AMD Overdrive

[StrangleHold]

You all saw this AMD Overdrive for the Phenom
http://www.nordichardware.com/news,6995.html

Here is some news that every AMD fanboy would like:
AMD is developing a software called "AMD overdrive". Just like nTune, it can adjust different system values. It's interesting that we find out the software can adjust multiple frequencies of different cores independently.
Personally I think that's good news for people that cares about the total power consumptions of their computers. They can just turn off some cores while they are watching DVDrips.

 

[Zangetsu]

This is probably just for the Phenom CPU's, right? Too bad.

Zangetsu

 

[StrangleHold]

Yeap just the Phenom as far as I know. I think with the new AM2+ boards it gives you the option in the bios to do it, but I guess this program gives you a, on the fly type thing so you dont have to reboot.

 

[zer0_c00l]

Yeap just the Phenom as far as I know. I think with the new AM2+ boards it gives you the option in the bios to do it, but I guess this program gives you a, on the fly type thing so you dont have to reboot.

can wait..im all over that! my extra hampster is getting old and tired...muahhh

 

[StrangleHold]

The new box atleast we know they have the money for the boxes now lets put something in them.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

The new box atleast we know they have the money for the boxes now lets put something in them.

When do those come out and how expensive?

EDIT: I just saw $247 on the X4 9500(lowest model) and December 14th.... That's a little bit ridiculous when knowing that in January, I can buy a Q9450 for $316 and demolish that thing and have three times the L2 of the X4

 

[StrangleHold]

I heard a rumor that AMD is dropping the Phenom X2 and is only going to have the Phenom X3 and X4 and are going to call the Phenom X2 a Athlon 6000 series. So that way there Phenom X3 will compete with the Core 2 dual core on top end. 3 cores for the price of 2. Its going to be a wild year next year with all these different processors from AMD and Intel.

 

[INTELCRAZY]

I heard a rumor that AMD is dropping the Phenom X2 and is only going to have the Phenom X3 and X4 and are going to call the Phenom X2 a Athlon 6000 series. So that way there Phenom X3 will compete with the Core 2 dual core on top end. 3 cores for the price of 2. Its going to be a wild year next year with all these different processors from AMD and Intel.

3 cores = refused quad core from AMD... If you ask me it's gonna come down to Dual or Quad, 'tri-cores' will be bumped out of the picture... If they are gonna market a good tri-core and would make a good affinity/prioritizing app, apart from Windows Task Manager, I would buy it in a heartbeat...

 

[StrangleHold]

No I mean the X2 Phenom is being demoted to a Athlon 6000 series mid range processor and AMD is going to use there X3 Phenom to compete with Intel Core 2 Dual core, and if there pricing is equal Ghz.vs.Ghz you could get a Phenom X3 at 2.8Ghz for the same price or lower than a Core 2 Dual core 2.8Ghz. This is all rumor but if its true AMDs Phenom X3 at the same price as a Core 2 Dual core would be hard to beat.