Phenom video leaks from Lake Tahoe

Whats neat about the system tool is that it not only gives you controls on the CPU level, but your chipset, ram, and GPU as well. That's the neat thing about it. No longer having to go into the bios to fine tune your system, then having to restart your computer only to later find out that the settings you choose cause problems. It's pretty much your computers bios, riva tuner and your windows task manager all on one. The stress test, benchmark utility, and auto tune are also pretty neat.

 

Nope, that sound about right. It's a 2.2ghz Phenom compared to the people that get 15k with CF on a 3ghz Kentsfield.

 

That is indeed tasty...but you and me both know that software has a tendency to botch something up at the most unexpected moment. If this works out of the box and it works as its advertised though...the thing is very very cool.

 

Oh, you mean the "rather aggressive overclock" that's been demonstrated several times, and even exceeded by independent sources?

 

Independent sources as in who?Those experview dudes?I don't think you really want to support them as they were showing the Phenom to be worse clock-for-clock when compared to competing Intel chips and that might make you unhappy.

IIRC, ocworkbench have a 9500 or a 9600 that did a whopping 2.5 ghz ad 1.5 something volts. Yippee kiee yay(sp?)!That's under lackluster. All I've seen about 3Ghz comes from AMD. I have no doubt that some select chips hit that. I have a mountain of doubt that Joe Sixpack will go to the shop the day after tomorrow and grab a Phenom that'll do 3GHz through AMD's auto-overclock tool. Do you actually believe that?

They aren't releasing higher clocked chips(that are needed pronto) even though the average Phenom that'll ship tomorrow can do 3GHz? And they had issues releasing the 2.4Ghz part on time. And are waiting for a new B3 stepping that supposedly will allow proper clock ramping. But all of that is inconsequential, because two leaked marketing vids that show 3 friggin relevant pics amongst a throng of other usless thingies show one chip that hits 3GHz a click away.

I'd love for that to be true. I'd love for a 3GHz PhenomFX to be released tomorrow. I'd grab that in a second, just like I'll probably grab that 3870 X2 monster, simply because I fancy buying ding-dongy stuff...but what I'd love hardly jibes with what reality is pointing towards at this moment, and reality tends to be the prime determinant for my decisions. Is that not the same for you?

 

I am of course referring to expreview's infamous 3.33GHz Phenom O/C (one core). As for the performance, we'll see tomorrow.

I believe that given the proper hardware (i.e. Spider with decent memory & cooling) people have a fair chance at hitting 3GHz on Phenom starting tomorrow. I don't think everyone will be so lucky, but I may be joining the ranks of the lucky few to do so very soon, so we'll see.

 

So why do you suppose Intel isn't shipping it's chips at 3.5 or 4 ghz considering everyone says you can easily clock them up that far?

 

Half of that is they don't have to. They already clearly outclass every AMD chip available, they will likely continue to do that with the current line, let alone the update in Penryn. Then there's the fact that hardly anyone reaches 4Ghz, and a much more average OC is 3.3Ghz ~. No one but "wanna bes" claim they get that far half the time, half of those people not even having the hardware they claim to have reached 3.6Ghz with.

I don't understand why someone would choose a slower product for a application, or CLAIMS by the company trying to sell that platform. Its like you're falling for marketing. Its kind of sad in a way.

 

3DMark05 was used in the 2nd video. It can be seen at at 2:14.

 

Ludicrous. Why would AMD do something so incredibly stupid?

I'm on a P4 3.4 with an X1650 XT and a 17" LCD. It's about time for me to upgrade I've got a clear budget cap ($2500) I may as well use it and get the most powerful hardware I can afford. I plan to purchase a 24" 1920x1200 LCD and I need to buy hardware to power it. I'd prefer for that hardware to be from AMD, but if I have to go Intel + NV I'll do that.

 

You can get the newer 2.0.7 from MSI. I think 2.0.9 is what's current with 2.1.0 scheduled for RTM.

 

Yes, Crossfire HD 3870's scored 13k in 3dmark05.....

I think he just had it open in the background.

 

Macci confirmed it himself:

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2562400&postcount=29

 

Oh snap!

This is weird considering both of those scores can eaisly pass in 3dmark06.

 

WTF? That's screwed up right there. Seriously screwed up.

Damn assholes got my hopes up. If Spider doesn't seriously pwn tomorrow, I'm swearing off AMD until the Bulldozer/R800 generation at least.

 

Don't get your hopes up.
You're not gonna like this...

 

Nothing too bad about that. Apart from a couple of anomalies like the SATA write test (obviously wrong - the drive isn't that fast) and Bisoshock (LinkBoost?) it seems like a reasonably competitive product still a bit hampered by the aging SB.

Perhaps nothing to make an enthusiast want to run out to replace his nForce 590 SLI powered MB (with a 8800GTS and an Athlon X2) with a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6, but certainly nothing to spell doom&gloom for Spider as a platform either.

 

The main advantage of 790FX is the ability to use three or four HD 38xx's for tri and quad fire.

 

This is motherfuckingly painful...no, really, I actually was craving to finally have an AMD CPU:http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=3153&p=11. WTF?