Phenoms now in stock

[Tute]

I might go for one just for a "change".

After all, it's the GPU that determines my performance really, not the CPU.

 

[queamin]

I might go for one just for a "change".

After all, it's the GPU that determines my performance really, not the CPU.

Same here but will be in the new year i think

 

[longshanks]

Is it worth going Quad though? Would anyone notice a big difference?

 

[Bikerz]

Whats all this about the L3 cache tho?

 

[dr. sarf]

But... but... if I buy a Q6600 surely it's not going to fit my AM2 motherboard? No fan boyism here, I'm on a certain upgrade path..

Indeedy. Anyone know of any benchmarks it has against the 6000+?

 

[Its_Me]

......SuperPI 1M
SuperPI took much longer than the Intel equivalent...................

Overclocking
Overclocking options are plenty on the MA790FX-DQ6. Add voltages as you want, change ram timings and CPU clks up to 500MHz. The only regret is that the CPU multipier is missing when we tested it with a GP-9600. With the Black edition X2 5000+, we are able to overclock the board to 6 x 420MHz aircooled with HT Link lowered to 400MHz (x2) and Vcore pumped to 1.40v (default is 1.25v). Click here to see BIOS Screen shots. With the Phenom GP-9600, we only achieved 220 x 10.5 = 2.53GHz.

REVIEW LINK http://www.ocworkbench.com/2007/gigabyte/GA-MA790FX-DQ6/b3.htm

Probably Overclocking can be fixed with a BIOS release, at least performance wise, results are close enough to NOT to consider an Intel platform switch if you can drop a Phenom into your board.

Although ATM Intel is still leading performance, overclocking and price. (curent prices 24/11/07)

 

[Tute]

Intel are only leading due to overclocking and yields. Clock for clock, it's as good as Conroe.

Unless you count SuperPi (can't understand why it's so low).

 

[Chimerical]

Is there any benefit whatsoever from it being a native quad? Hopefully the prices will come down soon so that it can compete.

 

[Jokester]

Being "native" quads mean that the cores can communicate directly with each other, rather than by the FSB on the Intel chips. This reduces the bottleneck, but in reality it doesn't seem to hamper Intel when it comes to multi-threading.

Jokester

 

[Quixote]

Being "native" quads mean that the cores can communicate directly with each other, rather than by the FSB on the Intel chips. This reduces the bottleneck, but in reality it doesn't seem to hamper Intel when it comes to multi-threading.

Jokester

It seems to matter for multi-socket systems (currently 8+ cores)but for 'consumer' users like ourselves, it doesn't seem to have any impact right now.