Quick Cold Air Llano Runs – A8-3870K

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So after llano released I wanted to give it a shot but never got around to it. Now finally after so long I’m going back to it. (See previous posts for motherboard and CPU shots)
Picked up the Gigabyte A75-UD4H and 3870K for around $160CAD total so it couldnt hurt :)

This is the ram kit I have

I decided to do some preliminary CPU tests under cold air. For those of you that do not know, Llano does not clock nearly as well as Phenom II did on air. Max stable air clocks for my chip are around 3.5GHz on the corsair H50 so I’m using cold air to give a little bit more headroom for benchmarks.

About -10C outside currently.

Just did some quick and dirty chilled H2O runs with my corsair H50 on the 3870K. Corsair rad was put out the window in -10C weather.

Ram was left at a stock XMP profile, just overclocking with multiplier here. Untuned Win 7 X64

Shot of the setup

4GHz SuperPi 1M

3.8GHz wPrime 32m

3.8GHz PiFast

3.8Ghz Cinebench………….the 3.4GHz result was actually done at 3.6

4.1GHz validation All 4 Cores………mm voltage
Validation

Thats all for tonight, the chip is back to folding for the time being.

When I get time to bench again, next up is some ram+GPU tuning and some 3d benchies vs stock benchies :)

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Making Up For Lost Time – A8-3870K Will Be On Hand Soon!

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Well amidst all the new releases of trinity and PD, I have opted to pick up a 3870K paired with a GA-75-UD4H to have a little bit of fun.
I skipped over llano when it came out and most other releases as I have been pretty busy with life outside the forums/blog.

So now it is time to make up for all that.

I will be receiving my 3870K in a week, but for now here are some shots of the board and ram:

This is the ram kit I have : http://www.legitreviews.com/article/1647/1/

Hopefully this can provide enough bandwidth for the iGPU…especially once I tweak it :P

I will be posting results in here once I get the APU

Slappa’s IceTube – A6-3400M APU Overclocked to 3.4GHz

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I have recently been working on fixing my HP g6 laptop. As a result, everything is ripped apart down to the bare bone hardware itself.

That is when I started to get ideas. …

We all know that mobile llano (sabine) is capable of being software clocked using K10Stat. So I decided to bust out a lightweight dry ice pot and fill it with regular ice cubes!

 

All Set Up!

Down Pot Shot

Getting Frosty…oh and If you’re wondering why I’m reading the GPU temp, it is on die so it is the same as the CPU temp :)

Mobile Madness! 3.4GHz on an A6-3400M APU

Base Shot, and SODIMMs

Beware of condensation!
Fun Fact: Right after I took this photo the water leaked through the seal and dripped down onto the socket. Luckily I unplugged the motherboard before any damage was done.

Now for a couple fun little benchmark runs!

SuperPi 1M @ 3.3GHz

wPrime 32m 4 Threads
3400M @ 3GHz

Well all I can say is that was fun. The laptop motherboard I am using actually has a broken connector for the LCD screen so I am waiting for a new one to ship. Maybe I can pick up a cheap A8-3500M and do some benching on that!

HIS HD Radeon 7950

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Hey everyone. This week I swapped out my GTX570 for a brand new 7950.

Why didn’t I get a 670 you ask? I felt like trying an AMD card this round and it was a great deal!

Here are the hardware pr0nz:

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The “Excalibur” Box

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Card is sitting neatly and cleanly wrapped in the package.

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I have no idea what the black plastic thing is, but here is what comes in the box.

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And now, the card in all it’s beauty (sorry for the lower quality pics).

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As you can see above, this card takes two 6-pin PCIE power.

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This card supports eyefinity, so you can have up to 6 monitors connected. You will also notice this card has 2 mini display-port as well as HDMI and DVI.

Benchmarks will come later on!

Ivy Bridge Build

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Did a build for my friend recently. He needed it for some gaming, specifically Diablo 3. It is a little overkill for that game, but it should last him for awhile. The Specs are:

Intel i5 3450 Ivy Bridge CPU
Gigabyte Z77-D3H
G.Skill Ripjaw 16GB
EVGA GTX570 SuperClocked GPU
Corsair CX600 PSU
1TB 7200.12 Seagate HDD
Antec One Case

Here are the pics:

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Unfortunately I never got a chance to benchmark the Ivy since they needed the build right away. It is a non-unlocked chip so it won’t OC as easily or far either.