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Phenom II 920 on air 1.4v 3.64Ghz

The Halk

The Halk

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As the title says, someone got hold of a retail 920 and has it so far at 3.64 on air, without spending a great deal of time on it.

He says there will be more results later once it's on water.

The 920 is the 2.8Ghz one, not the top end 3.0.

I'm going to be getting a 940 as soon as they come out. So I'm all excited about the news coming out about them.

There's 2 dates rumoured for their release, 20th December and 8th January.

Hopefully it's the 20th of December, if it is then I'll have time to see just how high I can get it.
 
There isn't. It could be a little higher, or a little lower. People are expecting a touch lower, but it remains to be seen. I did see it mentioned that they are roughly 15% faster clock for clock than Phenom Is. But that might be crap.
 
The 920 has a locked multiplier so we could expect more from the 940 in terms of overclocking.

Logic says that they must be faster than Phenom I's clock for clock, improved architecture and a shed load more cache. Core2Duo's, its too early still, need some benchies.
 
The "BE" is the new FX. Black Edition, with unlocked multipliers.

Perhaps though AMD are saving the FX for when (if) they have the performance crown again. I suppose it'd create a bit of a stir if they came out with a Phenom II 985 FX.
 
These should be cheaper than core i7 too. One thing's for sure. The motherboards are miles cheaper and you are not going to be forced onto expensive DDR3 (well not with the first releases anyway).
 
pastymuncher said:
These should be cheaper than core i7 too. One thing's for sure. The motherboards are miles cheaper and you are not going to be forced onto expensive DDR3 (well not with the first releases anyway).
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Nor with later releases. AMD have said that the Phenom II will have both a DDR2 and a DDR3 controller, meaning they can be used in AM2+ and AM3 boards.
 
Thats a great overclock. Kind of curous though, i thought that the HyperTransport link couldnt be overclocked too much. (At least on current Phenoms and mobos)
 
Time will tell when they hit retail and people get properly hold of them.

It'd take serious overclocking to knock the crown off Intels head with their i7s. But it keeps being said that the Phenoms are aimed at the core duo quads. But then again why did AMD name them the same as the Intels if that was the case?

Apparently the NDA drops on the 20th.
 
Here we have some early numbers of the Phenom II X4 model 940 running on a AMD 790GX / SB750 mainboard with 2GB DDR2-1066 and ATI 4850 graphics card.

Super PI 1M took 23 secs to complete.

Performance Test AMD X4 940
Test Item

3DMark Vantage (Performance) P7334
3DMark 06 Build110(1920X1200) 10573
CINEBENCH R10 CPU Benchmark(x CPU) 9746
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Anybody know what the C2Q and i7 do the above in?
 
The Halk said:
Time will tell when they hit retail and people get properly hold of them.

It'd take serious overclocking to knock the crown off Intels head with their i7s. But it keeps being said that the Phenoms are aimed at the core duo quads. But then again why did AMD name them the same as the Intels if that was the case?

Apparently the NDA drops on the 20th.
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Well, judging from the opterons it shouldnt be able to match i7 clock for clock.

Time will tell, i do hope they have a suprise for us, as the Radeon 4xxx series was.

Wouldnt mind my next PC being AMD again
 
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