Phenom II 6 GHz+ OVERCLOCK

[adamsleath]

my first computer was a Commodore Vic20

i had one of those.

[Nedjo]

Bring it on baby!!! I am ready!

Francois

didn't know you're following this room so closely

[Nedjo]

LOL 1.9V? i guess its cool to know that the phenom can get that high. pretty impressive yet its not useful. also lets you know the overclocking potential of the phenom II.

well if I told you that with in spec Phenom ][ has no problem with 1.5V that sub-zeroed 1.9V doesn't sound so high does it?

[nanohead]

Just to show you what a nerd (old guy) I am, my first computer was a Commodore Vic20 (~$500). It had a 32x40 character screen and 4k of Ram.

Before you laugh, it did have 16 colors! That POS Apple and TRS80 were just Green and black...

I probably spent another $400 on a 16k Ram card and a 5 1/4 floppy drive! That Cassette tape drive was just too slow!

Yep, I'm old too. I put myself through college on a Vic 20 and bought a C64 in the last year of school. Used to write simulations in Commodore basic

Was also addicted to that stupid game shamus..... we'd stay up all night playing

Hilarious.... and we're still tweakers after nearly 30 years

[Aussie FX]

Just to show you what a nerd (old guy) I am, my first computer was a Commodore Vic20 (~$500). It had a 32x40 character screen and 4k of Ram.

Before you laugh, it did have 16 colors! That POS Apple and TRS80 were just Green and black...

I probably spent another $400 on a 16k Ram card and a 5 1/4 floppy drive! That Cassette tape drive was just too slow!

I must have more grey hairs than you, my first Commodore was a Plus 4.
Anyone else have one of them?

I also have my first IBM compat. it's an Olivetti M24.

LOL @ 2hr load times with the cassettes.

[Final8ty]

My first was a ZX81.

[Russ_64]

Yeah i know the MSI feeling.. I was hoping they would of had a Diamond 790FX/SB750..

Yep, it looks like we will have to go with the 790GX to get SB750 .... but there is still time

[Milans]

Yep, it looks like we will have to go with the 790GX to get SB750 .... but there is still time

just buy ASUS M3A79-T Deluxe...

5-6GHz - not bad

[nuts24]

Just get a DFI 790FXB-M2RSH, the new bios says Phenom II added.

Also my 1st computer was a C64 and my 1st games system was the one that had football, tennis and a gun game on it.

[Oldguy932]

Yeah, also gonna break out the vapochill again finally. Only 9ish months of use and I've had it for like 3 years.

And I didn't mean to not care at all about actual clock speed with my last post, its just that I haven't seen anybody mention how high the nb will go with all this madness because as much as clockspeed will make a difference, 4.5ghz cpu/3ghz nb will be noticably faster than 4.5ghz cpu/2.5ghz nb.

[FatAlbert]

interesting

5.5ghz for 3d looks yumi

[biohead]

my first was a Commodore PET. And i'm not even 21

[charged3800z24]

Well since I am tounger I guess but also lack of money growing up.. my first PC was giving to me and was a Intel DX4ODPR100, it was what got me into computers as a hobby and now into my line of work.. I remember My first 1.2GB Bigfoot drive, Man I thought it couldn't get any bigger...lol

[Drwho?]

didn't know you're following this room so closely

The best way to beat your competitor is to know his product better than he does

Francois

[Doctor Pepper]

Zilog Z80 for president!!

By the way, Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 were far ahead of time… I mean, long before (nearly 30 years ) AMD dreamt up the Fusion concept, ZX80 had ONE processor taking care of both computing and graphics!! Half a second computing and half a second drawing a dot on the screen, and so on! Those were the times…

Anyone played Pacman on ZX80 here?? HARDCORE!

[zhadoom]

Zilog Z80 for president!!

By the way, Sinclair ZX80 and ZX81 were far ahead of time… I mean, long before (nearly 30 years ) AMD dreamt up the Fusion concept, ZX80 had ONE processor taking care of both computing and graphics!! Half a second computing and half a second drawing a dot on the screen, and so on! Those were the times…

Anyone played Pacman on ZX80 here?? HARDCORE!

