AMD 9850 to Q6600!!!

[ZedPowered]

Have decided AMD were far too slow and moved back to Intel after many years away.

Cannot believe how quick the Q6600 is!! Goes great with the ReaperX memory!

How will this chip overclock on an Asus Commando?

Regards

 

[Bleek]

Too slow for what exactly?

We have several test rigs side-by-side and find the AMD actually quicker in Windows, or should I say 'smoother'. UAT with 50+ employees also came to a similar conclusion, albeit very fractional.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

I'm interested to know what you'd done to the 9850 to find that it was far too slow...
Yes, the Intel is faster when you factor in higher OC's and some software but the AMD is no slouch.

 

[jrwagh333]

yay finally some support for AMD!

 

[ZedPowered]

the AMD was just not performing well - slow starts and slow performance. tested everything and it came down to the processor.

must have just got a poor chip

 

[Bleek]

Not 'fan' support but actual beneficial business cases for AMD, they have a number of attractive platforms including lower power Opteron servers that we've started to use to reduce environment cost overheads (power & cooling).

Sure Intel are ultimately a little quicker for games and in a number of scenarios but AMD also excels in certains areas, against the Xeon we've found the Operaton be a strong virtual platform and great for database crunching.

 

[Bleek]

the AMD was just not performing well - slow starts and slow performance. tested everything and it came down to the processor.

must have just got a poor chip

Very weird I must say.

I honestly can't tell the difference, we have two 'identical' systems, same OS, ptaches, software etc one Intel Quad one AMD Quad, side-by-side you really can't tell.

No games in the office though, boring finance systems and the like.

 

[mrthingyx]

the AMD was just not performing well - slow starts and slow performance. tested everything and it came down to the processor.

must have just got a poor chip

PEBCAK, tbh.

I'm quite surprised you went for what appears to be quite a sideways 'up' grade. I'd have spent the money on something else. But then, I own an Athlon XP system.

Interesting perspective as the majority of gaming benchmarks have the Phenom ahead of the Q6600, and the Q6600 ahead in synthetics/encoding/etc... similar to the 'glory' (i.e. £40 for a demon processor) days of P4 vs. Athlon XP.

The 'smooth' experience of AMD is one that has been colloquially reported a number of times on this forum, so it's interesting to see it qualified, as such.

 

[Emlyn_Dewar]

PEBCAK, tbh.