i am wondering if i could swap out my cpu with out having to reinstall windows. i have a 8350 installed right now but i want to put my phenom 2 1100t back in for a few tests. when i got the 8350 i replaced my mobo and reinstalled windows at the same time so i did not get the chance to test changing out cpu only.
anyone with any experience with this is welcome to comment.
There shouldn't be any issues as long as the processor is a drop-in replacement for the old one.
ok thanks will try it and post back results within an hour or 2
@datsquirrel took updating my bios O.C and a restart of windows. i am up and running again on the 1100T. successfully ran test and i am surprised as hell right now. this cpu should be given a lot more credit and a lot of love holly hell.
swapped cpu's to see which one performed better for mining zifter coins. to my surprise it is the 1100T that takes the khash/s crown from the 8350 by a long shot. my 8350 got about 620khash/s my 1100T is getting about 690 khash/s some times it hits 700khash/s but rare.
edit the 8350 was over clocked to 4.5 and my 1100t is overclocked to 4.1
They should have just shrunken the phenom 2 to 32nm instead of using the bulldozer.
:v
i totally agree and i am willing to bet that the next enthusiast chip AMD releases will see cores like the phenom 2 had and will feature 4,6,8,and10 core configurations. with 8MB or 10 MB L3 cache possibly more on the 10 core chip. i will also bet that the stock clock will drop back down to about 3600 MHz for the 10core and the 8core we will see about 4000MHz no guess on the 4 core and 6 core.
The next amd enthusiast chip is going to be built on the Zen architecture.
They got a hold of the same guy that helped AMD make the athlon 64, which smacked the P4 back in the day pretty hard.
Zen is going to be up to 95 watt TDP, if they don't change anything
The major thing with Zen is they're going to have hyperthreading, and a huge boost to IPC (preformance per clock cycle)
also, 14nm finFet.
as long as the mobo stays the same, you can totaly do it.