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my phenom940 benchies

Got my 940BE to...

3570MHz @ 1.42v
~35C idle, 51C load
17 x 210 multi / FSB
2100MHz HT link and NB Frequency
5-5-5-15-22 350MHz RAM (3:5 divider) @ 2v

3Dmark06 (16823 marks), Vantage and OCCT stable

It's a fairly easy OC if I may say so myself. I've never overclocked anything before and this was my first time at trying. I know of the basics so I'm quite pleased with what I have. Just need to add another fan to my TRU to drop the temps down a bit and then see if I can get it higher.
 
any updates??

atm i've got 3720 Mhz on 18x (cant get the multi higher atm)
Bus speed 206.7
HT is 1860

just gonna raise the HT link a bit more and see how much more i can get, but i'm not holding much hope... my motherboard doesn't seem to like it!
 
According to the Tech Report there isn't much difference in games, but their posteriors are handed to them when the workstation apps are used.

What you should also bear in mind is that - when overclocking, the average clock speeds attainable for both ar around 3.5-3.8GHz. Which means that the i7 will probably be faster, assuming the processors are running at the same clock... naturally, you have to get them clocked to realise this difference.

Also, something that should be considered is that the Phenom 2 chips run very cool, according to user reports from around the internet, whereas the Core i7 chips do not (in comparison).

There is also the small issue of Core i7 requiring a truly painful cash outlay (£220-ish for a motherboard, £ouch for RAM), whereas the Phenom 2 is merely an AM2+ motherboard (£100 can get you a good one) on DDR2 RAM (£70-ish). And the Phenom 2 processors have just been cut in price to sub-£200...
 
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Overclocked properly i.e. not just using multi, these PhenII pulls forward and past the similar priced Intel chips, the i7 is generally faster anything from 0-20% but it really does depend on the app.

The original Phenom received a pretty bad name for itself, didn't clock very well, was a very warm chip, not enough cache etc, it's a shame because the Phenom II corrects ALL of that but people struggle to see past the original.

Perhaps AMD should have renamed the chip?
 
well today i've just sent my 940 back to amd because its faulty. cos of the random blue screen/freezes at stock.. also added to that it was a very crap clocker, only could get to 3.2-3.3ghz on stock volts then needed a lot more voits to get higher.. amd said its faulty and they'll replace it.

hopefully my replacemeant will be much better.
 
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Sweetloaf said:
So you overclocked it?:confused:
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not at first. but when it started to freeze /blue screen i thought i'd up the volts a notch which fixed it but i shouldn't need to do that. also amd said its it shouldn't be like that.

amd is replaceing it so whats the problem? they've accepted it that its faulty. are we gonna have another 10 pages just about this?
 
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1 side of the coin, was reading on another forum about a chip being able to post at 4.1 ghz on stock volts and still been stable enogth to screenie CPU-Z lol.
 
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