Phenom vs. Athlon Core Scaling Compared

[Mathos]

Hmmm when I had it running at 2.5core/2.4NB it was turning out pretty good number on Some of the benchies. But, unless he did a clean install of windows for each change that would be part of his problems. Good clean install of Winows XP pro seems to have salved my instabilities *knocks on wood*. Currently running 2.3/2.0 till MSI puts out the bios update that makes it so you can just use a menu to change the core multi, without knowing some advanced math. Did have it running at 2.8 without much issue other than windows arguing with AOD, was otherwise finishing all benchmarks without hitch.

Part of his problems may be revolving around Cool and quiet, especially when OCing with the HT base freq. And I haven't had to raise the voltages on mine at all, still sitting at 1.25v core. I think the other part of his problem is revolving around the way AOD works for overclocking.

But, I know for sure my problems were mostly with windows due to the fact I was getting disk read error on boot, even at stock speeds.

 

[gpippas]

Sounds like AOD is just causing more issues than help. I installed it on my system with an old skt 939 4800x2. It started up but anything to do with overclocking was blanked out and it was reading everything else incorrectly then the **** BSOD my system so I got rid of it. Thats a warning to all software don't BSOD my system or your gone.

 

[Steve_long]

At one point I was cheering for AMD, as the champion of the “little guy” against the “Big and lazy” corporation named Intel. But I found AMD’s behaviour frankly despicable and unworthy of commendation over the last two years.

Why am I saying these things, when were are talking about Processor scalability? Well because – the Processors are products of company philosophy and policy. AMD’s behaviour has been abysmal, and hence its not surprising its products lately have been a joke.

First of all, AMD after bringing out a world class processor, the Athlon X2 line, promptly forgot its customers and demanded we switched over to an AM2 after we initially spent money on a 939 socket mobo. Ok they did not demand, but if you wanted the next processor above the 4800 Athlon x2, you would have to buy not just a processor, but also a pigging new motherboard. Before that, AMD messed about with various FX chips with some short lived sockets before arriving at the 939 socket. All a waste of time and displaying a lack of customer care!

AMD then took Intel to court – wasting money really, since Intel have got deep pockets and for what? so that Intel would relinquish its stranglehold on the Processor market. Fine, but AMD forgot it’s nerd status and wanted to go toe to toe with the big-guy Intel. Flush with early success in convincing the likes of HP to uses its processors in their servers, AMD began to believe its own hype. AMD began to play up to its corporate image and strutted its stuff as one of the big boys. It forgot what a monster company Intel is, and gave it the incentive to reclaim the performance crown.

So here we are; 2008 and AMD is fighting a loosing battle against the E8000 series. Still trying to “wow” us with its K8 architecture. Serves it right!