :facepalm:

-Rodger

wingman99 · Oct 30, 2012

txus.palacios said:
The bottleneck on boot time is the HDD speed. You can try this setting up a RAMdisk and installing a VM there. Boot time? What boot time?

Dose VM have all the windows initialization programs at start up?

I would think that you would need to install a full copy of windows7.

BigHeadClan · Nov 1, 2012

@marjamar
If my memory hasen't failed me since Univ it's taking a section of your RAM and then treating it like a SSD or HDD, however RAM is currently faster than either and suffers far fewer bottnecks. (feel free to poke fun if I got this wrong)

@wingman99
He can create an exact copy of his current machine apps, services ect so it should run through the same initilization that his normal system would have + a few more that the VM he's using probably has to deal with.

That said there is probably some gains/losses to be had with running that in a VM due to virtualization.

hokiealumnus · Nov 29, 2012

AMD's Piledriver FX-8350 Gaming Comparison

When we looked at the Piledriver CPU, we ran it with our standard CPU review HD 6970. However, our CPU review game and 3D benchmark suite is a bit long in the tooth. In an effort to keep our readers more well-informed, we went back to the drawing board to run our much more modern gaming suite (which we use in all GPU reviews) on a more modern, powerful GPU – the ASUS HD 7970 DirectCU II TOP.

... Return to article to continue reading.

Better late than never I always say! :salute:

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