***955 Unleashed***

[chew*]

I was lucky enough to get my hands on one of these 955's early and whip up a review for launch day.........enough chit chat lets see the star of the show and what it can do.....

First I'd like to note I swapped to the latest publicly available bios on gigabytes site for the ddr 3 board.

Special thanks goes out to MsiMax who helped out alot with the LN2 results.....He has quite a few of his own results if he can find them

AIR results
Gigabyte 790FX and FXT
AMD Phenom II 955
Pc Power and cooling 750W
ATI 4850's
ATI 4890s's

I saw a lot of shots like this and I personally disprove of them, not real world at all..........Yes you can do 4 gig on stock volts..........however lets see what it takes for true stability........



Prime stable, true stability at its best, seems the 955 is definitely a cut above the rest.......



All around bench stable



All around Bench stable with the NB cranked up



I decided to test out the IMC and do some ram clocking....and whoa

The IMC is tuned well for low latency ram and will do far better with slower speeds and tighter timings.



Some more ram clocking although I admit I didn't put as much effort into this one.



Max all cores for opening MS paint and saving while oced



Max cpu-z all core validation ( I finally broke that magical 4.5 on air )



Phase change results
Gigabyte 790FX and FXT
AMD Phenom II 955
Pc Power and cooling 750W
ATI 4850's
ATI 4890s's

All around bench stable



Some 3d benching 2x 4850's



Some 3d benching 2x 4890's



Max all cores for opening MS paint and saving while oced




Max cpu-z all core validation



DI results
Gigabyte 790FX
AMD Phenom II 955
Pc Power and cooling 750W
ATI 4850's
ATI 4890s's

All around bench stable



Went for a max speed in PI 1m



Ran some 3d03 for fun on DI w/4890 single (I think this is 5th on the bot)



Ran some 3d06 for fun with 4890's in xfire



Max all cores for opening MS paint and saving while oced



Max cpu-z all core validation
seems this got rejected but no loss 6.4 gig passed......


Ln2 results
Gigabyte 790FXT
AMD Phenom II 955
Pc Power and cooling 750W
Gskill ddr III 1600 @ 1700+
ATI 4850's
ATI 4890s's


All around bench stable



Max PI 1M I could pull with a budget set of ram



Some Pifast



Some everest



Max all cores for opening MS paint and saving while oced



Max cpu-z all core validation



And for the grand finale

Single card 4890 second place 3d06 in the world ( card is still on stock air )



2 x 4850's X fire World Record ( cards unmodded and still on air ) I forgot to bring the cpu speed back up with K10 stat, speed was 6.1gig as you can see according to 3d06 ( we were booting at this speed ), bug with gpu-z overclocking cpu when you open it causing a crash forces us to downclock.



http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=10719985

Summary.

It has been a pleasure working with the 955 Retail and in all shapes and forms has exceeded the clocks and performance of the ES chip I have been working with.

I'm quite sure there is even more potential in this chip just waiting to be unlocked and looking forward to benching with it some more in the very near future.