Trinity Review

[Rasparthe]

Thx for the advice, always do when I get new hardware and the FM1 was very finicky as well.

I'm sure the 7Ghz was on LN2, FM1 could do 6 under LN2, and 1Ghz increase with an APU onboard would be very interesting.

[great_big_abyss]

Originally Posted by Shadowmeph

The trinitys are using new motherboards or something?

Ya, new socket, new chipset.... Actually quite a few people (including myself) are a little upset that they decided on a socket change this gen.

[terrybear]

Originally Posted by great_big_abyss

Ya, new socket, new chipset.... Actually quite a few people (including myself) are a little upset that they decided on a socket change this gen.

Yes it kinda stinks like the s754 to s939 incident ... BUT amd's doing like it back then FM2 will be suported for 2 more gens of A series cpu's ...

And quite honestly, with alot of these FMx series boards price points .... IF they where $150+ boards like the AM3+'s I think i'd be more pissed off about it yes ... but i seen a msi FM2 board on ncix i believe for $50.

This is why I told folks whom posted on here recently about FM1 builds to wait for the FM2 boards & cpu's this month.

[terrybear]

Originally Posted by great_big_abyss

LN2? Would have been cool if 7GHZ was on plain water. Forgive my pun.

Originally Posted by Rasparthe

Thx for the advice, always do when I get new hardware and the FM1 was very finicky as well.

I'm sure the 7Ghz was on LN2, FM1 could do 6 under LN2, and 1Ghz increase with an APU onboard would be very interesting.

From the 3-5 online reviews I read ... with the stock/weak included cpu cooler most of the a10 5800's hit 4.4/4.5 ghz .... but I believe in the 1 review when they stuck 1 of the copper pipped coolers from like the black edition cpu's on it it generated enough cooling to make it hit 5 ghz.

So for a $120 on average cpu to be able to hit 4.4-5ghz range with onboard gpu/apu thats not to shabby & could generate some decent preformance.

Hopefully sky in his (i asume its him doing it) review can explore maybe oc'ing it with both the stock cooler & a few others ...

[Rasparthe]

I'm excited to see what kind of performance increase the new architecture will give but also am pretty ticked about moving sockets. Usually there is all the usual bull about new chipset, new features, new reasons you need the socket but they are using the same chipsets, with the exception of the new A85, for socket FM2.

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by terrybear

Hopefully sky in his (i asume its him doing it) review can explore maybe oc'ing it with both the stock cooler & a few others ...

I will be using a TRUE 120. Potential was OK on the CPU and quite good on the GPU.

One other thing I want to mention is that most boards have an issue with enabling C6 State with AMD's Overdrive utility installed. The system will refuse to boot into windows.