AMD Phenom II 940 "Xtremely" Benchmarked

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Dont assume Im spinning, or Im a fanboy. This is about AMD, not that theyll ever do anything for me, other than provide possibly a decent PC experience. But, since we need competition as consumers, and I like PC gaming, and my PC activities, its alwaus better to save a few bucks, even if this means something "new" is only comparable to something "old", but, since its still the main focus as to my PC experience, unlike i7, it competes bang for buck, and that means, cheaper
 
yea. if only there could be an agreement with AMD and their chipset like the Intel deal with the X58. i have led a charmed co-existence with nForce boards but by no means is that the majority.
 
The last Nvidia chipset that wasnt buggy pieces of coin-flip garbage was Nforce5. Nforce 4 was also a solid chipset. Ive owned boards with both chipsets as well as two different revision EVGA 680i's, both of them were pure garbage.
 


What HSF do you have? I live in AZ where it can hit 120f, on very bad summer days, and it still never hits past 35c idle and thats OCed to 3GHz. And no I don't have the AC running 24/7. I just am lucky to not have it extremely hot in my house all the time. But when it does get hot my GPU doesn't like it much. Fan goes crazy.



jimmysmitty, what else? Use it for everything since I got my Gmail account with it.



You kinda hit a question I had. Thats some damn powerful and fast memory to be using compared to everything else. I was woundering if that would make any difference but have seen ppl state that only up to DDR2 1066 make a difference with Phenoms. Then again Phenom II seems to be a different chip really. Hits higher clock speeds, seems to OC better and somehow is able to OC the base clock easier than Phenoms could.

Something smells a bit fishy about it but we don't have long to see what it could be, right?
 


It's 6:53 a.m. here and I'm on break at work. I'll be here till around noon. Won't get to quaff a nice British ale until later. Working at night on holiday is always a nuisance, but I've been doing it for over ten years now.

My New Year's wish is to be doing the same thing in 2010 and to be looking forward to a nice Phenom II rig. In 2009, I'm going to just finally get that 24" LCD and a couple of terabyte drives and say no to CPU or major GPU upgrades.

 
the dude stating his 9950 BE is a better performer than his q6600 sitting on a p35 board is pure crap. he either cant set up a system or is dropping fantard lies.

"You are also missing part of his point, actually something that many people seem to miss. I am not the first person who finds their AMD platform running a bit "cleaner" than their previous Q6600 rig. As I stated before I still have my Q6600/P35 combo sitting in the closet and would surely be running that instead if I liked it better. I am going to turn it into a crunching rig when I get around to it but I am sticking with my current rig for gaming for the moment."
 
if all he runs are things optimized to run on multiple threads maybe. sounds to me more like a "this Chevy just feels faster than a Ford" thing
 
previous to i7 air cooling is better then water many times, only when you pack a box with lots of hot gpu's and few case fans does water start to come into play

4.4ghz on air with qx9650 is childplay - ok it is the edge but hey 4.6ghz on water is too hot and high the voltage is too high.

i7 change all that, lower voltage and higher speeds means water comes in to play in major way

oveclock away!

shipping (providing a system not for yourself) a 100% stable system on air over 4ghz and 3 year warranty used be ballsy then others see its done and copy i think its almost mainstream

seeing as we been shipping 4ghz+ systems on air for over 4 years

anyways..... ithought throw that in...so clock away
 
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