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cadaveca · Dec 4, 2011, 04:47 PM

You didn't read the review, obviously.

The board gave every CPU 1.5v. I'm not about to subject my BD chip to that voltage under load. Thuban is fine with it, however.

Also, an FX-4100 shows very little difference in board performance due to how turbo works. The differences between boards are generally so small that it takes a decent CPU to show what's what. An "quad" FX chip under default settings will not run all four cores @ full speed, leading to a situation where you are really only using a dualcore.

I dunno what AMD was thinking with these chips.

Plus when two of the boards were tested, BD didn't exist.

System Name:	Eyefinity Gamer
Processor:	Intel i5 3570K @ 4.6 GHz
Motherboard:	ASUS Maximmus V Formula
Cooling:	Corsair H100
Memory:	16 GB G.Skill F3-2666C11Q-16GTXD
Video Card:	AMD Radeon HD7950 3GB x2 w/AMD Catalyst 12.10
Hard Disk:	OCZ Nocti 60GB mSATA, Crucial M4 120GB x2
Optical Drive:	LG BluRay/HD-DVD
CRT/LCD Model:	3x Dell U2412M
Case:	LianLi T60
Sound Card:	N/A
PSU:	Silverstone Strider 750W GOLD
Software:	Windows 8 Pro
Benchmarks:	Benchmarking is for suckers. ;)

Dec 4, 2011, 04:47 PM	#22
cadaveca My name is Dave Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: The Great White North Posts: 10,929 (4.16/day) Thanks: 4,713 Thanked 5,453 Times in 3,304 Posts System Specs	You didn't read the review, obviously. The board gave every CPU 1.5v. I'm not about to subject my BD chip to that voltage under load. Thuban is fine with it, however. Also, an FX-4100 shows very little difference in board performance due to how turbo works. The differences between boards are generally so small that it takes a decent CPU to show what's what. An "quad" FX chip under default settings will not run all four cores @ full speed, leading to a situation where you are really only using a dualcore. I dunno what AMD was thinking with these chips. Plus when two of the boards were tested, BD didn't exist.