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| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 23rd Apr 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £189.56 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £217.99 (Inc VAT) |
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Comments for AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
John McLean said on 23rd April 2009
Ed said on 23rd April 2009
Cheers, I think they should all be fixed by now.
Alex.rar said on 23rd April 2009
no conclusion!?
aww :(
Ed said on 23rd April 2009
You're right, we only did a 'verdict' on page 3. My bad. ;)
basicasic said on 23rd April 2009
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 ;)
Ed said on 24th April 2009
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.
andy1001 said on 16th May 2009
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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Looks good. FYI all the charts in your review say 810 not 955 Black Ed.