ok, so ive done loads of surfing the net with regards to the above and i cant seem to find very much.
system specs first.
AMD Phenom II 1055T overclocked to 3.8gig
cooler : vendetta 2
8gig Corsair DDR3 1600MhZ
ASRock 990FX extreme 3 mobo
Gainward GTX470
120gig Mushkin Chronos SSD
1Tb 7200rpm HDD
windows 7 64bit HP
i bought, on a whim a AMD FX8150 8core. it was a really good price and i stupidly didnt do any research into it :confused: once the new CPU was in i left the stock clock speeds and ran a few benchmarks using pcmark vantage, pcmark 7 etc etc and saw absolutely no increase in performance what so ever. so, i ran a few games and monitored the FPS etc and i actually saw a drop in fps compared to my phenom II.
I tried to overclock the 8150 but the heat generation was horrendous, but for the short time i was able to use it i still didnt see any performance gain at all. i know already that games dont use many cores but i thought i would still see a performance gain anyway with the FX being a newer cpu with different architecture? in the cpu benchmark lists that are on the net the 8150 is supposed to be better than my trusty old phenom II?
what would u guys do? stick with the 8150 for future use? or keep the 1055t.
just so u know i use my rig for gaming.
thanks
system specs first.
AMD Phenom II 1055T overclocked to 3.8gig
cooler : vendetta 2
8gig Corsair DDR3 1600MhZ
ASRock 990FX extreme 3 mobo
Gainward GTX470
120gig Mushkin Chronos SSD
1Tb 7200rpm HDD
windows 7 64bit HP
i bought, on a whim a AMD FX8150 8core. it was a really good price and i stupidly didnt do any research into it :confused: once the new CPU was in i left the stock clock speeds and ran a few benchmarks using pcmark vantage, pcmark 7 etc etc and saw absolutely no increase in performance what so ever. so, i ran a few games and monitored the FPS etc and i actually saw a drop in fps compared to my phenom II.
I tried to overclock the 8150 but the heat generation was horrendous, but for the short time i was able to use it i still didnt see any performance gain at all. i know already that games dont use many cores but i thought i would still see a performance gain anyway with the FX being a newer cpu with different architecture? in the cpu benchmark lists that are on the net the 8150 is supposed to be better than my trusty old phenom II?
what would u guys do? stick with the 8150 for future use? or keep the 1055t.
just so u know i use my rig for gaming.
thanks