[citation][nom]hoodsax[/nom]"So, using a mechanical pencil, we bent the two offending pins back and forth until they snapped off. The chip now fit into our AM3 test platform, albeit not flush due to the metal nubs where each pin broke."This would have been amazing if it had worked and might have redeemed THG (a little) if it had. Although, it didn't, so it is we-tall-did that you did this and you shouldn't have even mentioned it.[/citation]
I think it's brilliant information to mention that it did infact not work. There are ther people out there who might be inclined to try the same, and now they know it'd be a waste of time and hardware. But the most interesting part about it imo was that the cpu still ran in the old socket.
[citation][nom]kknd1967[/nom]I really have to post again after reading all the gaming benchmarks. Dear Chris, unless you are doing internship at THG, please learn to do a reasonable benchmark. Particularly look at gaming performance compared to other sites such as Anandtech. If you could not justify your numbers, you have to rethink what you did wrong.[/citation]
Mate, he can justify his numbers. He's not some apprentice randomly posting stuff on inquier! I'm sure if he posts, or defends numbers posted here he's genuinely convinced those numbers are correct. Doesn't exclude the possibility of error, but if there are any errors they're honestly made, and not bought/intentional.
[citation][nom]squatchman[/nom]With that vantage GPU score to be so abnormally below the rest of the pack for i7, I'm surprised that you even kept it in the benchmarks. I suppose getting the article out is the most important thing though. Maybe the motherboard was mis-configured somehow?Like Bounty said you really just proved that high resolution gaming puts the burden on the GPU rather than the CPU and that i7 destroys other processors.[/citation]
So you want THG to remove benchmarks where the results are not satisfactory? You chinese, or working as mod on apple's forum?
[citation][nom]marraco[/nom]Is disappointing that we can't have faster AM3 chips. Also disappointing that AM3 does not support triple channel (Why not quad channel?).If AMD plans to restrain consumers of buying i7 until it liberates the faster AM3 chips, is doing a good work on me, I keeps waiting.On other side, i7 benchmarks are unfair when does not include both hyper threading activated and deactivated. Sometimes it does a huge difference.Also, i7 Shines on SLI/Crossfire setups, and I don't expect SLI capable AM3 motherboards, and even less simultaneous SLI AND Crossfire support.Since GPU are really important to me, I don't want to be corseted to one GPU vendor, because this year GPU can be really good and cheap, and -if I conserve my job- I want to be capable to buy the best.[/citation]
I7 has nothing to do with crossfire and sli. That's the x58 chipset. And there's no reason why that chipset is eternally going to be the only one available which runs I7 cpu's. I'd have liked the phenom 2 to support quadchannel ddr2 & ddr3 memory myself too though, but I suppose they couldn't make that big changes to their memory controller without breaking compatibility with old platforms.
[citation][nom]soldier37[/nom]I have a now 2 year old EVGA SLI 590 motherboard Socket AM2. Will the new Phenom 2 CPU just pop right in and work? I know it wont have the integrated support without the AM2+ and AM3 boards have but would it still work I wonder?[/citation]
You'd have to ask evga about that. Check if the processor is in the cpu support list, and if not ask them via the web form if it'll work.
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