My 1st computer = ZX81 - 16KB RAM, 16KB ROM ( 1983 ). I played PACMAN and many other games in ZX81.
Since then I used:
-ZX Spectrum ( Z80, 16K ROM, 48K RAM ) (1985)
-MSX ( Z80, 16KB ROM, 64KB RAM ) ( 1986 )
-Commodore Amiga 500 ( MC68000, 256KB ROM, 1MB RAM ) ( 1989 )
-Commodore Amiga 1200 ( MC68020, 512KB ROM, 2MB RAM ) (1991 )
After that many PC compatible ( 486, pentium, pentiumII, pentiumIII ,etc )

ZX81 and the 300bps K7 tapes are a permanent memory to me .

[Drwho?]

My 1st computer = ZX81 - 16KB RAM, 16KB ROM ( 1983 ). I played PACMAN and many other games in ZX81.
Since then I used:
-ZX Spectrum ( Z80, 16K ROM, 48K RAM ) (1985)
-MSX ( Z80, 16KB ROM, 64KB RAM ) ( 1986 )
-Commodore Amiga 500 ( MC68000, 256KB ROM, 1MB RAM ) ( 1989 )
-Commodore Amiga 1200 ( MC68020, 512KB ROM, 2MB RAM ) (1991 )
After that many PC compatible ( 486, pentium, pentiumII, pentiumIII ,etc )

ZX81 and the 300bps K7 tapes are a permanent memory to me .

mine was a 1Mhz Z80 with 1K of RAM ... Then, i got an Oric 1, with awesome 64K , but only 48K available, and then I got an atmos, with some soudering, you could get to 64K!
Then, I did build my 1st PC, in 1986, out of parts I bought in a store ... underground store in Paris ... with an awesome hercule graphic card, so many pixels ... later on, I got a EGA card ... and finally, a VGA card with 320x200 in 250 colors ... in parralele , I got an amiga 500, because I was programming "demos".
since 1990, I only run on Intel ... but Zilog was the fun in the 80's, I don't know if you remember on the Zx81, but you had to store the ASM instruction into REM comment lines ... so funny! I had not enough ram to store the ASM editor and the program you was writting ... lol

[Marvin_The_Martian]

The best way to beat your competitor is to know his product better than he does

Francois

And the big question is... how much will you drop prices in anticipation on this

[Drwho?]

And the big question is... how much will you drop prices in anticipation on this

More like ... how much higher frequency will I get when I LN2

[Marvin_The_Martian]

More like ... how much higher frequency will I get when I LN2

Do it

[informal]

Deneb reached 6.3Ghz on 4 cores yesterday.That's the info that wasn't disclosed at first,but now it's a known fact.Like i said in news section,it's a mere 11% shy of 7Ghz.It's just a matter of time since some master OCer breaks 7Ghz barrier with LN2.

[demonkevy666]

removing the resistor in the cache help too not just the 45nm

[RejZoR]

This certanly looks promising. Not that Intel hasn't provided us with plenty cost efficient CPU's but i really miss the AMD vs Intel battles like back in days of Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon4 (Tbird series) and later with AthlonXP...

[Drwho?]

This certanly looks promising. Not that Intel hasn't provided us with plenty cost efficient CPU's but i really miss the AMD vs Intel battles like back in days of Pentium 4 and AMD Athlon4 (Tbird series) and later with AthlonXP...

Let's see what it can do on SuperPI, Cinenbench

[informal]

Let's see what it can do on SuperPI, Cinenbench

SuperPI? Tell me that you are kidding please ...
SuperPi is THE most useless "program" ever created.As for Cine10,i can tell you it's really intel tuned(you guys even use it to promote your 45nm Penryn and Nehalem chips...).Apart from the "tuning" bias,it really is not used that much so useless argument applies here too.The real software like Maya or Lightwave should be used in comparisons.Also media encoding decoding,gaming,archiving,multitasking are welcome.
But Super PI and Cine10 are just toy benchmarks,nothing more.Zero use,100% hype.