11,000+ Overclocked FX 8120/8150 "Club"

[David (PassMark)]

Also just a note.

The CPUMark numbers for these CPUs tend to be a bit lower overall in PerformanceTest V8 compared to V7.

So a result in the 9000s with PT8 is more impressive than a 9000 result in PT7.

[aplusj]

Hi,

I am currently using a M5a97 asus mother board with 16GB DDR3 1600 Kingston Hyper ram and a FX 8120 unlocked cpu. Best I have been able to do is reach a stable 4.1Ghz. If I go higher the system errors out. I score 9050 on passmark. I feel this is great! Would I like a cpu that scores 20,000....yes but even though I can afford it I will not purchase it for it is an absolute waste for what I do with my system. I think the 8120 is an awesome choice for most end users.

[Viking1962]

I got my AMD FX-8350 x8 few days ago and overclocked it to 4,62GHz. Search for BL703292 and you find it. I use PT 7.0 Build 1031

Its funny that my CPU beats another FX-8350 clocked at 4.91GHz . I got 19009,5 points, not bad for a 4,62GHz Vishera, eh? I wish I got better total points. My harddisk isnt what it has been. Its time to get a SSD drive as system drive I think

[Viking1962]

And soon even better FX out (next mounth I hope) The FX-8350. This is my next CPU and it will replace my old Phenom II 955BE at 3.6 GHz (overclocked)

[DTarve23]

As a matter of fact I could buy 2 8150s and 1 8120 for the price of 1 Intel 3930k

[DTarve23]

Scores above 11,000 sound good until you look at a chip like the Intel i7-3930K. Where the top CPUmark is 20,422.


I have to say those scores sound really nice when you consider that the FX 8150 is less than half the price and yet I can get over 3/4th of the score of the 3930k

[Viking1962]

I found the file without any problem

[DTarve23]

I apologize DTFX4399 is the name you use to search for my computer

[David (PassMark)]

ID DTFX4399 wouldn't appear to be a valid baseline number. It isn't a number for a start.

[Viking1962]

Nice, I hope next FX-8350 will do even better score than 8150

[DTarve23]

Not trying to bring up and old thread Just thought I would chime in and join the club and post my 8150 score of 16,062 baseline ID DTFX4399

[phoenix4140]

That'd def. be awesome for V8, as far as adding a Direct2D test. Sounds like it would be really great to have included with the new PM test. With it being often CPU bound, it kind of caught me off guard a little because I thought GPU would be in there as far as hardware acceleration.

All I really tried to do was tweak the Win registry to see if I could take some of the GDI limitations off, with no luck. lol. But I found out how Win 7 GDI works a little better, so not a waste of time. Only changing my Win 7 theme to one of the simpler themes ended up increasing my vector test scores while decreasing the rest.

I'm really interested to see how Passmark scores will increase the next year or two, with SATA 3 (SSD's have never been faster) becoming more widely available, with PCIe 3.0 (more bandwidth there), and the "core race." I remember when 920's first came out, and I was so amazed at the overclocks, scores, and performance I got from them, then. lol.

[David (PassMark)]

We'll be adding a Direct2D test in PerformanceTest V8. We were playing with some possible code yesterday in fact. As far as we can tell Direct 2D is often CPU bound. It isn't something you can use with PerformanceTest V7.

[phoenix4140]

You told me about possibly being 5th and posted that someone actually got first with a score past 12,000. So I just HAD to attempt a higher score. So I did, and got it past 12,000 with a little more effort (usually use the Physics test initially to start finding my stable voltages).

Seemed like my GFX card began to bottleneck on one of the 3D tests, with it overclocked that much more. Just wish there was a way to replace GDI+ with Direct2D in Win 7 so my 2D scores wouldn't be so low. Saw that someone had a really wickedly high score on 2D with one of the top GPUs but they had a LOT of memory installed on their system (if I remember right).

[David (PassMark)]

> Think that brings me in 3rd for the 8120 with 11,254

There are couple of others in between. So maybe 5th position.