A12-9800 oc'ed to 4.8 on Wraith cooler

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http://wccftech.com/amd-a12-9800-apu-overclock-record-am4-platform/

I shudder to think what an FX would look like at 4.8 on a stock cooler.
Some people have the golden touch when it comes to OC'ing, that's not me.

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Excavator cores

Throws up

Although if they can get 4 cores at 4GHz+ on a 65W chip, that bodes very well for Zen. On a wraith cooler (which is about equivalent to a Xigmatek Praeton as far as I can see), 4.8GHz is very impressive indeed.

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Indeed, but we have no idea how Zen is going to handle clock speed at all since a lot of changes are going to be made, including going from CMT to SMT

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Yea but I believe Kavari and A12's are already SMT.....it's not much to go on but i am sooo tired of politics.

Would have liked to have seen what they could have done with an L3 cache

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I am pretty sure A12 isn't SMT, but I could be wrong, but wouldn't this be like saying that Intel Core i5 is SMT, and if so, I guess what I know about SMT is out the window.

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Kaveri and the new bristol ridge are both CMT, not SMT.

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SMT = Hyperthreading. So no, the i5 line of desktop CPUs don't have SMT.

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SMT...my bad

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Will the A12-9800 actually have an unlocked multiplier?

Also, I know that Bristol Ridge is an updated Excavator/Carrizo core, but doesn't it still use 28nm SHP? You were certainly lucky if you could get past that 4.5ghz marker - and if a change of socket makes that much of a difference that you can surpass that mark, why is the "new" Athlon x4 950 clocked the same as the Athlon x4 845?

Poppy-cock, I say!

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Polaris having a limited OC overhead under air and stock bios makes me doubt about Zen overclockability as they're both using same fabrication node.

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I just hope that they were holding back and Polaris had more OC potential, I know with a different voltage configuration that it fared much better.

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This is cool. Nice sneak peak into what the last generation of Bulldozer inspired parts will bring. Interesting to see the FCH and IMC are essentially Carrizo's but a bit updated.

The really interesting thing about all this is the core voltage itself. 1.325v for 4.8GHz looks really good when compared to the last few generations, however it makes it appear as though AMD decided to continue with clock scaling and not IPC. I had figured Excavator would show otherwise.