Ion gets a FX8

[Ion] · Aug 4, 2013

So, what with the summer drawing to a close, I decided that now would be time to prepare for the cooler weather of fall. And I just so happen to have a $500 Tiger Direct gift card that I won in a computer assembly race back in May. Given Haswell's lackluster improvement, I decided to get an AMD FX8 setup to see what it's all about. So, here I am. I'm in the process now of setting up a new system. Specs are:
ASUS M5A99FX Pro R2
AMD FX8350 (what else!)
160GB Western Digital HDD (bigger than necessary, but all I have is this and 1TB ones)
4GB G.SKILL DDR3 (not sure what speed)
Antec 650w PSU
Radeon X300 (?)

TigerDirect wanted an unreasonable $109 for a Corsair H80i, so I'm running on stock cooling for now. I'm installing Windows 7 on it for now; I'm going to see if I can get a 10% OC out of it. Then I'm going to load on Mint and WCG and see how it does

Deleted member 24505 · Aug 4, 2013

Nice, were's the backplate gone off the gfx card? just wondered. Don't short nothing on the board with that hdd.

Norton · Aug 4, 2013

Nice!!!

You will definitely need better cooling- order at least a Xig Gaia and a pair of 1,500rpm min. fans before the end of the day.

* The Xig Night Hawk is better but the Gaia is hard to beat for price/performance

btw- YGPM incoming

[Ion] · Aug 4, 2013

Tigger: Lost it, haven't seen it since Feb
Norton: Indeed, the stock cooler is exactly how we would hope for it to be--load and hot. I do have a spare Hyper 212 or Gaia somewhere, I just need to find the mounting equipment for it

Vario · Aug 4, 2013

If you don't go with the coolers you have, I recommend the Phantek PH-TC12DX as a cooler as the H80i is out of your budget. Its $50-60 and comes in a variety of colors. The performance is very good and it doesn't take up very much space in the case (about the same as a CM212). Its like a better built CM212. Comes with two high end fans and great thermal paste. Really worth it.

[Ion] · Aug 4, 2013

Ended up finding a Hyper 212+--only one set of fan brackets, but oh well.

Noob question--reasonable max temps or volts? This thing seems to run much cooler than my i7s albeit with much higher voltages

Norton · Aug 4, 2013

[Ion] said:
Ended up finding a Hyper 212+--only one set of fan brackets, but oh well.

Noob question--reasonable max temps or volts? This thing seems to run much cooler than my i7s albeit with much higher voltages

Try to keep it around 60C or less on the die (the higher temp listed using HW monitor) and under 1.4v on core voltage and it will crunch fine

TRWOV · Aug 4, 2013

I've been working on undervolting the FX8350s, so far I've gotten one of them to 1.25v and the other to 1.275v. I think that'd get you the best watts/ppd ratio as the voltage curve is pretty steep with them.

Norton · Aug 4, 2013

TRWOV said:
I've been working on undervolting the FX8350s, so far I've gotten one of them to 1.25v and the other to 1.275v. I think that'd get you the best watts/ppd ratio as the voltage curve is pretty steep with them.

I did that a bit as well.

I have one 8350 running at 4.4Ghz @1.34v (52-58C on air) and the other is at 4.2Ghz @1.24v (48-54C on water). Both will crunch happily at 100% load with near/over 6k ppd output. I have no idea on power use....

[Ion] · Aug 4, 2013

Norton said:
Try to keep it around 60C or less on the die (the higher temp listed using HW monitor) and under 1.4v on core voltage and it will crunch fine

OK. At 4.4GHz it was doing 56C right before it locked up. Currently it's just at stock--will OC later on.

I have now officially welcomed Danmarkshavn to my fleet!

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

These results are of course very preliminary as I just set up BOINC/WCG on the system four hours ago, but, the results are....looking pretty good

Norton · Aug 5, 2013

Very interested in how well your FX does in Linux!

