The Setup
The press KIT:
The chip & Motherboard:
The Setup:
Overclocking
Next up..overclocking and benchmarks(we all love benchmarks….aint it?)
Overclocking the FX is pretty easy and no fuss affair since its an unlocked cpu. Out of the box it booted into 3.6Ghz with no fuss!
With a little bump in the multiplier and voltages i settled for a nice stable overclock of:
and being the nut i am..tried to find the absolute limit i could go on AIR;and i ended up with this:
well…since overcloking the Bulldozer was too FUN;i thought maybe i shuould list the settings i used to OC the FX to different speeds.Here are the setting..milege may vary with your Chip
| Speed | FSB | Multiplier | Vcore | LLC |
| 3973.32 MHz | 220.74 | 18 | 1.28 | Extreme |
| 4017.17 MHz | 206.1 | 19.5 | 1.42 | Normal/AUTO |
| 4355.31 MHz | 335 | 13 | 1.34 | Extreme |
| 4615.77 MHz | 200 | 23 | 1.38 | Extreme |
| 4816 MHz | 200.7 | 24 | 1.45 | Extreme |
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