AMD's Bulldozer Architecture: Overclocking Efficiency Explored

[CoryJamaul]

I do like the idea that underclocking it gives better performance than the stock setting. Though this CPU might not sit as my No. 1 choice for my builds, I still think that AMD deserves credit for trying something new, and I'm sure the future will yield better results for the bulldozer architecture. I've liked AMD for years, and I'm not about to stop just because of this.

 

[peroludiarom]

Please Tom's Hardaware - check this update for any significant performance increace in Windows 7! Thanks in advance!

update for Bulldozer cpus:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2645594

 

[Guest]

Hotfix makes a huge difference in matlab bsides ODE/2d/3d. Using means from 10 runs on stock 8120, although it should be noted the drawing ones get slower as runs increase (assuming since its already got them open) anyway in same order error in parenthesis besides for 2d/3d to show slowdown times

3d 230.5 ms (first 196.5 ms, last 175.3 ms) fft 132.0 ms (+/- 3.7ms) LU 123.5 ms (+/- 0.7ms) 2d 347.3 ms (first 298.6 last 363.9ms) ODE 122.2 ms (+/- 1.3ms) Sparse 251.4 (+/- 8.3ms)