Phenom Overclocking!! Dont get to excited

[sculptor]

I found this thread on XS, looks like Phenom might just turn out to be a good chip after all. Still early days and lots of bios work needed but looks promising.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=166792

Just hope the B3 stepping comes out fighting, it would be nice to have an AMD rig again, and we all need Intel to have a competitor to keep them on their toes.

 

[jrodga2k5]

2.7Ghz on total stock volts and what they are describing as a "flakey bios" is pretty good going so far! Like the Core 2 Duo's these chips will live or die by their overclocking performance!

 

[dr. sarf]

Sounding good to me!
Wanting one more and more.

 

[JediFragger]

If they do 3Ghz then it becomes a viable option (at least until the new B3 stepping)

 

[mnemonix]

2.7Ghz on total stock volts and what they are describing as a "flakey bios" is pretty good going so far! Like the Core 2 Duo's these chips will live or die by their overclocking performance!

...within the overclocking community (duh!). The other 99% of the market don't give a damn what it does over stock.

 

[Justintime]

Looking respectable. Maybe good Bioses and better silicon will make Phenom a viable worthwhile alternative to C2D

 

[mattyrigby00]

this is with early/"flakey" bios and the first retail stepping so it hopefully gets better.

 

[Gashman]

...within the overclocking community (duh!). The other 99% of the market don't give a damn what it does over stock.

your right, your all judging a processor on what us, the TINY miniscule, insignificant part of the market think, want from hardware, the main things for a processor to the other 99% of the market are: price, its gotta be worth it and good value for money, temperature/noise, another important consideration for people want quiet machines, efficiency/performance, only at stock cause 99% of computer uses have no idea you can get free performance from there hardware, and to be honest they don't really care, so judging by these guidelines, phenom still isn't as good value for money as C2D and C2Q cause they give better performance for the cost

 

[something_totally_different]

phenom still isn't as good value for money as C2D and C2Q cause they give better performance for the cost

AMD seems to have done its homework when the company set the price for its Phenom processors. The Phenom 9600 is about 13.5% slower than Intel's Q6600 in our benchmarks. On the other hand, its price is also 13.6% lower than that of its direct competitor. Thus, the two products offer practically the same performance for your money.


- Toms hardware.

Its only bad value at present because a few major retailers have jacked up the prices to nearly £30 above where they should be per CPU. if you look around you can find the phenom for its proper price at which it is a good value alternative.

 

[theforce]

The majority of people don't know what Intel or AMD is. They don't even know what's in a system when they buy it...

 

[Mattus]

...within the overclocking community (duh!). The other 99% of the market don't give a damn what it does over stock.

... and the majority of those don't give a damn what it does at stock.