So I decided to see if a few Motherboards that I had laying around still worked, I though I would Benchmark them with Valley. Someone might find this interesting
I had a - i5 760 on an ASUS P7P550-E LX Motherboard - AMD Athlon II x 4 On a GigabyteGA-880GM-USB3 - AMD FX 4130 On a Gigabyte GA-78LMT-S2P
I used a Sapphire Dual-X R9 270x 4 GB of G.Skill RipJaws ( 2 x 2GB dimms)
Windows 10 pro + latest Drivers Tried to keep it all Fair-ish ( If the processor was overclocked, It stayed overclocked)
I added my machine in as well AMD A8-6600K on a G1 Sniper A88X ( This is my Current PC but i have a 280x as main graphics) Windows 8.1
Here is a few Pictures of the setups, Kinda had to rip out the power supply from my machine :( but gave me the opportunity to do some cable management. i5 760
I guess you now have PCI-E 3, SATA 3, and USB 3.0 support? What does your new mobo/cpu bench with when you have the R9 280X hooked up? I bet that more than makes up for the difference.
I don't have PCI-3 Support, I don't think any AMD process has support for that at the moment. But I did gain native USB 3 and Sata 3 support and the support for more that 16GB of memory (I have 32GB) I do a bechmark tonight and see how it compares
Whilst it makes little real world difference your new mobo supports FM2+ CPU's and should definately support PCI-E Gen 3.
Your experiemnt really helps demonstate why there has been little need to upgrade CPU's over the past 4/5 years. I've still got a Westmere powered workstation and a Sandybridge ITX system. Neither natively support SATA 3 or USB 3 but can with add in cards. I doubt I'd gain much for 90% of the things I do by upgrading to Skylake - maybe in a few CPU intensive games like ARMA 3 but probably not by much at high resolutions.
You are aware you are only running single channel RAM with both slots to the far right of the CPU socket installed right? Try redoing your tests with slots A2 and B2 installed instead of B1 and B2, I think your results may vary differently from just standard single channel RAM mode.
Yea, was aware. Might have to Use my LP memory this time. Due to the i5 Huge cooler I will try the test again, with another power supply. Don't fancy trying to redo my cable management.
I might do 2 benchmarks - Single Channel - one DIMM - Dual Channel
Yea, I tried to make sure I did it to all the processors. the FX would have been the only one running Dual Channel
I could add the 6850 and the 280x to the mix. - I see what I'm doing this weekend. I might also pickup some better cooling for the Athlon II x 4, and see how far i can push the overclock then try and do the same with the FX 4130
Interesting. I will have to get my 1090t @3.8ghz running this bench since it out does the 8350 by about 10%. All I really have to do is overclock my 270 to 270x speeds. Should be done in the next couple days since work things are happening.
Got the i5 to 4.25 GHz which was it normal speed until someone said you shouldn't be putting 1.45V into the processor. I have the ASUS P7P55D-E LX The baby version of you're board :)
i have a amd x4 641k 2.8ghz stock but i have it at 5.2ghz on the stock cooler, i have a post a while back..
its paired with a asus 660 and 8gb ram and im pretty sure i got very similar results to your i5 setup if not beat it on max fps at around 100.. id have to redo it to be sure though
