News - Unannounced AMD Phenom II X4 955 shows overclocking prowess

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AMD's fastest quad-core processor has surfaced, and it's said to overclock to 4GHz with ease.

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Nice but...what kind of "real world" benefit would we see from an overclock of 800Mhz?

Think of it this way, .8*4= 3.2 ghz extra, thats ALOT from such and easy increase. There will be quite a big benefit from tasks such as extracting, encoding etc.

a 3.2GHz AM3 quad is EXACTLY what i'm looking for.

all it needs now is a faster 'premium' brother and the 8 series chipset.

It's amazing how blase we are getting - less than 10 year's ago 800MHz would have been the norm for most people's desktop.

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Originally Posted by rkingb

It's amazing how blase we are getting - less than 10 year's ago 800MHz would have been the norm for most people's desktop.

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1999 I had a 500mhz P3 with 128mb of ram, which at the time was high end. In 2001, 1000mhz p4s were coming out IIRC.

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Originally Posted by rkingb

It's amazing how blase we are getting - less than 10 year's ago 800MHz would have been the norm for most people's desktop.

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10 years ago i had a P1 166mhz with 16mb RAM with Win 98..... I'm pretty sure 800mhz was out of the question at the time. i remember my friend had a P2 300mhz (i think) with 32mb and i thought that was fast lol :D

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I think AMD have got things right with the AM3, pricing is very good and the overclocking ability of the chips so far has been very impressive i mean just look at the 720 BE for example :)

in 98 I had a p1 120mhz, 96mb of ram (which was a lot for that time), a 2gb susi hard drive and a dimond stealth 3d 2000 graphics card (with 2mb of ram)
I was running windows of a 17" crt at 1024x768 in 16bit colour and doing 3d work with 3d Studio R4 (the last dos based version)

I did not have a computer 10 years ago!! I could not afford one!! :(

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Originally Posted by fonz_valo

10 years ago i had a P1 166mhz with 16mb RAM with Win 98..... I'm pretty sure 800mhz was out of the question at the time. i remember my friend had a P2 300mhz (i think) with 32mb and i thought that was fast lol :D

Anyway back on topic....

I think AMD have got things right with the AM3, pricing is very good and the overclocking ability of the chips so far has been very impressive i mean just look at the 720 BE for example :)

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OK my ten years was an over estimate...

I recently built a 7750 based system and was impressed by value for money and ease of overclocking. Hopefully AMD have turned the corner.

11 years ago I have my first pc, P1 166 overclocked to 200 with everything stock and a rubish heatsink (not after market heatsinks at that time, I even didn't bother to check temps) and 64MB ram, a luxury ;-)
I played Quake 2, Jedy Knight and Unreal, cracking games!

I forgot to say my modem was PCI and 56KB, super fast in the last century :rockon2: