AMD Special Edition Bulldozer FX NCIX PC System First Look Linus Tech Tips
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·2012-05-07
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today on the crazy Russians NC PC lab I
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have boxes actually I have a system hiding
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behind the boxes featuring a number of the components that are here represented
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by the boxes that the components are no longer inside because they're in the
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system so we have the Crosshair 5 formula which is a susa's republic of
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Gamers SLI Crossfire ready motherboard
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that has full support for AMD bulldozer
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FX so we've got an fx 8150 CPU in here
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cooled by the Corsair h100 using four
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fans and push pull configuration for maximum static pressure and maximum air
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flow we've also got a radon hd6970 direct cu2 from ASUS so the direct cu2
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cooler uses dual fans in order to provide better cooling than the
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reference design card you can actually run not only one but two of those cards
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in this system just by adding an additional card and upgrading the power
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supply where the ax850 is more than
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enough for a single card solution just for comfort you might want to go with
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something a little bit higher end if you go with a dual or even a triple no I
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don't think yeah this card does not support triple Graphics because it uses
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a triple slot cooler on this particular motherboard but you can still go with
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dual graphics and then you might want to go with um an HX what is it HX 1050
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these days I think the hx1000 is gone either way let's have a look at the
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system so the first thing you're going to see here is the AMD FX 8158 core
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processor so here I'm going to show you what might become your favorite
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Benchmark and that is Task Manager because it has eight threads all of
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which are pinned at 100% because we are running Prime 95 small fft in order to
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Pro put the maximum amount of stress on the CPU to make sure it's stable before
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we start any overclocking because these systems will come pre-overclocked this
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is actually going to be a special edition red painted system as you may or
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may not be able to tell at this point in time I also want to show you one other
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cool thing about the bulldozer FX CPU I'm going to stop the small fft test
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hopefully that doesn't bother crazy Russian and it's not doing anything that
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matters I don't know uh so I'm going to set it to one torture test thread to run
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and you are going to see AMD
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turbo hold on there we go
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so core clocks are up to 3.9 GHz so that
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is using their turbo core technology in
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order to provide better single-threaded performance when you're running a
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lightly threaded workload so there you go it works uh what else do we have here
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yeah let's open it up and have a look at the rest of the system config I actually
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don't know how much these are going to cost yet I don't know what the final clock speeds of the CPU going to be yet
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these are all sort of trivial details what you need to know is that it is a
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beast machine and it looks great so we've got the ax850 there there's your
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triple slot capable of five simultaneous
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outputs a uh ASUS radon 6970 and you can
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put an additional one in this lot right here actually oh can you can you okay
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apparently you can I'm getting the nod from uh crazy Russian so that's good
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we've also got a crucial M4 sat3 SSD
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installed in the top Bay and a 3 tbte storage drive that's a 128 gig right yep
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I'm getting the nod we've got 8 gigs of Corsair Vengeance RAM which can be
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upgraded to 16 gigs should you so desire we've got the h100 so you can clearly
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see the two stock Corsair fans here and then we've also got two Cooler Master
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red LED fans here which gives you that little bit of LED lighting Accent on the
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top we've got the corser h100 right here which you can actually adjust the fan
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speed on just by clicking the button so there's your low mid and your highspeed
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settings just you can see the LED illumination around it and the Crosshair
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5 formula motherboard makes a beautiful backdrop with its black overall look and
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red accents that go along with every other aspect of this system very very
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sharp looking system so thank you oh yeah we've got hey check that out we've
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got a Blu-ray uh is that a Blu-ray burner nope we've got a Blu-ray player
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DVD burner combo unit in the front to go with the ASUS and Corsair overall theme
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of this build it is an ASUS Blu-ray Drive and I think that pretty much
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covers everything I wanted to say about this Sky I look forward to getting back
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to you guys with our overclocking results with the bulldozer FX 8150 don't
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