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Does the FX-4100 consume less Wattage than the FX-6300 on Full-load?
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But, so many reviews are placing 6300 over the 4170 and sometimes 6300 consumes less than the 4170, but they can't put a 4100 into play?
Also, just because they are both 95W, it doesn't mean that one won't consume more than the other on extensive tests.
Thank you for the information, I will get the FX-6300.
it doesn't matter when a certain one will consume more power. The MAX they can consume is 95watts. So if the fx 6300 core parks 2 cores, then it will consume less power than the fx 4100 because only 4 cores are running and those 4 cores are clocked lower than the cores in the fx 4100.
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One thing to keep in mind is that AMD is pretty shocking rating their power draw. And the 95W isn't the max it can draw. My 6300 can put out over 130W at full load and up to 160 o/c! so i would take their power draw figures with a grain of salt. No bagging them out as i own a 6300. Most reviews i have seen put the FX-6300 around 130-140W and the FX a couple of watts lower. The only time you are going to be capped at 95 watt is if you have APM, EPU, Core c6 and all the power saving features turned on. Once those are disabled the motherboard will no longer throttle voltage/clocks, also load line calibration can greatly effect power draws.
Each peice of silicon can vary a bit as well. The best thing to do is ask a co=operative local shop if they have an FX computer set-up and ask if they are willing to run it through a killer-watt and judge power draw from there.
Each peice of silicon can vary a bit as well. The best thing to do is ask a co=operative local shop if they have an FX computer set-up and ask if they are willing to run it through a killer-watt and judge power draw from there.
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yea stock clocks don't mean much for power draw . See http://techreport.com/review/24954/amd-a10-6800k-and-a10-6700-richland-apus-reviewed/3. 160w full load x264 pass. These things draw some serious power. I got a 148w load running stock clocks encoding dvd to mp4 the other day! Up over 188W o/c to 4.3 ghz. AMD is notorious for power draw under-quotes. I crapped myself when i saw some of these numbers when i first bought my cpu. My mobo is only rated for 125W but haven't had any problems so far.
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Okay, good to note, my mobo is designed to handle the FX-8350, so the little FX-6300 might not be an issue, thus far.
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Dude i can tell you now that the 760 chipset and poor vrm's on that board are going to struggle with the 6300. I had two 760 boards previous to my 970 and both of them throttled drastically at full load. Both of them stated that they were capable of running the fx-8 series. Give it a try though as my m5a-97 is only a 4+2 power phase (yours a 4+1) and its running the fx-6300 fine! I would suggest a 970 board with 4+2 as a minimum, 6+2 optimal.
Don;t let me deter you though! I just had nghtmares trying to get any of my 760 chipped boards to stabily handle my fx-6300! It might have been asus's epu causing all the trouble on one of them though, it couldn't be switched off.
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