AMD Phenom II AM3 review thread

[Leeghoofd]

It's still early mate, boards and biosses need to mature... but it's the same for S775 : a high well tweaked DDR2 platform can keep up with DDR3 1600 C9 most of the time... it's just in some apps that the extra power of DDR3 is nice... once you surpass 1600mhz with tight latencies it looks better...

[Shintai]

Soo, where's the beef? I mean bandwidth.
Looks like DDR3-1600 yields only around 15% more b/w for AM3 CPUs compared to DDR2-1066 on AM2+.

NB/L3 limited perhaps.

[informal]

Soo, where's the beef? I mean bandwidth.
Looks like DDR3-1600 yields only around 15% more b/w for AM3 CPUs compared to DDR2-1066 on AM2+.

AMD told a couple of review sites that AM3/DDR3 combo is mostly BIOS limited at the moment.That's why we see only a couple of boards on the market atm. But even with the not so "optimized" BIOS,the AM3/DDR3 combo is outperforming the 1066DDR2/AM2+ by 2-4% on average(depending on the review and app used).
It's reasonable to give a month to board makers to make adjustments to firmwares for their boards,just in time for 945/950 launch.

[onethreehill]

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,6...with_DDR3-RAM/

[onethreehill]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...710-am3-cpus/1

[onethreehill]

Finally
http://techreport.com/articles.x/16382
http://ixbtlabs.com/articles3/cpu/am...10-920-p1.html

[Tonucci]

Very very nice

AMD would be in severe trouble if Phenom II werent a success.

We now have good options, OC'able cheap, tri-cores...quads...

Go competition !

[villa1n]

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpu...710-am3-cpus/1

I know they are trying to show stock settings i guess for the review.. but in their conclusion...they say the ddr3 mem controller isn't good enough..yet they have it clocked at 1.8ghz... I think the margin would be a bit more noticeable if they had pushed it to 2.6 ghz.