On Friday, January 13, 2012 06:09 PM C wrote:
On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 23:20, Ruediger Meier
wrote: On Friday 13 January 2012, Haro de Grauw wrote:
Dennis, I certainly take on board your points on cache, FSB speed, etc. In the balance of things, and having read a few reviews and comparisons, AMD's FX4100 (4x3.6GHz) looks like a fair deal right now for €110.
You could also consider Intel's Dual Cores i3 or i5 in that price region. I'd expect them to be faster for a single thread. And they take only 65 Watt instead of 95. Less heat and noise.
Think very carefully before you go out and buy the FX4100. In ALL the tests I've seen so far, it has significantly underpreformed.... so much that the AMD dual cores beat it out in almost every test. Even overclocked by 1GHz, it still can't compare.
C.
There are some useful user reviews by experienced overclockers at newegg.com. What I gather is that overclocked it performs about on par with a mid-range Deneb. One reviewer who tests all the models puts it at ~75% clock comparison which fits the ~1GHz spread. Not surprising as it's a first generation Bulldozer, so it's value priced. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org