http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=15015&page=1
More pwnage I guess, nice mem bandwith. :cool:
Gaming performance seems out of whack though, obviously there are some driver issues there.
Originally posted at XS...
http://nl.babelfish.yahoo.com/translate_url?doit=done&tt=url&intl=1&fr=bf-home&trurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.hardspell.com%2Fdoc%2Fhard%2F79405.htm&lp=zt_en&btnTrUrl=Vertalen Translated from Chinese
(edit) - English version...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/core2quad-q9300_2.html#sect0
Compared to the Q6600, it's about 7% faster. Unfortunately, the 7.5x multiplier limits its overclocking potential, and 3.5GHz is about as far as you can go before hitting a FSB wall.
The low multiplier aside, it's not a...
http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/intel-wolfdale.html
Performance as expected has taken a step forward but what caught my eye was the exceptional power consumption!
:eek:
Not a bad overclocker either, the E8500 reached 4.37GHz on air, whilst the E8200 reached a more modest 3.88GHz...
http://techreport.com/articles.x/13741/1
The article also looks into the 'retail vs ES' performance issue, with reviewer samples running at 2GHz NB speed instead of 1.8GHz in the shipping Phenoms. Whilst the difference in performance between retail and ES is only slight, it's a shame the same...
http://www.techreport.com/discussions.x/13724
In summary, a BIOS fix will enable full stability on current shipping Phenoms, but with a 10% performance hit. Updated models without the TLB bug will be designated Phenom 9550 / 9650.
Also, it appears that retail Phenoms are slightly slower...
I also posted this over in the AMD forums as I believe it's relevant to both. Please, if you want to comment/troll :p on Phenom X4 performance, do it in the other thread. Here I want to focus on the points that are relevant to the Intel side.
Notes - Penryn shows NO performance gains over...
OK, good news first - Phenom overclocks to 3GHz on the B2 stepping - yay! :)
Now to the bad news - Performance is poor, 5 - 10% slower than C2D/C2Q. :(
http://news.expreview.com/2007-10-29/1193590532d6599.html
Specs:
C2D/C2Q using P35 mobo/ 8800GTX / WinXP / Forceware 169.01
Phenom X4 using...
What's the deal? Did [H] not get invited to the party? :o
I like reading [H] reviews for a change because of their different testing methodology, focusing on actual gameplay rather than pure framerates.
Not too flash in Cinebench unfortunately... clock for clock it is slower than Core2 in this benchmark.
http://www.dailytech.com/Quick+and+Dirty+AMD+K10+Cinebench/article7574.htm
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.pcpop.com%2Fdoc%2F0%2F168%2F168366.shtml&langpair=zh-CN%7Cen&hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&prev=%2Flanguage_tools
Translated using Google.
The site tested an X2 4400+ against an E6300. Power consumption and overall performance are very...
http://topic.expreview.com/2006-12-11/1165771666d1617.html
The link doesn't work with Firefox 2.0, but IE is fine.
Xtremesystems has a nice summary for the lazy ones out there. ;)
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=126278
Performance wise, it fares as expected...
Anyone seen ANYTHING? Apart from a CPU-Z screenshot that is, with some guy from Chile claiming to post overclocking results soon... and 2 days later... still nothing.
This must be the first ever 'launch' of a CPU that didn't coincide with matching reviews from hardware websites. What's going...
I'm not sure where this topic should be placed, the AMD or Intel forum, since it is related to both, but since most of the discussion regarding Conroe gaming performance has been in the Intel forum, I'll stick it here.
This is not meant to be an inflammotory post, but rather an observation...