Home » Graphics Cards • Motherboards • Processors » AMD FX-8150 Black Edition 8-Core Processor vs Core i7-2600K Review AMD FX-8150 Black Edition 8-Core Processor vs Core i7-2600K Review Stuart Davidson October 12, 2011 Graphics Cards, Motherboards, Processors Power, Temps and Overclocking To test the power and thermal performance of the two systems we ran each at idle and full load with our cooler at full RPM. The results are shown below. CPU Idle CPU Load GPU Idle GPU Load AMD FX-8150 Temps 30°C 52°C 40°C 81°C Intel Core i7-2600K Temps 30°C 51°C 40°C 81°C Idle CPU Load CPU and GPU Load AMD FX-8150 Power 99w 239w 365w Intel Core i7-2600K Power 90w 171w 291w Overclocking the FX-8150 is a simple task thanks to its unlocked multipliers and using our liquid cooling, again at full RPM on the fans, the maximum overclock we were able to achieve is shown below. Stock Overclock AMD FX-8150 BE 200*18=3.6GHz 200*26=5.2GHz @1.5v Pages: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 Share On