I am planning on moving the i7's I have over to Linux at some point but if your FX ppd looks good I may move one of the 8350's or the 8150 over to Linux.

t_ski · Aug 5, 2013

[Ion] said:
Tigger: Lost it, haven't seen it since Feb

You need one? I can probably hook you up with a standard or low-profile one.

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

Norton said:
Very interested in how well your FX does in Linux!

I am planning on moving the i7's I have over to Linux at some point but if your FX ppd looks good I may move one of the 8350's or the 8150 over to Linux.

I'm honestly rather astonished. I am curious to see how it does on other WUs (CEP2, mostly) but I'm just running SN2S ATM because that's the (active) project that I've done the least on. I will give FAAH a shot as well--it does pretty well on my other systems :toast:

Currently, my 2600k and FX8350 are both on Linux, with the rest on Windows. Once I see for sure exactly how much better Linux is, I may bring over the 3770k, 2700k, and 3930k. We shall see :toast:

t_ski said:
You need one? I can probably hook you up with a standard or low-profile one.

I have mo video cards than I can shake a stick at. I have close to 9 G92 cards, some GT520s as well--nah, I'm just using this card because I already had it down at the desk and it's low power (no need for my GTX560TI448 for a computer that will just crunch). I probably even have a generic low-profile DVI bracket around here somewhere...

Thanks though!

de.das.dude · Aug 5, 2013

whats the organic stuff ?

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

de.das.dude said:
whats the organic stuff ?

That is a terrarium with two hamsters in it--that is shredded paper that they burrow in

brandonwh64 · Aug 5, 2013

Wow this is a sweet looking system ION!

TRWOV · Aug 5, 2013

Norton said:
I did that a bit as well.

I have one 8350 running at 4.4Ghz @1.34v (52-58C on air) and the other is at 4.2Ghz @1.24v (48-54C on water). Both will crunch happily at 100% load with near/over 6k ppd output. I have no idea on power use....

Well, mine are pulling 385w in total with sudden jumps to 400w (Turbo Core I think). This is with two Antec Earthwatts 380 (80+ bronze).

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

brandonwh64 said:
Wow this is a sweet looking system ION!

Thanks! It does a very good job I think :toast:

TRWOV said:
Well, mine are pulling 385w in total with sudden jumps to 400w (Turbo Core I think). This is with two Antec Earthwatts 380 (80+ bronze).

I would be astonished if mine was drawing nearly 400w. lm-sensors says that the CPU is right at 125w--I'd think that with the low-end GPU and single HDD it wouldn't be more than 200w at the wall.

TRWOV · Aug 5, 2013

That's for both of them, so each one is pulling 192w

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

TRWOV said:
That's for both of them, so each one is pulling 192w

That's much more reasonable. Still nearly twice what the 3770k does, but also a lot cheaper. I would be interested in seeing how a stock-clocked barebones FX8350 does....hmmm.

xvi · Aug 5, 2013

Can't wait to see numbers. I like that AMD is trying new things, but this power usage thing is just.. a bit much. I'll take a die shrunk Phenom III X8, please.

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

xvi said:
Can't wait to see numbers. I like that AMD is trying new things, but this power usage thing is just.. a bit much. I'll take a die shrunk Phenom III X8, please.

Well, we somehow "manage" just fine with 225w GPUs, so I don't think that 125w is too terrible. I suspect that with a hefty OC it would get much worse very fast

ThE_MaD_ShOt · Aug 5, 2013

My Fx 83560 is running at 4.4 on stock volts running right around 50c with a hyper 212+ in push pull. The ambient with 4 rigs is around 80f. It is my top producing cruncher with an average of around 5.5k.

[Ion] · Aug 5, 2013

ThE_MaD_ShOt said:
My Fx 83560 is running at 4.4 on stock volts running right around 50c with a hyper 212+ in push pull. The ambient with 4 rigs is around 80f. It is my top producing cruncher with an average of around 5.5k.

I have a hyper212+ with only a single can (because I can't find the other set of brackets) and it's doing low-40s C at 4GHz. Trying to do 4.3 or 4.4GHz (even overvolted) it locked up as soon as I started a stress test.

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