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John McLean

3:51 PM on 23 April, 2009

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Looks good. FYI all the charts in your review say 810 not 955 Black Ed.

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Ed

4:05 PM on 23 April, 2009

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Cheers, I think they should all be fixed by now.

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Alex.rar

5:27 PM on 23 April, 2009

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no conclusion!?

aww :(

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Ed

5:33 PM on 23 April, 2009

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You're right, we only did a 'verdict' on page 3. My bad. ;)

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basicasic

9:18 PM on 23 April, 2009

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Talk about wanting it on a plate! Overclocking used to be a bit of a black art. Soldering resistors, joining tiny bridges with conductive paint, using the right memory and tinkering with timings and voltages, fiddling with motherboard jumpers, flatting/polishing the cpu heatspreader and huge heatsink, screaming fans, all to get a few extra Mhz. I sweated blood to get a P75 running at 90Mhz on an Asus CUSL2 !

You guys get 3.8Ghz (nearly a 20% overclock) at stock voltage without lifting a finger and moan about it. How hard could it be to raise the voltage 0.1V to see if it would hit 4Ghz? Or more.

Other than that good cpu and great review ;)

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Ed

9:40 AM on 24 April, 2009

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As I explained, the system was essentially dead after some initial attempts and due to time constraints we weren't able to recover it for another run. Reading around, these will easily hit 3.8 on stock voltages, and are reasonably likely to reach 4 with a bit of extra voltage. Beyond that you need some serious cooling.

Nevertheless, the point I was making was that the 3.2 to 3.8 overclock we achieved was lower than the 2.8 to 3.41 we achieved with the Q9550 (both without changing any voltages) - a CPU that proved to be generally faster despite its lower clock speed. So the overclocking potential of the 955BE has to be taken with a pinch of salt.

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andy1001

3:47 PM on 16 May, 2009

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I belive there is missclick - should be 6mb L3 cache instead of 2mb on page 1.

May i ask about cooling? Did you use components included in box or add your own cpu cooling? Was thermal paste included in box? What was temperature when oc to 3.8?

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In the Phenom II 955 Black Edition, AMD has created a great CPU that will satisfy the vast majority of power users, gamers, and enthusiasts. Most importantly, it's priced very competitively and makes for a great alternative to all of Intel's solutions at around the £200 price point. However, the apparent overclockability of these chips due to their unlocked multiplier doesn't actually hold out in normal circumstances. Perhaps if you use water cooling or liquid nitrogen you'll be able to get this chip running at 6.0GHz (like people have with the Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition) but in a conventional air cooled system you're just as likely to get the same amount of overclocking headroom from one of Intel's chips.

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Reviewed by Edward Chester

23 April 2009

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