AMD Phenom II 940 "Xtremely" Benchmarked

[unclefester]

Hellboy, funny you should mention the Trident card. I just pulled 1 from my system. It is a 4Mb Jaton 9685 Trident Video Accelerator, I had to use it during EVGA step-up, meh.. what a long 2 weeks. LOL

 

[Hellboy]

Hellboy, funny you should mention the Trident card. I just pulled 1 from my system. It is a 4Mb Jaton 9685 Trident Video Accelerator, I had to use it during EVGA step-up, meh.. what a long 2 weeks. LOL

Wow, a top of the range super deluxe model with retention screws and heat sink...

Gawd i remember when a 1mb ISA t8900 was the dogs...

oh well, reminiscing..

 

[roofus]

there is some thing up with the link on the inquirer page, but according to them it looks good

"The team also managed to show off the processor's overclocking ability taking it all the way to 3.5GHz (that's a 900MHz overclock), at the same time overclocking memory to DDR3-1600 speeds. The performance jump was almost linear.

The Phenom II X4 910 is expected to be the 'slowest' Phenom II X4 in AMD's portfolio, which of course is good publicity for AMD, but bad for business, as this processor is exceeding the current high-end 940's performance. Knowing DDR3 offers such a jump in system scores, users may shy away from their current 940 and 920 editions"

Be quite something if it were true but I wouldn't believe Inquirer if they told me that my house was on fire if smoke was rolling out the windows. I used to like them but they really went fanboi over there.

 

[roofus]

Oh, my, who wanna get an AM3 Phenom II plus an AGP slot?!

http://www.forumpcs.com.br/galeria/albums/userpics/20281/24_AM2NF3-VSTA.jpg

http://www.forumpcs.com.br/noticia.php?b=249980 (in Portuguese).

Is there any way for AMD to forbid them to make boards with their socket? What a stupid idea lol

 

[rangers]

i dont think the inquirer get enough credit, just because they dont like nvidia does not make them fanboys

 

[Dekasav]

They're more like anti-Nvidiaboys.

 

[uguv]

Reverse Hyperthreading

K10 breaks 30k in 3DMark06

Still claim they don't get enough credit?

 

[rangers]

can you not find something a little more up to date

 

[uguv]

I don't really frequent the site, mainly due to stories like the ones I linked above, but I'll see what gems they've released recently.

This one about a 10.2ghz Nehalem to launch in 2005 is one of my favorite oldies though.

 

[Reynod]

The Inq is a tech tabloid site.

If you don't understand what that particular media concept is then I guess you should stay away ... it has been known to suck a few people in.

I find the story titles are quite humorous ... well thought out really.

Remember it is supposed to be funny ... and appeal to geeks.

Facts AND Friction ...

Like when was the last time a story at THG or Anandtech made you laugh ??

Rob W is the only staffer here with a sense of humour ...

 

[roofus]

I guess when you put it that way reynod it makes sense. The scary part is some people take what they say seriously. For me personally, they hold zero credibility so I have a bad habit of scoffing when people dropping Inquirer links like it represents anything. Much like AMD purists scoff at [H]ardcrap.

 

[rangers]

The Inq is a tech tabloid site.

If you don't understand what that particular media concept is then I guess you should stay away ... it has been known to suck a few people in.

I find the story titles are quite humorous ... well thought out really.

Remember it is supposed to be funny ... and appeal to geeks.

Facts AND Friction ...

Like when was the last time a story at THG or Anandtech made you laugh ??

Rob W is the only staffer here with a sense of humour ...

yes its more the gutter press of the tech industry, and some times they pick up on a story that slips by all the other sites

 

[dattimr]

One more combo, although it's not as fun[ny] or "pro as the Magic one":

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/11206/jetway_offers_upgrade_friendly_am3_board/index.html

The MA3-79GDG COMBO features two DDR2-1066 slots and two DDR3-1066 slots. It is a micro-ATX offering, making use of the 790GX and SB750 chipset combo.

Other features include Radeon HD 3300 IGP along with two PCI-E 2.0 x16 slots to allow for Hybrid Crossfire or CrossfireX support, seven SATA-II ports, single IDE connector, 7.1 channel audio with optical and co-axial S/PDIF, Gigabit Ethernet and 1x eSATA. Video output choices include D-Sub, DVI and HDMI.

A price hasn't been mentioned yet, but it's said to become available in stores sometime next month.

OBS: Is it just me or DDR3-1066 sucks?

 

[dattimr]

One more pic...

Theo = Epic [xxxx].

 

[amdfangirl]

The Inq is a tech tabloid site.

If you don't understand what that particular media concept is then I guess you should stay away ... it has been known to suck a few people in.

I find the story titles are quite humorous ... well thought out really.

Remember it is supposed to be funny ... and appeal to geeks.

Facts AND Friction ...

Like when was the last time a story at THG or Anandtech made you laugh ??

Rob W is the only staffer here with a sense of humour ...

I wonder if THG will employ us Reynod...

Sure it'll be the end of THG as we know it... but I'm an awesome article writer... with my unmatched lack of attention and hyperactive 2 words per minute typing speed, we'll be done in no time! (Well for me at least... you can do everything)

...but first I gotta finish reading this addictive book...

I wonder if they will make a movie about this...

 

[rangers]

whats that 3CP0 is holding, LOL

 

[amdfangirl]

One more combo, although it's not as fun[ny] or "pro as the Magic one":

Err umm... I don't wanna make you sound silly, but Magic Pro is Jetway's name in Hong Kong.

 

[dattimr]

Err umm... I don't wanna make you sound silly, but Magic Pro is Jetway's name in Hong Kong.

O;

 

[dattimr]

Well, it wasn't worse than "reverse hyperthreading", at least [I guess...].

 

[amdfangirl]

You got that right!

 

[spathotan]

whats that 3CP0 is holding, LOL

The droid isnt holding anything, Jax Paven is holding a lightsaber.

 

[Hellboy]

The droid isnt holding anything, Jax Paven is holding a lightsaber.

He was holding his nvidia chipset based motherboard, but had to drop his nforce 4 as he realised he didnt want to be the new heatsink Nvidia desperately needed

 

[amdfangirl]

The droid isnt holding anything, Jax Paven is holding a lightsaber.

Haha if that is true then I'm Colonel Solo (Darth Caedus)

 

[Hellboy]

Haha if that is true then I'm Colonel Solo (Darth Caedus)

You that robot sith lord with four arms..

you must be considering how many posts you have done !!!!

 

[dattimr]

OMG, "boy from hell", you have 3 rigs featuring together 3 TBs of space, man! Which do you enjoy the most [wait, don't beat me with the Q9550]? Can you actually tell the difference between them while not gaming or encoding, if I may ask?