FM1, Interesting new platform?

[Dirk Broer]

I just can't believe my luck: I scored an AMD A8-3820! And for a decent price as well....
It seems that the FM1 stocks are being cleared, as I also managed to obtain the king of ASUS FM1 mobo's, the F1A75-V EVO, for a price below 90 Euros!
If I can't install Ubuntu on this combination, I will throw the windows open and go back to the camp of Gates and Balmer.

If Ubuntu settles well and I win the lottery this month I will also buy the Gigabyte and Asrock top FM1 mobo's and stick them with A8-3820s.
If the price is big enough I will repeat it with the FM2 mobos of the same companies together with a trio of A10-5700s.
Then I will make ASUS happy by buying a pile of HD 6670s and start experimenting with Triple and Quad CrossfireX.

But first things first: installing Ubuntu (or any other flavor of 64-bit Linux) on the F1A75-V EVO/A8-3820 combo...

[Dirk Broer]

Well, no price in the lottery this month but the F1A75-V EVO compares to the F1A75 like a tiger to a pussy.
The A8-3820 should, like its A6-3500 brother, be hard to overclock and on the F1A75 it was indeed so.
The F1A75-V EVO overclocks like a dream, and 3 Ghz is no problem for the A8-3820 (nominally 2500 Mhz and 2800 Mhz in turbo)
The only thing holding me back seems the Corsair Vengeance 1866 memory, that has trouble reaching that speed (at least when a VGA cable is attached -needed for the KVM switch-)
Might want to swap that for my G.Skill 2133 memory and my A8-3870K currently in the Gigabyte GA-A75M-UD2H mobo and connect to standalone DVI monitor to see where it ends.

[Dirk Broer]

AMD Dual Graphics at work
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The A8-3870K/HD 6670 combo doing a WCG WU each (taking two not fully taxed CPU cores with them)
with two MindModelling WUs taking it easy on the other two cores (also running WUProp and FreeHAL for the fun of it)