Tuesday, June 7th 2011
AMD FX 8 Core and 4 Core Processor Systems Seen Running at E3
At the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) 2011, AMD made its revival of the FX brand identifier official. The company steered clear of actually launching anything, but reran the audience through the AMD Bulldozer architecture, something AMD first did way back in August 2010 (yeah, it's been that long!). Knowing the audience needed a lot more than just that, AMD ran live demos of gaming PCs running the new FX series processors, again, without giving away any performance figures.
AMD first showed the final box art design. The box of the eight-core FX Black Edition processor is a classy metal canister, while the quad-core FX chip is housed in a more common-looking paperboard box, the design of which matches the one revealed in a box-art exposé back in March. The gaming rigs shown run the eight-core FX processor on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard, with Radeon HD 6900 series graphics, with an Eyefinity display setup.
An instance of next-generation AMD Overdrive software is running, displaying a surprisingly low 19°C temperature on all cores. This could be a glitch, probably because AOD doesn't support the sensor interface of the new FX chips properly, yet. The other thing AOD reveals is that each of the eight cores is running on its own BClk multiplier value, ranging from 1.00 GHz (5 x 200 MHz), to 3.20 GHz (16 x 200 MHz). The core voltage for all the cores is displayed as 1.4V, again we suspect a low-level interface glitch.
Source:
4Gamer.net
AMD first showed the final box art design. The box of the eight-core FX Black Edition processor is a classy metal canister, while the quad-core FX chip is housed in a more common-looking paperboard box, the design of which matches the one revealed in a box-art exposé back in March. The gaming rigs shown run the eight-core FX processor on an ASUS Crosshair V Formula motherboard, with Radeon HD 6900 series graphics, with an Eyefinity display setup.
178 Comments on AMD FX 8 Core and 4 Core Processor Systems Seen Running at E3
Anyway.....it's interesting to see that all those cores are about to run at different frequencies. I thought that only one core would be overclocked and the rest at a set clock. I guess it's different with these "modules".
The sensors are NOT i repet NOT broken they read correctly
I must of missed this great new technology AMD has that allows their processors to run under ambient temperatures using a stock air cooler.
So with that being said. I repet, the temperature sensor(s) are not giving accurate readings.
:laugh:
Im not sure if he has one, but im pretty sure he knows someone that has one;)
I agree that this was a pointless demo, until they show any benchmarks or viable performance numbers, I will assume these are at best on par with SB CPU's.
I am at 20C on my soon to be outmatched 1090T at 4.1GHz at the moment. Then again, I am also not doing much save for running a single sever and reading up here at TPU. Well, that, and I am also running a Thermaltake Frio cooler. lol
Can't wait to get my greedy geeky hands on one of these 8 cores....
Each core had different frequency, but the voltage stayed the same.
sites.amd.com/us/promo/processors/Pages/fx-processor.aspx
U mean that fkn plastic spastic fake tits barbie doll?
Show some class man!
Though you can actually get a degree or two under room ambient on high-end air in a highly ventilated case. Depends on humidity and how much air you got moving through the cooler and case itself. So you will cool to the ambient of the air being forced over the cooler, and that can indeed be slightly less than the air temps in a room with stagnate air. To a point anyway. lol