There are golden Phenom X4 B3s out there capable of hitting 3.2Ghz on air!

[Donnie27]

well as far as i know phenom does scale pretty well with clock increases.
So i also think a 3.2Ghz phenom can keep up pretty well with 3-3.2Ghz kentfield..

So i was saying; if a phenom 9550 can be clocked to those speeds it will be really cool chip because it's significantly cheaper then a q6600.

But Q6600 will clock higher than 3.2GHz. I'm not trying to compare a Penryn at 3.2GHz already or something like the Q6600 or etc... Who said Clock for Clock equals?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14424/4

[triple_A]

But Q6600 will clock higher than 3.2GHz. I'm not trying to compare a Penryn at 3.2GHz already or something like the Q6600 or etc... Who said Clock for Clock equals?

http://techreport.com/articles.x/14424/4

I know Q6600's clock higher, 9550's are cheaper (or atleast they are over here ) so that put's it at around the same price/performance ratio.

But if the netherlands is the only country where a 9550 is cheaper than a q6600; sure, if a q6600 costs the same or even less than a 9550 it's a way better deal.

[Donnie27]

I know Q6600's clock higher, 9550's are cheaper (or atleast they are over here ) so that put's it at around the same price/performance ratio.

But if the netherlands is the only country where a 9550 is cheaper than a q6600; sure, if a q6600 costs the same or even less than a 9550 it's a way better deal.

No NO NO! That's the Q6600 running at stock 2.4GHz speed and running as fast as the ES Phenom at 2.6GHz. Now if you try and scale the speed, go from 2.4GHz to 2.6GHz for Phenom most times (clearly not all) it would need to be 2.8 to 3GHz to get a better result. Even with Games that aren't GPU Bottlenecked. Sure with some apps the Gap is small.

One example. The Valve particle test. Phenom 9750 = 66.0, Phenom 9850 = 72 FPS 100MHz faster = 6FPS. Core2Q 6600 = 83 FPS. So if we scaled just as an example only, we'd need 12 more FPS or 200MHz more to get 2.7GHz to reach 84 FPS. Since HT is running 200MHz faster that might be more like using 4 or 5 FPS per 100MHz CPU speed. I based this on 6 FPS and did a mulligan (give me) of the HT bus. So Q6600 is a similar speed at 2.4 compared to 2.7GHz or at a 300MHz Deficit ON THIS TEST.

That's just one test and others vary but Phenom was NEVER clock for clock on more than 1 or 2 tests. Some times it much closer and other time the GAP is wider. That unless some folks think Sandra is an app?