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phenom 2's

Have a few booked in for now, if anyone comes down the shop give it an hour or so as the warehouse team will not be able to get to them.
 
Whats with the naming anyway, havent been following AMD really - is it coincedence that they're 920 and 940 like intel?

Whats next, a 965 black edition?
 
According to anandtech the phenom II 940 is edged out by the q9550. Shame really as i hoped it would be competitive with the q9650- then we would see some serious intel price cuts. Nevertheless a pretty good effort by AMD and finally a real alternative.
 
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According to anandtech the phenom II 940 is edged out by the q9550. Shame really as i hoped it would be competitive with the q9650- then we would see some serious intel price cuts.
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I'm seriously thinking that the lower HT/uncore/northy/memcontroller speed(whatever one you want to call it or mean by it) is hurting it. AS said benchers all say the difference between 1.8 and 2.2Ghz can give a 10% bump. i7 runs at 2.16 on the first two chips, 2.6Ghz on the top chip and it makes a difference but the reason people have been giving the 9950 love lately is its northy clocking ability and scaling brilliantly with it. None of the reviews really got into it, I would imagine lots can do significantly higher speeds, but obviously a slightly not mature process some aren't able to do 2Ghz stable at low volts.

THe first thing you'll want to do is run a bunch of benches stock and overclocked, then redo them with a faster northbridge speed and see the difference. Its something the Q series quads won't gain anywhere, but the P2's should have in reserve. Bearing in mind Macci on XS just took his northbridge speed from 1.8Ghz stock to 3.4Ghz and got some INSANE scores theres certainly room for manouvre there. I'd say the AM3 versions with 2Ghz stock clocks, 95w stock power usage(down 30W) will be pretty damn uber. You're looking at a slightly mature tweaked process a very decent drop in power 25% almost, on a chip that remember, scales excellently with voltage and temps so almost certainly will clock noticably higher than the current ones.

THe first ones will be good, that next batch which I assume to be a different stepping, could be looking at 4-4.3Ghz on great air cooling, much faster northbridge and should I think be comftably ahead of the Q series by then, which is only 1-2 months away.
 
I have read so many things about this chip, like it will only last 6months and then AMD will discontinue it and push the AM3 variant.

With that said, do you think there will be revision of these chips kinda like with the Q6600?
 
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