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--- Phenom 2 Benchmarks ---

gurusan said:
Why would you buy one regardless of reviews.... ?
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Plenty of sites have "questionable" reviews or have farcical overclocking attempts (especially with the Phenom chips).
We know they will be better than the first gen of Phenom chips, that's a no brainer, they are also sitting at far higher clock speeds.

If you've got an AM2+ board I can't think of a reason to avoid the Phenom 2's.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
Plenty of sites have "questionable" reviews or have farcical overclocking attempts (especially with the Phenom chips).
We know they will be better than the first gen of Phenom chips, that's a no brainer, they are also sitting at far higher clock speeds.

If you've got an AM2+ board I can't think of a reason to avoid the Phenom 2's.
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I have a Q6600 and im still interested :D
 
Not looking good I feel, I had a feeling the release date was next month, in another thread I said it was far too quiet for a 2008 release date, yet got told nope they would be released last week :D It looks worse than a Q6600 in those tests :confused:
 
The first forum is 2 fairly useless synthetic benchies and a poor overclock. (curse you unlocked multiplier, laziness = lose)

The second is decent but it's only a preview and the majority are generic benchmarks. The couple of "real world" ones look decent to me, Cinebench scores don't look too bad over the Phenom.
Maybe "complete joke" was a bit far from me but I tire of awful overclocks and SuperPi unfortunately that's all the internet seems to offer.
 
Emlyn_Dewar said:
The first forum is 2 fairly useless synthetic benchies and a poor overclock. (curse you unlocked multiplier, laziness = lose)

The second is decent but it's only a preview and the majority are generic benchmarks. The couple of "real world" ones look decent to me, Cinebench scores don't look too bad over the Phenom.
Maybe "complete joke" was a bit far from me but I tire of awful overclocks and SuperPi unfortunately that's all the internet seems to offer.
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Ah okay I see what you mean about Super PI, but 3DMark06 is good general benchmark though I feel. Are there any decent reviews out there? I cannot see any at all?

Well how much realistic difference will there be in over clocking just the multi?
 
With the first Phenom, a properly clocked CPU would trounce one clocked purely by multiplier, by a respectable amount. I can't think of a reason why it would be any different for the Phenom 2.

I can't see any previews around that I trust too much. Most are either far too fast and posted by a biased source or they're way too low (lower than a stock 9850)...
I'm still expecting it in mid January and I'm hoping to have the spare cash available to get rid of the (stock) 9600.
 
No point getting one of these if someone already has a Core 2.
I mean a Core 2 Quad and a decent board will get you a good OC. Even if Phenom 2's hit 4GHz a 3.8GHz Penryn will probably be roughly equal it seems, which is the speed i hit with my Q9450.

An i7 is the only worthwhile upgrade from a Core 2. I can hit 4GHz easy on a 920, so can others, all you need is good enough cooling.

As for game benchmarks, you wont see much difference compared to Core 2 Quads. The i7 has already shown games are completely held back by the GPU. For instance to see massive frame rate gains with an i7 over a Penryn you need tripple SLI or to run the game on a super low res.
 
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I shall reiterate the point. That is still just multiplier overclocking. Someone ram up the FSB on them and we shall see the difference.
 
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