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Well BluePanda's board is no better. It blue screened on boot twice...till we cranked the RAM voltage WAAAAAY past what it really needed to be. It then proceeded to blue screen in Windows after showing no onboard LAN.

 

I'm getting pretty close to saying "crap this CPU". :doh:

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Well BluePanda's board is no better. It blue screened on boot twice...till we cranked the RAM voltage WAAAAAY past what it really needed to be. It then proceeded to blue screen in Windows after showing no onboard LAN.

 

I'm getting pretty close to saying "crap this CPU". :doh:

I never thought I'd hear you say those words!

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I wouldn't be anywhere near as mad if the motherboard vendors had a halfway decent BIOS available for this CPU. I expected to spend today having fun overclocking this beast but instead I've just been fighting to boot at anything but auto mode...

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Well here's a sample of what it does at stock speeds with my completely screwed BIOS.

 

3DMark Vantage (X3-X4 @ 3.4 GHz): http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3553389

3DMark Vantage (FX-8120 @ stock): http://3dmark.com/3dmv/3555873

3DMark06 (X3-X4 @ 3.4 GHz): http://3dmark.com/3dm06/15984837

3DMark06 (FX-8120 @ stock): http://3dmark.com/3dm06/16127995

 

3DMark03 won't submit for some reason but my old score with the Phenom II was ~96k. I get ~70k now. Why isn't Turbo Core working?

 

 

 

Note that with the Vantage tests the FPS dropped by a HUGE margin...the only reason the score is higher is the higher CPU score (which is pathetic for an "8 core" CPU). Turbo Core is clearly not all it's made up to be...

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