Report: AMD Readying FX-8770 and FX-9000 CPUs

[sarinaide]

This CPU compares to an American V8. That TDP is ridiculous. What it will cost in power consumption and the PSU you will need to run it, will outweigh any benefit in performance and price compared to a 4770.

Clearly this part is not for you then, this is an enthusiast part not a day to day gamers system. If you are a serious overclocker ie into extreme clocking then this is for you due to the fact it will push extreme numbers under the right cooling don't be surprised if this doesnt do 10ghz on 8 cores. If you don't appreciate this chip then its clearly not for you but don't for a second think that your purpose is the same as everyone elses as there are enough overclockers out there that will find this chip extremely purposeful.

 

[sna]

hey guys , it makes alot difference when you buy a product overclocked under warranty that hits 5ghz than buying low clocked one and overclock it yourself and burn it and loose warranty.

I always wanted intel to sell Guaranteed ready overclocked cpu running native at 4.8 G with the option to lower it in the Bios to lower TDP.

we should be doing UNDER CLOCKING not Over clocking. give us the max and let us decide what TDP we want to work with.

 

[PlanarX999]

Power-hungry chip, not good, should avoid it.
IF this chip have more performance improve than predecessor, then it still worth especially for their low price.

 

[InvalidError]

When are AMD going to move to a 22nm manufacturing die?

Rumors from late last year say Global Foundries plans to skip 20-22nm and go straight for 14nm in 2014. So it seems AMD will be stuck at 28-32nm at least until some point next year.

 

[SteelCity1981]

what do you expect from a 32nm 8 core 5ghz system. I wouldn't expect it to be anything less then 220w lol

 

[rolli59]

At some point we will reach the power delivery limit of the motherboards, many on the market which can not even handle 125watt tdp, wonder how many can deal with an overclocked CPU with std tdp of 220watts.

 

[chicofehr]

When winter comes this will be great. I love it!!!! I hope they come out with a 500W one soon for those really cold days.

 

[InvalidError]

At some point we will reach the power delivery limit of the motherboards

If AMD really decides to go to hell with TDPs, they could go back to Slot-A days but instead of using the CPU card to package CPU+cache together, they could use it to package CPU+VRM with EPS12V/ATX12V/PEG cables plugging directly into the CPU module to relieve the motherboard and CPU socket/slot from carrying 120-160A at ~1.4V. This way, the motherboard is taken completely out of the core power delivery equation.

Or AMD could go down the (F)IVR route too...

 

[wysir]

build a system around an FX 9000 and some GTX480's (remember those things?) and a LEPA G1600 and you can heat your house at the same time!

I have 2 of those 480s brand new in box. I'm thinking if I get all 3 pieces in a rig, I can move to Alaska!
I'm seriously wandering if they are going to supply an adequate stock cooler for this. I know that diamond thermal grease can increase cooling greatly, but I don't think it can handle that much of a heat load.

 

[WDCaviarSwag]

Holy mother of TDP

 

[wiyosaya]

hmm, it's interesting to see a desktop chip throw performance per watt to the wind and shoot straight for raw power to target extreme enthusiasts.
if this can somehow match i5 stock performance, then good for AMD. I'm excited to see reviews. it should at least prompt Intel to be less lazy about desktop performance

Personally, I think it is especially interesting to see this CPU throw performance / watt to the wind since it was AMD that started the performance / watt battle.

Perhaps this is a fake it until they catch up strategy.

 

[BSMonitor]

Overvolting madness on a horrible design.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Did a little looking around, turns out this might not be a late april 1'st. apparantly it might even outperform the 4770. (at a significant power handicap)

honestly for those with custom liquid loops (I'm looking to start one up again this year ), a little extra on the TDP and the all american power cost of something like $0.10 per kiloWatt hr, a power handicap is the last thing on my mind 😛

A little extra TDP? This is almost double the TDP and along with that comes higher heat output.

I would also assume that overclocking these would require water cooling and I doubt they will come with a stock AMD heatsink as even some top end coolers are barley rated for 200W.

Either way it seems to be a last shot for AMDs PD until Steamroller comes which is sometime when they decide it to, whenever that is.

 

[TheBigTroll]

i highly doubt amd would want to pull this off

 

[brvnbld]

i have been waiting for some news from AMD for a looooong time. gonna wait for the public release.

 

[albert 89]

Like someone said their buying time by bringing these products out until Christmas. Which is when we'll get the real shit => Steamroller & for the APU's HSA or HUNA technology. I must confess I use Intel, but I still love what AMD is doing and like most of us in this forum hope they can pull it off again like the good old days !!!!!!

 

[Jay Magnus]

LOL wtf. I wonder is cheap cases would just melt.

 

[demonhorde665]

220 tdp that can't be real, seriously now main board curntly supports a tdp that high , highest I've see is 145 no one will hardly buy it because it wont be a valid upgrade path for current main boards. even my sabertooth gaming board only supports 145 tdp.

 

[ihog]

That's just too much. No way would I consider a processor with that high of a TDP.

 

[erodz1892]

I guess AMD is heading the opposite direction of Intel and as long as they perform good I could care less about the TDP since water coolers are so cheap nowadays.

 

[vmem]

I guess AMD is heading the opposite direction of Intel and as long as they perform good I could care less about the TDP since water coolers are so cheap nowadays.

No, AMD is tackling the market separately. on one hand they're trying to lower TDP and balance graphics with CPU power, as exemplified with their temash and jaguar designs. on the other hand, they decided (correctly I might add), an extreme desktop using buying a top-end core honestly don't care about TDP as long as the thing doesn't over heat. this is good because even with the intel cores, the extreme user overclocks it close to a 200 watt TDP anyway...

 

[Mokedoke]

WANT!

 

[hartacus]

I'm really upset, this is "leak" is BS. If you go to the AMD website you can clearly see the ninja guy with an A series APU on his back. And the cores and the series wouldn't match. I'm going to wait until the end of January for steamroller. My pocket is already itching to go pick up a 4770k though.

 

[hartacus]

I'm really upset, this is "leak" is BS. If you go to the AMD website you can clearly see the ninja guy with an A series APU on his back. And the cores and the series wouldn't match. I'm going to wait until the end of January for steamroller. My pocket is already itching to go pick up a 4770k though.

 

[merikafyeah]

High clock; Low efficiency. Back to the days of Pentium 4 are we?