The drivers used practically every review out there are of the 8.36 revision, it sucks to be frank.
The 8.37 is 10-15% faster in certain games. The coming revisions are expected to improve this even further, while the 8.38/39 will make another leap in performance.
Wait for the reviews showing the actual performance of the card...//Andreas
What many seem to have neglected is that there is an evident problem with odd CPU multipliers. AMD has no support for "half" memory multipliers (4.5/5.5/6.5/etc), which means that you will actually not be able to run memories at their full potential when using processors with odd multipliers (7/9/11/etc):
But wouldn't that significantly reduce the speed of the processor? If so it will take longer to perform the tasks, and that pretty much cancels out the longer battery life... No?
No, you don't sacrifice any performance, You just try to find the lowest possible voltage at which the processor will work just as well as it did before. Processors are simply set to work at a voltage at which all of them work well, but in fact many of them work just fine at lower voltages to.
Some of you talk about Intel Speedstep technology and similar which lowers the frequency and voltage when suitable, that is not the same thing. This should be considered an improvement of that as you try to go even further with even lower voltages. Of course without loosing any performance nor causing any instability.
There is no performance hit here. The thing with undervolting is trying to find the sweetspot for the processor. I.e. the lowest possible voltage at which the processor works just as it is suppose to. If you are experiencing problems you've gone too far. Some users have managed to go as far as 30% with their Pentium Ms.
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The drivers used practically every review out there are of the 8.36 revision, it sucks to be frank.
... //Andreas
The 8.37 is 10-15% faster in certain games. The coming revisions are expected to improve this even further, while the 8.38/39 will make another leap in performance.
Wait for the reviews showing the actual performance of the card
"Only a matter of time before some nutter with liquid nitrogen hits 4-5GHz"
Already been done quite a few times by myself and colleagues, not to mention the huge crowd over at XS.org ;-)
What many seem to have neglected is that there is an evident problem with odd CPU multipliers. AMD has no support for "half" memory multipliers (4.5/5.5/6.5/etc), which means that you will actually not be able to run memories at their full potential when using processors with odd multipliers (7/9/11/etc):
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http://www.nordichardware.com/Reviews/?page=3&skr
I've updated with Fahrenheit values and made it a bit more obvious that the other values were in Celsius. Hope this clears things up a little.
But wouldn't that significantly reduce the speed of the processor? If so it will take longer to perform the tasks, and that pretty much cancels out the longer battery life... No?
No, you don't sacrifice any performance, You just try to find the lowest possible voltage at which the processor will work just as well as it did before. Processors are simply set to work at a voltage at which all of them work well, but in fact many of them work just fine at lower voltages to.
Some of you talk about Intel Speedstep technology and similar which lowers the frequency and voltage when suitable, that is not the same thing. This should be considered an improvement of that as you try to go even further with even lower voltages. Of course without loosing any performance nor causing any instability.
There is no performance hit here. The thing with undervolting is trying to find the sweetspot for the processor. I.e. the lowest possible voltage at which the processor works just as it is suppose to. If you are experiencing problems you've gone too far. Some users have managed to go as far as 30% with their Pentium Ms.