AMD Phenom X4 9850, 9750 and 9550

Review @ bit-tech.net

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Without considering overclocking, AMD has improved the Phenom B3s and made quite a positive impact. The improved memory performance and corrected silicon is absolutely a step in the right direction, and what the Phenoms should have been launched as six months ago. OK, so what's done is done, and at least even AMD's fastest CPU is still affordable; hell, even the enthusiast Black Edition is consumer friendly – Intel could learn a thing or two rather than sitting in a swill of arrogance, screwing “enthusiast” for every penny they have with its Extreme Edition processors.

However, we feel AMD has put too much weight on the quad-core side of things – true, there are now tri-cores to bridge the gap that Intel hasn't filled yet, but most people will still be content with a dual-core processor and as we've shown, you don't need quad-cores for Crysis and World in Conflict. That's not to say quad core processors like the Q6600 G0 or Phenom X4 9850 are bad purchases – in fact, they're great buys as there is headroom for enthusiasts in both chips.

And on that note, the good thing for AMD is that the overclocking experience we've had from our Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition was very fruitful – it was far more enjoyable than the frustrating time we had with the 9600 Black Edition. The only downside is the fact you have to put a lot of effort into keeping it cool, although 2.8 to 3.0GHz should now be attainable on an AMD quad-core processor.

[...]If you can keep it cool then it should really work for you, however even with an expensive, large and very capable ZeroTherm cooler we still couldn't keep it cool at a quite reasonable 1.45V. Admittedly 65nm Core 2 Quads are hot runners at high voltage too, but they seem to be more tolerant of higher temperatures and the Intel 65nm process seems to leak less current.

Die Schlussworte sind doch etwas sehr einsetig gewählt, denn es gab auch Zeiten als die CPU´s von AMD halt gut über 700€ gekostet haben und sie sich den freien Multiplikator teuer bezahlen liessen, aber is halt schon wieder länger her.

Netter Review und alles dabei, aber dieser Aufhänger auf die Memory-Benchmarks, nur weil dort AMD Intel deutlich schlagen kann, find ich immer schräg, mittlerweile hat man ja auch mit den blöden Floating Point und Integer Benchmarks aufgehört.