"Piledriver" owner discussion thread

[PolRoger]

I'm looking forward to getting it back.
In the mean time I'll just have to make do by running Intel.

 

[Hilight]

Threaded performance comparrison

8120 wPrime 8 threads @ 5.43ghz 7.140 seconds
8320 wPrime 8 threads @ 5.06ghz 6.766 seconds

7.14/5.43=1.135
6.766/5.06=1.337

1.337/1.135 = 1.178

The 8320 in this particular benchmark by my math is 17.8% faster than the 8120 is.

I saw your 8320 run over on HWbot--nice time


I got my 8350 over the weekend and have been playing around with it. I'm running [email protected] for my 24/7 setting but now I'm thinking about backing it off a notch to 4.7. It was very easy to get the chip up to 4.8 but going to 5Ghz took a bit of messing around with it. Anything above 4.8 and you have to raise the LLC and core V quite a bit. I'm running on air and temps don't appear to be a problem, but I think the on-chip thermistors don't report correctly as core-temp reports idle temps of 16-20C which seems a bit low to me

 

[Hyperiox]

I have Core Temp, CPUID CPU-Z, and CPUID HWMonitor... but none are showing the core temperatures, just the CPU temperature (or Package temps). I don't know what to do to resolve this, they don't appear to be showing up in the BIOS either.

I am running an FX-8350 on a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5.

 

[Mandrake4565]

Does that board have "core unlocker" in the bios. If you have that enabled it will sometimes cause that issue. You do not need that function enabled/turned on because the FX cores come unlocked.

 

[Hyperiox]

I saw that bit of advice before and searched for anything that looked like "Core Unlocker", but I couldn't find anything. Is there any other name for it that Gigabyte would use?