Comment on spychip-free AMD chips from 2013
ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.net 1 week ago I think for people who don’t use highly multi-threaded tasks, the lower core count Piledriver CPU’s would be a better choice, as the 6272 is likely going to use a lot more power at idle, and each core is clocked significantly slower than a lower core count chip, exacerbating the already low single thread performance of those chips.
The desktop chips also overclocked quite well, I recall pushing my FX-6300 to 4.5ghz without much issue, and the same for the 8-core FX-8320. Though I’m unsure if Libreboot supports overclocking (if not, than having higher default clocks would be even more important, IMO).
grue@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You accidentally pasted my quote again where you meant to put the link URL. What video were you trying to cite?
Ah sorry, I meant to link this video: m.youtube.com/watch?v=6M53LdJcvOo
In the meantime I also found this video by Phil’s computer lab where he tests your CPU, and at the end concludes that, at least for gaming, the desktop CPU’s are better (but also assumes over clocking is an option, and I have since learned it’s not terribly viable to do on coreboot).