Phenom II 6 GHz+ OVERCLOCK

[Zucker2k]

Seems very plausible so they pulled it out.Thanks for posting these .


Actually it won FC2 and Crysis warhead ,not 1.It came close second in Dead Space-6% behind and Clear Sky-1fps behind Turbo clocked i940(so that means per clock it was probably faster than i940).World at war and World in Conflict never favored Phenom(I) from the start(compiler?),but Phenom II makes up tremendous ground in these two games.
All in all,if true,in games at least ,Phenom II @ 3GHz is very competitive with both Core2Q and Core i7.We need some OCed benchmarks at say ~4Ghz for all 3 CPUs to see how they scale(in games GPU rules though).

My bad.

Maybe we're not looking at the same graph so here is what I'm looking at:

STALKER CLEAR SKY, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 41.7
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 41.2


CRYSIS WARHEAD, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 35.7
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 35.0

DEAD SPACE, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 219.0
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 214.4

FAR CRY 2, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 54.4
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 46.2

WORLD AT WAR, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 48.7
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 57.3

WORLD IN CONFLICT, 1680x1050

Phenom II x4 940 3Ghz = 92.7
C2Q Q9550 2.83Ghz = 95.0

The lower clocked C2Q Q9550 is actually head to head with PII 940 and beats it by a wider margin, Imagine would Q9650 would do at 3Ghz, just like PII 940. Now I'm not a mathematician so you do the math.

Now expect the C2Q line to drop in price around January; I expect the Q9550, the PII 940's main competitor (imho) to drop to around $250, I expect Intel to do nasty things, price-wise with this particular chip against the PII 940. Expect Ci7 920 to be hover just below the Q9550 in price. With the above performance from the Q9550, AMD will always be forced to price the PII 940closely to the Q9550 since the PII 940 offers no performance advantage over this chip; and it is z775 compatible.

I think talks of ATi 4000 series and Nvidia is a little bit premature here; Intel has too many good weapons to fight this battle.