AMD's x4 970 may transform into a x6 after unlock

[BeepBeep2]

yeah, 955 c3 is nice step forward but thuban...

It's a matter of time before I let this CPU go and grab a 1075T... maybe I'll get luckier this time.

[FlanK3r]

4 GHz will for you now at 100% stable :-). I was not too much lucky with 965 BE, today i has some playing with it and i cant got 4 GHz LINX ...At begining has the chip better electrical values- thinking

[FlanK3r]

and info for saaya:
chips are diferent, best 940 retails are as a normal average C2 955 chips example (3.8 GHz). I had very good 955 BE, 3.9 GHz aircooling stable and 965 C2 was a bit better-some exceptionally retails hiting at 4 GHz air stable, C3 revision is one step higher, average chips hiting between 3.95 GHz-4 GHz air stable and later batches was better. The best C3 can hit 4.1 GHz stable.
Diferent story is l-k E0 Thuban. Ussualy hiting between 4-4.2 GHz stable, sometimes are chips as in my signature :-) (4300 MHz stable with aircooling) and the best chip what i seen has MAD222, 4.34 GHz stable (if we downclock uncore clock, we can go a bit higher...). Of course, are 4 GHz 940 and 4 GHz. Because validation is easy, some webs test as stable setings only benchmark setings. Example, with 965 BE chip i can runing Cinebench at 4100 MHz stable, but full stable clock is 4 GHz.

[Pt1t]

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1409365

Prime to 4ghz for 1.32V on air.

But That 970BE is a deneb C3 like the 965BE and cant be unlock to 6 cores

[Particle]

It's hard to tell where the quads really were topping out since to most posters "stable" is what they can run without crashing much. These numbers are usually inflated from where the chips can really operate reliably. In any case, we've definitely seen some major improvement on AMD's 45nm, and it's not like it really started out at any point less than "quite good". I remember the thrill of AMD's maximum frequencies being in the 3-3.3GHz range with 65nm 5000+ duals or 2.6-2.8GHz with 9850 quads and all of a sudden we could were allowed pretty much no less than 3.5GHz on the first 45nm quad core models. I, as with many others, was all teeth from grinning so widely. Now, Thuban models will mostly do 4GHz with reliability, though some do worse than others. I've had particularly rotten luck with a 1055 and 1090 that both struggle to be fully stable at anything beyond 4GHz even at 1.55V, but it's still a pretty big improvement from that 3.6GHz @ 1.55V 940BE I had.

I know Sayaa has taken back his claim, but I did want to add another account to the record.

[qcmadness]

pf, 3.5ghz... i see 0 improvement over the first 45nm quads i played with a year ago...
im surprised amd still hasnt managed to get a 4ghz quad out... or at least a dualcore chip... it all looked so promising when their first 45nm chips came out but... somehow nothing ever happened after that, no notable improvements :/

Putting 6 cores into the same power envelope of 4 cores is already an achievement.

[Tomasis]

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1409365

Prime to 4ghz for 1.32V on air.

But That 970BE is a deneb C3 like the 965BE and cant be unlock to 6 cores

[Sn0wm@n]

yeah, enthusiast love 6 cores to.... err... please complete my sentence

sex a core .... omg ... naughty you ...

sexa-/sex- (from Latin)