Wankerfx
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Well, this seems to be a notable turning point for AMD! 3.5Ghz on a quad under water is VERY impressive, considering that they could barely push 2.7Ghz with previous chips.
Phenom 9850 X4 (B3) perfromance review by Tony @XS
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I will caution EVERYONE against that DFI mobo right now. 3oh6 will back me up on this one since he has had first-hand experience with two of them and they have both been exceedingly unimpressive.
omgwtf
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Finally, a decent product from amd that will worth its value..
magictorch
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good news indeed-cant wait to see them get back in the game!
Babrbarossa
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He's got an interesting cooling loop- a barrel of rainwater
Also note all benches are run at 3.2- it would appear 3.5 is unstable
One thing that pisses me off is that NCIX is selling these chips for 50 DOLLARS cheaper to american customers- barf- what are we, chopped liver? ($247USD vs $295CAD)
Also note all benches are run at 3.2- it would appear 3.5 is unstable
One thing that pisses me off is that NCIX is selling these chips for 50 DOLLARS cheaper to american customers- barf- what are we, chopped liver? ($247USD vs $295CAD)
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chibi_man
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FINALLY... I've been waiting for a simple review on that CPU.
Looks like there might be hope after all.
Looks like there might be hope after all.
I agree. This REALLY has me PO'd. It seems NCIX likes popping up the prices for the Canadian customers and then adding an "instant rebate" a few days later. It happened with the 9800GTX cards and I bet it will happen with the B3 Phenoms.
3oh6
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keep in mind, he is using a Beta BIOS that wasn't available up until a couple days ago and running a B3 chip which could be all the difference in the world. on top of that, Tony is simply raising the multiplier...no real overclocking and the board handles that just fine. i was working with a fixed multi, B2 Phenom, and older BIOS...all kinds of differences.
Good point on that one. But Tony also mentioned that he switched to the Gigabyte 790FX mobo since there are still issues with the DFI one and all the stability tests are done with said Gigabyte mobo.
Like I said in that post: right now. It seems that there are still quite a few underlying issues with the DFI 790FX which have to be ironed out to make it the last word in 790FX mobos.
Like I said in that post: right now. It seems that there are still quite a few underlying issues with the DFI 790FX which have to be ironed out to make it the last word in 790FX mobos.
3oh6
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yup, and hopefully it is just BIOS work. if it is, then with Tony on the case, things should come around eventually.
