AMD FX-8350 Vishera CPU Review COMMENT THREAD

[Rasparthe]

I never tried 4 sticks, but it does happen with 2 sticks above 2000+, different sticks seemed to matter little. I have a set of Transcend sticks rated at 2400 that won't run at their rated (and worse) timings and voltage. This was experienced using a MSI 990FXA-GD80 and Gigabyte 990FXA-UD3, the 1866 strap worked without problem up until it ranged up into the 2050 area, the 2133 strap would not boot.

[terrybear]

Just to confirm/dig around on the ram modual thing.

Test Rigs in reviews:

HWC
Asus Sabertooth 990fx
2 x 4 GB G.Skill TridentX DDR3-2400

Anandtech
ASUS Crosshair V Formula
4 x 4 GB G.Skill Ripjaws X DDR3-1600 9-9-9-20

Xbit labs
ASUS Crosshair V Formula
2 x 4 GB, DDR3-1866 SDRAM, 9-11-9-27 (Kingston KHX1866C9D3K2/8GX)

Hardoxx (since its sencored i believe still)
ASUS Crosshair V Formula
2 x 4 GB Corsair Vengance DDR3-1333

Toms hardware*
ASRock Fatal1ty 990FX Professional
16 GB (4 x 4 GB) G.Skill DDR3-1600, F3-12800CL9Q2-32GBZL @ DDR3-1600 at 1.5 V

*"The FX-8350 officially supports modules running at up to 1866 MT/s, so this could be a potential performance issue if the platform is bottlenecked by bandwidth. Fortunately, it's not. We ran spot-checks on several benchmarks in order to make sure our decision to use 16 GB of DDR3-1600 instead of DDR3-1866 wouldn't reflect poorly on Vishera."
Sandra 2013 Beta results showed only 1 gb/s in bandwidth less between 1600 & 1866

To me this gives kinda mixed results ... so 4 x 4 gig DDR3 1600 & 2 x 4 gig DDR3 1866 are fine? But what of 4 x 4 gig DDR3 1866 ? 2 or 4 x 8 gig of DDR3 x ?

[Razamatraz]

Yah, the 4*4 @ 1866 or higher is what was never possible on Buldozer. It looks like it's not fixed with Piledriver. 2 * 8 @ 1866 or higher? No one tests with 8gb modules.

Razz

[terrybear]

Anyone gettin the feeling that this was a limited/soft launch ?? Cause think I could find 1 for order yet ? NCIX has them listed as "backordered", memory express as "pre order" & newegg as out of stock period ..

[SKYMTL]

We use actually 1600MHz CL9.

[terrybear]

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

We use actually 1600MHz CL9.

Did you mean 2 x 8 gig. DDR3 1600 CL9 ram or ?

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by terrybear

Did you mean 2 x 8 gig. DDR3 1600 CL9 ram or ?

No. 8GB total for all dual channel systems.

[TedShackley]

I had a dream about writing this last night

I checked a review of SB vs BD vs IB yesterday, good to see that the 8core BDs hang in there for most things, and in gaming they are all tied pretty much, the 4 and 6 do alright too by scale vs the 8core

good for us intel users and for AMD

[BlueByte]

Got my 8350 today, stuck it in ramped it up to 5Ghz Did a bunch of testing and seems to be rock solid at 5Ghz. I have 32GB of 1866Mhz in it, and it does not seem to like 1866 at all with 4 sticks as noted above. Temps are 52ish.... Other then the RAM speed I am pretty pleased with it so far.

[Avenger212]

Originally Posted by BlueByte

Got my 8350 today, stuck it in ramped it up to 5Ghz Did a bunch of testing and seems to be rock solid at 5Ghz. I have 32GB of 1866Mhz in it, and it does not seem to like 1866 at all with 4 sticks as noted above. Temps are 52ish.... Other then the RAM speed I am pretty pleased with it so far.

What's your temps like? I having problems stabilizing the temperatures using my Noctua cooler when O.C.