Dragon age, 121.4 FPS vs 118.4 FPS = within margin for error. Draw.
3fps = draw because it was in phenoms favour
World of Warcraft, 80.6 FPS vs 77.7FPS = within margin for error. Draw.
3.1 fps within margin of error because it was in phenoms favour
Starcraft 2, 42.5 FPS vs 47.8FPS = winner, FX 8120
5.3 fps "absolutley smashed it! the bull dozer is the clear winner"
lol sorry for the sarcasm. it just seems that your margin of error extends to the precice point where the phenom is able to beat the 8150 by.. some thing tells me 10fps would have been within the margin of error if the phenom was 10fps faster..
my point however still stands you can argue that a phenom is faster... (as is being proven) and i specifically stated the 8120 which is slower than the 8150 which by your "margin of error rules" would undoubtedly leave all the areas where you say "phenom margin of error draw" as "phemon wins" and the one where the fx wins because of its massive 2fps above your imposed margin of error, would be reduced to a draw.. "with your margin of error rules"
all of this is utterly pointless however because like i said you can argue the phenom is faster. dosen't mean its true and dosen't mean it isn't . it simply means you can have a valid argument about it pitching apples vs oranges all day and never really agreeing on it.
so i still stand by my statement that a Q6600 clock for clock is faster than an 8120.
and i still also stand by my statment that i believe the 8120 is able to keep the same through put up at a slightly slower pace than the q6600 which seems to fluctuate more in its work..
the end result is 2 processors that at the same speed preform almost exactly the same in almost all tasks.
Don't buy another cheap motherboard if your doing an FX. They really need all the VRM they can get. 4+1 isn't enough unless you were doing a 4300.
thats my thinking too. but in all honestly this set up is not going to be a long term build.
i chose the aftermarket cooler i did because it works very well on both amd and i5's
the long term goal is get an i5.
the short term was. get rid of the q6600 whilst i can still get newer tech for the same money. (did that)
now i need a board that i can actually use the 8120 on to atleast stock potential for as close to nothing as possible..
spent a while and the only board that i can buy for next to nothing is the ga-78lmt-usb3.
I am also trying to buy a 1155 board with 2/3rd gen i5 support. which i will stash away for a while. the boards arent that expensive right now because the cpu's are expensive so people just seem to buy pre built or bundle deals.
once i have the 1155 board i will roll this 8120 + board over aiming for the £100 mark which is a bit less than i see them going for on ebay and a bit more than i paid for it and the ram. keep the ram. and spend about £100 on an i5 2500k
this way whats happend is i turned my £70 worth of hardware (q6600 parts) in to £100 + 4gb ddr3 ram. and i really do think if i held on to the system for much longer i would have been risking getting even less for it.
What i hope to eventually happen is throug a seriese of seemingly useless upgrades that cost me nothing that i can infact get my self an I5 + motherboard + ram for the price of a mother board in cold hard cash. and the rest of it comes from selling the upgrades.
It also means that i have a system i can use upstairs whilst i try and find a inexpensive 1155 board.
typing it out like that it seems like a lot of effort to save a few quid and spread out the costs lol. But i think i prefer doing it the difficult way.
as for the cheap 4+1 board.
I could in theory just not bother with it and sell this board + cpu on..
but honestly what kind of low life would knowingly sell on a 3+1 board with a 8120..
(apparantly scan would lol. they were the ones who sold it to the person who sold it to me.)