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Sharktooth
8th January 2009, 16:32
Check out the reviews:
http://www.tcmagazine.com/comments.php?shownews=23846&catid=2
Dark Shikari
8th January 2009, 16:34
What the hell are they doing? They didn't send me a prerelease one!

Someone needs to get on the case here, Intel is way ahead of them on this :D
Sharktooth
8th January 2009, 20:16
i havent got one too...
Blue_MiSfit
8th January 2009, 22:15
Looks pretty cool to me. Good overclocking results.

TechReport's x264 benchmark didn't have any specifics about settings, content, or version. I bet they're using a really old version without i7 optimizations.

What do you think, D_S? Potential for further optimization for Phenom II? I keep hoping team red will come out with a good CPU again..

~MiSfit
Sharktooth
8th January 2009, 22:37
AMD is green... :p
Dark Shikari
8th January 2009, 22:41
Looks pretty cool to me. Good overclocking results.

TechReport's x264 benchmark didn't have any specifics about settings, content, or version. I bet they're using a really old version without i7 optimizations.

What do you think, D_S? Potential for further optimization for Phenom II?Sure. As long as they send me a CPU to test on, for I can't optimize for something I don't have ;)
IgorC
9th January 2009, 17:19
I saw a lot of test around Phenom II with old revisions of x264 (most of them 8xx revisions) but always found here test with fresh x264 revision.
http://www.fcenter.ru/online.shtml?articles/hardware/processors/25857

Phenom II is on par with Q9000 cpus.
i7 is fastest but at higher $ cost especially platform.
http://www.fcenter.ru/img/article/CPU/Phenom_II_X4/130975.png
Power consumption is also on par.

AMD will live :)
Sharktooth
9th January 2009, 18:15
x4 940 costs approximately as much as the q9400.
keep in mind the test system was still on socket AM2+ and DDR2. with the first AM3 mainboards there will be a faster HT bus, DDR3 support and Ph II cpus will have a 200Mhz faster clock for memory controller.