AMD's Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition

[vashtinone]

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AnandTech: AMD's Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-965,2389.html

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Final Words

Without a doubt the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is faster than anything you can get that fits into an LGA-775 socket at a remotely similar price point. AMD has done its duty well there, the 965 is clearly a better option than the Q9550 or Q9650 for that matter.

As a gaming CPU, it's actually competitive with the i7s. If you exclude the FarCry 2 results, which I hardly believe are representative of most games, the Phenom II X4 965 is easily just as good of a gaming CPU as an i7 in today's titles. Now once you start throwing in background tasks and look at future titles being more threaded then the picture becomes a little more muddy.

Overall application performance is very good from the 965's perspective. It's only in a handful of 3D or well threaded apps where we see the i7 really pull away. The 965 BE is competitive, just not faster.

All in all, I like the Phenom II X4 965 BE. It is a good performer and if you can get the price right then it makes sense. The problem is that AMD is defending a hotly contested segment with this processor at $245.

When it comes down to it, between the 965 BE and an i7 920, I still opt for the 920. The 965BE does have a lower total cost of ownership so the real question is how well does it stack up against the Lynnfield chips. Based on our preliminary results, I'd expect the race to be reasonably close between the 965 BE and the Core i5 750 but the i7 850 may prove to be the sweet spot at only $40 more.

The clear response would then for AMD to drop prices - I believe at $199 the 965 BE would easily remain competitive. The situation we find ourselves in today is that AMD has a good enough architecture to remain competitive, albeit at more affordable price points. Thankfully for AMD's sake, regardless of what Intel does, there's always a price point where Phenom II seems to make sense.

The question is will this be enough to last AMD throughout 2010 before we see a real change in architecture?

Phenom II now really competes and outperformed Core 2 Quad procs..
That's AMD Phenom II for yah!!

[insect111]

congrats amd hehehe. karon pa man nagpagawas ang amd, nakapadato na ang intel sa ila core 2 duos and quads.

[reishoto]

wats nice with this is that its clocked high already so, point vs. point vs. lga775, it actually proves better. the problem is, lga775 can overclock pretty decently. even the BE, because kay AMD man gud, at air cooling, gamay ra headroom for OC. the bragging right may not be available for u, hehehe.

then again, the architecture might prove to be of help. n im an AMD fan..

[darkwing]

holy cow, pila ni siya dinhi

[vashtinone]

$245 mn sa gawas, so more or less 12k-13k na dri...

[centax error]

maynta less than 10k aron tsada kay doul naman ang price sa i7. murag same raman ni sa 955BE but higher binned ra cguro neh

[vashtinone]

^^adto lng order sa China master CE.. hehehe..

[reishoto]

one sa tpc @ 15k man oi, hehehe.. bushlot man pud ato bulsa ani... hehehe

[centax error]

one sa tpc @ 15k man oi, hehehe.. bushlot man pud ato bulsa ani...
hehehe

X2 550BE na lang hehe kay tag 5.8k ra then unlock the 2 cores aron ma X4 prehas kang dmelsie....nihit na lang pangitaon ang batches na guarantee ma unlock and stable

[reishoto]

golden fingers club gyud tong bataa...