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TigerDirect has Asus' Sabertooth X79 motherboards for $99.96 with coupon code TCT156550. Offer is good until 5/12/2015 11:59 PM ET with the usual proviso of "While supplies last" http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2076258&CatId=9784 I'm not sure ...

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When's the "Hot Chips" or whatever show held? Don't they usually do announcements at stuff like that? Hot Chips is in August, usually towards the end of the month. This year it's held from the 23rd - 25th. Yep, you're exactly right, Hot Chips is definitely a platform for revealing one's n...

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Oh, too bad... Yes, I should have made it clearer: this is TigerDirect US. After stating that the FX-8370E is "much more expensive" I thought I better double check that, and it is: $190 for the FX-8370E from newegg. But I saw that TigerDirect is offering these with a $50 rebate, which brin...

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I just noticed this deal so figured I'd share it. Admittedly the $90 price is with a $25 rebate so for those with a fear of rebates there's nothing new here - the pre-rebate price hasn't changed (it's still $115). http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9494388&...

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For anyone still looking for one of these little chips, TD now has them for $99 straight - no coupon or anything else required:
http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=9494387&CatId=7339

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Looks like it's gone up to $120 now which kinda takes away some of the shine as you're no longer under the mental barrier of $100 (with coupon). Especially when for $5 more you can step up to the FX-8310

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Chuckaluphagus wrote:
Thank you for posting this. I've been doing more work with virtual machines these days, and been thinking that what I really wanted was more cores to throw at them. This makes for a reasonable upgrade for my old system (from a Phenom II 965).

Glad to help!

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I just noticed that Tiger Direct has the AMD FX-8300 for $109.99 which sounds like a pretty good deal, especially if you've already got a compatible motherboard. It is an OEM chip that you're getting so no stock HSF, but that does give you the opportunity to buy exactly what you want for processor c...

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Yeah, I noticed that too. So much for the supposed big reveal on September 1st...

Like you say though, still interested. Clearly I just can't help myself

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I wonder if Centaur's new core will have the option to use the instruction set of the underlying RISC core like their old Nehemiah did. I always thought that was so interesting: set the ALTINST bit in the FCR, execute your special jump instruction and from then on you use AIS instructions. Then when...

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I wonder how accurate that article is... Why would the E version of a SKU be the same price as a non-E? Surely fewer dies are capable of running within a 95W TDP vs 125W, right? What incentive would a user (or a system builder) have for choosing the higher TDP variant? Almost gotta be a typo. Or ma...

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Wouldn't be surprised if many of the 125W chips are running lower than rated TDP. If you've got a 100w part, and 125 is the next standard bin, well... in in it goes! The difference between the 'E' and 'standard' chips may not be anywhere near the implied 30W. That's a good point. I imagine those bi...

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Creating a new chipset for AM3+ shouldn't be too hard for AMD, although yeah, there would be little incentive for them to do so since they seem to have admitted that Bulldozer was a failure and it would be better to pour resources into their upcoming big ARM and x86 cores. They have all the buildin...

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POWER8 is the only architecture that I know of that exceeds Intel's Haswell design in terms of IPC. IBM's design runs about twice as fast as comparable Xeon's but a good chunk of that speed boost is in radically higher clock speeds. Yeah, IBM's POWER designs seem to be engineered to be both braniac...

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http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20140820105340_AMD_to_Cut_Prices_on_FX_9000_Other_FX_Processors_New_Prices_Revealed.html I wonder how accurate that article is... Why would the E version of a SKU be the same price as a non-E? Surely fewer dies are capable of running within a 95W TDP vs 125W...

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Piledriver is pretty much at single-thread performance parity with the Phenom II when you take the higher clock speeds into account. Yeah true. And if we assume that the clock frequency ceiling for a Phenom II X6 is ~4GHz and the similar ceiling for a Vishera is ~5GHz then you do come out ahead for...

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But 220W... that's on par with big iron chips like IBM's POWER8. Admittedly there's a fair bit more harware muscle on that die though. Actually, the FX 9950 at 220W consumes more power than the POWER8 which is a 190W part. Right you are. I assumed POWER8 would be ~250W. But 190W, that's actually pr...

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I remember in March/April this year Micro Center had the FX-8320s for $100. Hopefully the price reduction will be on the whole line - it would be nice to see that price again, but across all {e-,re}tailers ;) It does seem like AMD's current management has chalked up Bulldozer and the derivatives as ...

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According to hexus the FX-9590 will go down to £175 (whatever that will translate to stateside): http://hexus.net/tech/news/cpu/73365-amd-set-slash-fx-cpu-pricing-september-1/ So apparently it'll happen right after the Haswell-E arrives. I have to admit that I find the FX-9000 chips interesting from...

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I'm guessing that the Overclockers UK site is referring to the fact that AMD's FX series of CPUs (both Bulldozder and Piledriver based) support memory clock multipliers up to 1200MHz (6:1 ratio) for an effective DDR3 speed of 2400MHz. So you won't need to increase the HyperTransport clock to use mem...

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I just came across this job post at AMD for a Technical Architect: http://goo.gl/VvIXi and thought it was interesting because it lists under "must have" skills and experience: ⋅ High performance ARM processor and ARM system integration experience ⋅ Experience with ARM p...

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Okay, we're back alive and working again. It seems that the SPI ROM had lost all of its contents. Relfashing the board externally with the latest BIOS brought it back to life. Still, not a good sign... So, I then tried with all the RAM timings set manually in the BIOS but that didn't change anything...

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As an interesting test, you could pull the CPU and power the board on. Wait some amount of time then replace the CPU and start up the system. If time has run fast, the you know for sure that it is a hardware issue with the South Bridge. Now, if it doesn't run fast, this doesn't rule out anything ot...

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After a bit more Googling around, it seems that other people have had similar issues with M3A/M4A motherboards. A couple of people claim to have fixed it by manually setting the memory timings?!?? (Makes no sense unless there's some sort of bizarre BIOS bug that causes the automatic memory timings ...

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Re-reading your OP and looking at that diagram, I'd say this strengthens the case for the Analog portion being fine; once the system is powered up, something in the Digital portion is either malfunctioning (hardware problem) or getting mis-configured (BIOS problem). I don't think we can really say ...

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The RTC does behave the same way under both Linux and Windows. Here's a short video showing it under Windows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZbKETHaqDs I've tried a few different DIMMs in the board but they all have the same behaviour (and they all work and pass memtest in this and another DDR2 boa...

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Sounds like the quartz crystal that regulates the RTC is damaged or defective. I'm not sure what you mean by: "It seems like once the system idles and there's no real activity though it settles to counting in twos (which is by far the most common seen behaviour)." though. If you're sittin...

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I thought that at first too, but when power is removed from the system and the RTC is running off the button cell it seems to track time normally. I'll double check again tonight, but I remember testing it fairly early on... It would be good if it was the crystal - it's easy to replace. I suppose I ...

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It's actually even more irregular than I made it out at the start - it can occasionally get incremented by one which can change it from counting evens to counting in odds, or it can even jump three seconds at times as well. It seems like once the system idles and there's no real activity though it s...

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