Quote Originally Posted by vaughanster View Post
Nice to see what a cherry-picked golden sample can do in the hands of an engineer, but what about in reality?
If you don't trust that for whatever reason, then wait till I or someone else here tests one.

Quote Originally Posted by KeZzZu View Post
some mem action with msi mobo for me it's quite impressive thought :P
Have you applied the bug patch? Your memory perf and latency is quite bad for 890 and those latencies.
But that maybe because you have a low NB clock.

Also, everyone should check this Phenom in-detail review out! I think this is the first one I really enjoyed for what they tried, dealt with, methods, investigated and wrote in regards.

1st Jan: http://www.lostcircuits.com/cpu/amd_phenom

Contents covered:
-V8, Penryn, Conroe, Pentium, 4x4, X2 (65nm/90nm) all compared.
-Int, FP, gaming benchmarks
-Effect of the AOD "magic button" across benches
-Effect of 1066 RAM over 800
-Power consumption in all states and vitaly when overclocking
-Power efficiency @ workloads
-Virtualization and TLB errata and patch (explanation)
-Effects of memory bandwidth
-Effects of NB clocks

Some things are a little inaccurate in there (one comment IIRC- will talk about it later) but the rest is v.good IMO. Pay special attention to how its shown that oc a lower VID/Amp/Volt binned retail CPU usually gets much lower CPU power consumption than one retailed at that Speed/Volts. This is the same with Pentium, Conroe, A64, K10 and Penryn across the board. Since MFG stability requires higher amps per core and thus higher TDPs/power than customer oc methods. This is why we with 9500/9600 were seeing much lower power consumption figures than to-be retail 9700 and 9900.