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
Ya GPU intensive
Dirt 3 is the first game built for FX I guess
Dragon Age 2 is GPU dependent
Dirt 3 is a CPU intensive game having a gpu is just a plus
I told techspot to use AMD more got the ban
Techspot doesn't seem to understand that intel doesn't scale well with the nvidia gpus(i7 920 @ stock beating a i7 2600K @ stock, proof, proof 2: i7 2500K @ stock getting beat by a i5 750 @ stock)
I have a request to TPU can you do a benchmark of a AMD Phenom II 1100T(and 980BE) and i7 2600K/2500K OC'ed to 3.7GHz with a 6970,6990,590GTX with a 3 monitor setup (7680x1600) for dirt 3 and get the fps list
results are very similar to this, although the difference is not as large. I think that when I redo some boards, I'll be swapping Dirt3 in for F1 2010, in fact...I want to replace Civ 5 too.I think I'll await bulldozer though, and do what board I have on hand then. I don't know that I'll keep every board.:
I'm actually part way through setting up eyefinity right this moment...was gonna shut this rig down and move it over to the triple monitors, but decided to check my mail first, and here I am. So I got the monitors, and the boards/cpus/rams.
I don't do videocard reviews, and never will, and W1zz doesn't do motherboard/CPU reviews, so that's kinda asking for a bit much. Also, asking for triple 30-inch numbers is a bit silly. Common triple setup is 5760x1080, which is what I got.