Phenom anygood

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reddevil6

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does anyone have a phenom are they any good or should i wait a little longer untill they fix them up a little
 
Phenom is, clock for clock, inferior to the C2d. Between the two, the choice is obvious. If say, you had an AM2 motherboard (of which AM2+ phenoms are supposed to backwards compatible with) and were looking for a worthy replacement.. Possibly, if you were disposed to spending the money, and really wanted a quad core. Personally I would stick with that dual-core till either the prices drop, or a new chip is released.
 
Phenoms are not as good as i thought they would be, also they said they should work on most AM2 boards.. theres hardly any that they will work on because the manufactures aren't releasing new bios. Basicly you would have to buy a AM2+ board, and not be able to use your current one. If you were to do that, i would just get something like the Q6600 which is better.
 
They are decent processors for the price, but compared to the Core 2 Quads they aren't better. They are also very poor overclockers.
 
but still, 189 dollars, and tests prove that clock for clock, one 9500 core is better then one 6000 core, so its essentially a very easy choice lol
 
Are they planning on releasing any with a higher clock speed?

If you look the 9700 is just below (well around 200 points :() the Q6600, but they both have the same clock speed.

I've read somewhere about AMD were originally looking to bring out 3ghz versions straight away, does anyone know why they didn't?
 
nffc10 said:
Are they planning on releasing any with a higher clock speed?

If you look the 9700 is just below (well around 200 points :() the Q6600, but they both have the same clock speed.

I've read somewhere about AMD were originally looking to bring out 3ghz versions straight away, does anyone know why they didn't?
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They found a TLB erratum Bug in the L3 later in Lab testing before releasing that could make it lock up clocked over 2.4 in very rare server applications and since the Barcelona and Phenom share the cores and cache its in both. But it has only showed up in Lab testing. The thing is its never been duplicated in a Server or Desktop in real world testing, so for a desktop user its about meaningless. So they just didnt release one over 2.3 untill the B3 stepping come out.
 
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