It never fails to amaze me how contentious these threads get, when the topics can be boiled down to a few sentences.
Substance of story: New revision Phenoms OC significantly, but not hugely, more than older chips.
Import of story: Phenom is now somewhat more competitive in the budget overclocking space, or for those who must run AMD as a matter of personal preference.
That's it. What's to argue about?
Phenom makes for a excellent upgrade path for anyone using an AM2 system & offers the cheapest x86 Quad Core on the market which will only attract more customers. Granted it's not "Xtreme High End" but 96.6% don't buy those chips but the cheaper ones that Phenom targets.Quote:
Originally Posted by Donnie27
ps: my IBM Model M keyboard is busted so may have spelling and grammar errors, more than usual anyway...
It's all good Brother_Esau I saw the stuff happening to many times before. You're abit like Pete, with 'telling it as you see it' which can be a good thing and a bad thing depending on the other people in the thread :up:
Tony's thread is still nice don't you think ;)
And to each his own, I won't tell you my quad is faster then yours lol :P
I was glad B3 seems to clock this well, and still waiting for 45nm so they might clock even higher! For server's and non performance enthousiasts there is nothing wrong with AMD ( no.. should be: not much as some game benches they do trail to.. ).