AMD Phenom II 940 "Xtremely" Benchmarked

[jimmysmitty]

Are you feeling upset that your Q6600 and most other Intel Core 2 Quads are not up to par with the Phenom II? Don't feel too bad the AM2+ Phenom II isn't meant to compete with the enthusiast Core i7.

Not really no. I feel that my purchase of the Q6600 was a damn good purchase considering it performs great, OCs easily and was pretty cheap too.

I would peronally hope that Phenom II would finally be able to out pace a 2 year old chip. If it didn't it would be even more of a dissapointment really.

 

[veyron1001]

Wow, they finally can compete with Q6600 that is now at the end of its life.

I wont be impressed until they compete with core i7.

That is quite a big claim from you. Price/performance is where its at and Amd is the better buy.

 

[dattimr]

http://www.ecs.com.tw/ECSWebSite/NewsRoom/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=1228&MenuID=13&LanID=0

Taipei, Taiwan, December23, 2008 – With innovative products that span multiple target market, Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the world’s leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system and notebook manufacturer, today releases the A790GXM-AD3 Black Series motherboard disclosing the extraordinary gaming performance of AMD’s latest Dragon platform.

First AM3 board. Not so stylish, but better than most AM2 crap (especially if you remember it's from ECS).

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Yea, I hear in the next month or so, theyll be flooding in with AM3 mobos. I hope they give a full market cover, from top to bottom

 

[Reynod]

ECS ... bottom of the barrel.

PCChips ... I still remember the fake VX chipset and the fake 15nS cache.

Mebbe after 12 years I hold a grudge too long eh?


No thanks.

 

[EXT64]

Well, I like that they took power circuitry cooling seriously.

 

[dattimr]

ECS ... bottom of the barrel.

PCChips ... I still remember the fake VX chipset and the fake 15nS cache.

Mebbe after 12 years I hold a grudge too long eh?


No thanks.

Some friend of mine bought himself a X48 + DDR3 based ECS mobo.

Oh, how he dreamed of easy overclocking and rock solid stability.

Go figure.

From what I remember, he rebooted every 15 minutes at MSN.

Besides, his DDR3 1333 MHz sticks couldn't run even at 1066.1.

Good part is that I sold him my Maximus Extreme for quite some $.

 

[dattimr]

Well, I like that they took power circuitry cooling seriously.

Should be like that always. I agree. It's not *that* pretty, but it looks decent enough.

 

[Reynod]

Discloses Extraordinary Gaming Performance !!

ROFL

 

[dattimr]

Discloses Extraordinary Gaming Performance !!

ROFL

You should read the rest. :lol: Well, actually, it's enough.

Better read some ASUS ROG mobos' press releases.

 

[Reynod]

Yeah ... sorry ... your right ... even the best manufacturers are easy targets for trashy English.

Big difference between ASUS / GIGABYTE / ABIT and ECS though.

You get what you pay for.

 

[dattimr]

What? I wasn't joking about the ROG ones!

Indeed. Pal, I might go Intel just because of GA-EP45-UD3P.

Oh, what a board... Come on, deliver something like that for AM3.

 

[spathotan]

Actually the last few waves of ECS boards (the Black label ones) have been pretty good looking with modest reviews. The spacing on those pcie slots is good, and I like the mosfet/nb cooling piece. Angled SATA ports is also a +1 to me. Ive only owned one ECS board, it was an old Nforce 4, was a solid board never had any issues.

Anyways, ill more likely be waiting for Gigabyte, MSI or Foxconn. Ive had enough of ASUS.

 

[The_Blood_Raven]

As long as there is an AM3 Foxconn Destroyer II board then I'll be happy. I usually stay away from the flashy boards, but that thing is a monster!

Edit: Just look at what the board comes with, all 6 SATA connectors that's a 1+ in my book right there!

 

[spathotan]

Yea the Foxconn Destroyer is an awesome board. Too bad its an nvidia chipset.

Speaking of high end foxconn, the Bloodrage X58 is finally for sale on newegg. It looks a little bit more cramped than the earlier "prototype" model, espically at the NB.

 

[yipsl]

First AM3 board. Not so stylish, but better than most AM2 crap (especially if you remember it's from ECS).

Yes, but it's from ECS. Doesn't ECS also do PC Chips? Learned about them the hard way back in Pentium days and got burned again in the K62 days, then quickly moved over to ASUS.

I stopped getting Athlon X2 motherboard combos at Fry's later on because they were either ECS or outdated MSI Nvidia 405 chipsets. Instead, I just spent a bit more at Newegg for ASUS or Gigabyte boards.

Am I the only one who wants the recession to end so I can build a new PC in 2009? The way it's going, I'll have to stick to my plan of 2010 for an AM3 Phenom II.

ECS ... bottom of the barrel.

PCChips ... I still remember the fake VX chipset and the fake 15nS cache.

Mebbe after 12 years I hold a grudge too long eh?


No thanks.

If it's PC Chips, grudges can be held for a lifetime. I still hold grudges against "Chip Smart", which isn't even in business. They flogged barely working returned dreck as new (not even what I'd call reconditioned). They also heavily pushed PC Chips in their combos.

The only thing their low prices ever got me in 1996 was a Bangles CD in the CD-ROM drive I got off of a sale table. Everything else just ended up costing me more money somewhere else. Two bad mobos, one bad CD-ROM and a 14" monitor that died on me after a few months. Fooled me twice and that was enough.

Most of the other small shops that were good closed. Then Fry's opened, which can be a good deal sometimes, but nothing beats Newegg.

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Heres something interesting http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=471056

 

[spathotan]

**** ram config in that cpuz

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

A lil different, but if you can do this, then the 920 looks promising as well

 

[blackpanther26]

looks like you can get a lot even if the multi was locked. cool.

 

[jimmysmitty]

Weird thing is that Phenom itself had problems OCing the main clock and it was the BEs with the unlocked multi that could OC much higher.

The fact that they did something that allows a 350MHz base clock speed like that is quite amazing. Or the system got it wrong.....

 

[amdfangirl]

Am I the only one who wants the recession to end so I can build a new PC in 2009? The way it's going, I'll have to stick to my plan of 2010 for an AM3 Phenom II.

If it's PC Chips, grudges can be held for a lifetime. I still hold grudges against "Chip Smart", which isn't even in business. They flogged barely working returned dreck as new (not even what I'd call reconditioned). They also heavily pushed PC Chips in their combos.

I like recession, less people buy stuff, stuff becomes cheaper then I buy stuff!!

If it's cheaper, there's a reason =).

 

[JAYDEEJOHN]

Heres another LN2 run http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=471470

Notice the HT link? Too bad Toms couldnt understand this......

 

[jimmysmitty]

^So why was that one using the multiplier for the OC instead of the base clock? I understand the 200MHz base clock but 350MHz seems weird to me.

Besides why would you want to lower your HTT speeds when OCing? To me that would affect the CPUs performance in some areas. Then again its only for memory.

Wounder if being able to lower the QPi would allow higher Core i7 OCs....

 

[amdfangirl]

^ It might be similar to the Hypertransport frequency limit. No harm in lowering it, only servers benefit from this.

350Mhz? is that the clock multi?