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Reviews hitting from the various sites. Anand seems to be the most upbeat about the whole thing. I'll post more when I read through the reviews.
But for now:
http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets...oc.aspx?i=3492
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-940,2114.html
http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA==
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Originally Posted by Anandtech
Hurray for competition!
I think the Phenom IIs are starting to look much more attractive for gamers on a budget.
Duo Core is dying off and i7 is still way to expensive for those gaming on the cheap. I'm also a little worried that i7 won't be as upgrade friendly as previous systems.
I had a feeling the 920 was locked :mad::mad::mad:
Indeed and QFT!!!! I was just about to upgrade my opy 170 so now I'll have something else to look at besides intel!Quote:
Originally Posted by taggart6
Yeah I'm a little upset by that. I guess they don't people buying 920s and turning them into 940s.Quote:
Originally Posted by Cyber
got two 940's on the way, one from MWave the other from the Egg, both ordered same time, bet the Egg delivers first....
double the chances of 4gig pelt chilled water stable:cool:
Saturday, hopefully....
laterzzzzz.............
They ship out of the same warehouse in Diamond Bar - regardless of the New Egg, City of Industry address. Mwave and New Egg are two faces of the same company.Quote:
Originally Posted by bldegle2
The Phenom IIs have a very attractive price point and the backwards compatibility for existing AM2+ board owners is a really nice feature. Looks like AMD has done well on this one.
"They ship out of the same warehouse in Diamond Bar - regardless of the New Egg, City of Industry address. Mwave and New Egg are two faces of the same company."
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
maybe I should ask the MWave to refund the extra $2, LOL....still, a better chance at a steady, stable 4 gig on pelt chilled water with two to choose from, that is all I am shooting for....
laterzzz................
Don't need no stinking H2O :D
https://www.sharkyforums.com/images/...2009/05/25.jpg
it has to be a bin issue though. some people are only getting 3.7 with their i7 920's.
How do you get the images to post?Quote:
Originally Posted by OS-Wiz
The images you wish to post must be hosted. I use the free image host site: www.photobucket.com :cool:
Ok, so who's going to be the first guinea pig, er I mean trooper to buy and report back to us?
I will be getting one once I get my tax returns:)
I think I will too, though it will be a total platform upgrade for me. Still rocking socket 939! The price of DDR3 is a turn-off though, so I may as well go ahead and do this now and not wait for AM3.
I have a motherboard that'll take the Phenom II, but I'm running at 3.0GHz@stock volts with my 9850BE right now, so I'd have to find a justification for dropping one in. Yes, it'll overclock even more than my Phenom, but the price will have to go below $200 I think in order to tempt me. I also only have one 4850 graphics card. If I get another 4850 or a card that is pushing up against the limits of the 9850 I have, I'll consider it. In the meantime, if the price of DDR3 and mobos that'll take an i7 920 drop enough, I might just jump on that in the coming months.
You can get 6gb of ddr3 for under $150, and x58 mobos for $200 now. The nehalem price premium is coming down.
don't EXPECT 4.0 gig on righteous air or water (you can 'wish', that's okay. LOL), i gots two Phenom 940's, both somewhat of a disappointment on the upper clockage and stableness...
yes, some are hitting 4.0 and beyond (air/water), but for the most part it appears stability is achieved @much lower frenquencies (IE: 3.6 to 3.8), i have seen many postages that indicate 3.6 to 3.7 as a viable clock.....
yeah, after all this time, i allowed meself to be 'hyped' on the 4.0 gig, and AMD knew it when they pimped their new stuffs.....they did the "cherry picking" dispite their claims otherwise....typical, should have known, yes, they want to keep selling stuffs of course...especially important in these more trying financial times....
SLAP ME HARD....
laterzzzz..................
Hell I would be happy,with the stock 3ghz.
I already updated the bios for it,now have to get it.
Amazon has it for $250.
updateness>>>>>
after a couple of daze of this and that, it settled in @3.82gig, 18.5 x 207...the trick was to increase Northbridge volts, allowed for LOWER Vcore and much lower full LOAD temps and get higher clockage....
my disadvantage is two fold, Vista 64bit is a bear at top end clocking (prolly lose 100 to 200 MHZ to 32bit OS), and clocking with an older sb600 chipset is not optimal....
so, for now, it is what it is, not bad at all considering.....
if you want the full potential on this chip to be realized, i would suggest the FoxCon Destroyer board, the only drawback is the lack of PCI slots (1), but there are many PCI-e cards that can work just like PCI (NIC, E-Sata to name a few), so the unused PCI-e slots can do the deed if you have more than one PCI card you gots to have....
laterzzzz.............
Plenty enough for me.
Are there going to be Phenom II tricores? I assume so once AMD starts producing them in quantity there are going to be ones with one bad core.
Personally I see no use for a 3 core cpu.