AMD 8150 vs AMD 8120

lostsoul62

lostsoul62

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The 8150 clocks out at 3.6 GHz and I was told that it does not need a liquid cooler if it isn't overclock. So if I take the 8120 and it clocks at 3.1 GHz and I overclock it to 3.6 GHz to make it look like a 8150 would I need a liquid cooler?
 
Just get an 8120 and overclock it. Even with air cooling and a good motherboard, you can get way past 4.0GHz with it, more like 4.5-4.8GHz.

Not sure where you are hearing the 8150 "clocks out" at 3.6, it can go way beyond 4.0 with good cooling. 3.6GHz is probably as high as you want to go on the stock cooler though.
 
Not sure where you are hearing the 8150 "clocks out" at 3.6, it can go way beyond 4.0 with good cooling. 3.6GHz is probably as high as you want to go on the stock cooler though.[/QUOTE]

The native or as you buy it in the store is set at 3.6 GHZ.
 
lostsoul62 said:
Not sure where you are hearing the 8150 "clocks out" at 3.6, it can go way beyond 4.0 with good cooling. 3.6GHz is probably as high as you want to go on the stock cooler though.
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The native or as you buy it in the store is set at 3.6 GHZ.[/QUOTE]

yep, and people have gotten them over 8GHz though, although that was using liquid nitrogen cooling (pouring it in a cup around the cpu) and it only booted and ran cpu-z to verify, stops scaling somewhere (you can't multiply 2ghz times 4 and say that's how it'll perform like if you did 3ghz time 1.333 (4ghz) which it would perform at about that number).
 
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