Quote Originally Posted by Titan7171 View Post
Im looking forward to this cpu. What can anybody say about past wattage drops in similar cpu's? what kind of increase in overclock does a cpu generally get dropping from 140w to 125w?

What other Phenom 2 cpu's have made a drop like this?? 955? 945? and what was the difference in performance?

I dont have to say that Im looking to try and get 4.3ghz stable for 24/7 on a C3....... Im already at 4.1ghz on this 965 for 24/7, 4.2ghz is pushing the voltage to 1.6v in bios and shows 1.62v in windows without a load on it. But its stable enough to run pretty well and play games as long as its cool enough.

Opinions?
Ive always noticed a few Hundred MHZ Higher OC and Less Volts to do it. Thats Going from 140watt to 125watt..

The only time ive seen a 140watt counter part be better was My 9950 140watt . One of the few that out performed a 125watt counter part.. MHZ wise..(3.9ghz) In Fact I used a lot more power to get to 3.6ghz at the Same MHZ as a 9850 @ 3.6ghz and a huge amount more to pass a 9950 (125watt )when Oced above 3.8ghz

In most part the 125watt IMC will be better and allow more NB on the lower watts (newer and or same steppings). Its rare that a higher 140watt chip does better than new Lower 125TDP of same freqency(better batches/yields) . As batches improve the TDP improve with it in most cases.

Thus you can almost expect the few more MHZ in todays chips when going from 140watt to 125watt unless you get one with 6cores jk/k lol.

With C3 id keep around 1.6v or lower if your using High NB...That heat does build up fron NB especially when Gaming or Benching..Lower NB will help control that alot with any Phenom, but i know you already know that.