Phenom II: An AMD that actually is on the "buy" list!

[pwalker1]

I will be getting one once I get my tax returns

[r'aggro]

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.

[anubis44]

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.

[fluffmonster]

You can get 6gb of ddr3 for under $150, and x58 mobos for $200 now. The nehalem price premium is coming down.

[bldegle2]

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..................

[Cyber]

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.

[bldegle2]

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.............

[Cyber]

Plenty enough for me.

[drdoom]

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.

[Cyber]

Personally I see no use for a 3 core cpu.

[Gunslash]

I think I will skip this generation of CPUs...my current one's still plenty fast.
I do appreciate AMD finally getting back into the ballgame, lets just hope they can have these sell well.
if the Athlon 64s didn't come out a few years back we'd still be stuck with an overpriced intel pentium 4 reiteration of one sort of another.

[iamsostupid]

it's a great jump from K8-like performance to penryn-like performance without having to swap motherboards. but i agree. conroe/kentsfield arch is good enough and nehalem is not the leap intel said it would be, particular for its cost.

[Cyber]

Off topic.Does anyone remember what the FX-60 sold for?

[pwalker1]

Off topic.Does anyone remember what the FX-60 sold for?

When it was new around $900 street price. They are hard to find these days, and still fetch a nice price. Being the best cpu you can get for socket 939.

[Cyber]

Wow and people now think, that putting out $300 for a Quad is too much?

I have that FX,got it in 07 for $350 along with a free mobo and case.