Has anyone overclocked the 8450 or 8650 yet?

cutlass81

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Like the title says. The 8750 seems to overclock pretty well, but I can't find anywhere that has overclocked its siblings yet. Major price difference between the 8750 and the others so I was wondering how it overclocked performs against the others overclocked.
 

Evilonigiri

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AMD I take it? Triple Cripple?

I'm sure there's little to no difference between the 3 in terms of OCing. Perhaps the 8750 is better quality, but it's a B2, is it not? Phenom isn't exactly a great OCer, so getting 500MHz Oc is amazing, especially for the B2 stepping.

If you were planning on getting a Triple Cripple and OC, it's not the greatest of all ideas. If you don't OC, then it will do just fine.
 

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I'm pretty sure that the core is of B3 stepping hence the reason they are 8*50 and not 8*00. The triple cores are supposed to be pretty good overclockers from what I've heard seeing as I've seen several mentions of the 8750 breaking 3Ghz. I plan to OC it because its only going to be a holdover until I can afford something nicer.
 

Evilonigiri

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Oh sorry, I was thinking of the older Tri-core model. How strange. :/

In any case, B3 is a better OCer than the B2, although the gains aren't that spectacular. I read that it is easier to OC a X3 than to OC a X4, but I'm sure 3GHz is around the limit for these cpus. Of course you could get lucky and get ones that OC better.

I take it you already have an AM2 board? An Intel E8400 can OC much further than the X3 and out perform it too in many cases. It also costs about $50 more. In any case, the X3 is a okay cpu for a good price.
 

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Phenom X3 8750 is very good for overclocking.My friend has it.He got 3.1GHz stable.It's very good you will agree.