Phenom X4-9500 @ 3GHZ

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Phenom X4-9500 @ 3GHZ by MOFO64

Well, I've been at this setup for a few days now and have finally managed to tame this 9500

MOFO64 presents the worlds first RETAIL oc'd B1 9500 to reach 3GHZ


Now, what's the story I hear you ask..

Well.....I gave up with the M2N-SLi and switched over to the MSi 790X.

After many hours of trying lots of settings, MOFO is proud to announce that this phenom (and others aswell no doubt) can hit 3ghz (albeit very unstable).
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Unstable is not good, but it's still a hell of an achievement in an epeni kind of way. :)
 
Unstable doesn't really count though, does it. Does that just means it gets past POST? Does it even boot into Windows? Can it run any heavy app a game or video encoding?

When are we going to see Phenoms like the one you posted the video of? The one where you click on one app, and all cores automatically upclock to 3 ghz and your games run twice as fast as they did before?

AMD needs to get Phenom running at a stable 3 ghz on quiet/normal air cooling before it stops pulling the whole Spider platform down. Without a good CPU, people are going to buy Intel, and the motherboard to go with it. What AMD have got now in Phenom is just not good enough.
 
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What is the cooling setup? Phase change, chilled water?

It needs a pretty significant overvolt and subambient cooling to hit an unstable 3 GHz?

Cripes, that compares badly to Core2.
 
What a wothless comment. I dont think there is one person in their right mind who would take an unstable fast computer over a marginally slower one that is sturdy as a rock.
 
3dilettante said:
What is the cooling setup? Phase change, chilled water?

It needs a pretty significant overvolt and subambient cooling to hit an unstable 3 GHz?

Cripes, that compares badly to Core2.
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IIRC, it was phase(or Dice, but I wasn't looking very attentively). And the shots he posted vere at 2904 actually, not 3. As a techie thing it's nice, as an indicative for the Phenom architecture it's crap. Having to use phase or Dice for an 800 Mhz overclock seems fairly extreme, in the world of G0 Q6600s that do a gig extra on air quite easily, and the new Penryns hitting 4.5 on water and 5.6 on Dice.

It seems that AMDs ramp-up on 65nm is still painful, and the news of the PhenomFX being moved from 1Q 2008 to 1H 2008 aren't helping. Another worrisome thing is that I've seen the 2.6Ghz Penryn coming in January tentatively priced at 316$(in 1000 quantities bla bla), whilst AMD is aiming the 2.6Ghz 9900 somewhere in the sub-350 area...if it ends similarly priced to the Penryn, it'll get eaten alive IMHO. The trouble is that, going by what we're seeing now, with only the ludicrously clocked 9500 available to any significant extent, the limpy overclocks, the thermals, power draw, schedule reshuffling, they seem to be yielding quite poorly, which by extension means they can't quite price these competitively without running the risk of not making any money off of em. A tight spot for AMD it is...it'll be interesting to see what they'll do to turn things around/if they manage to turn em around.
 
Heh. I have a Q6600 G0 at 3.5 GHz on 1.36-1.4v (board voltage varies a good bit depending on load). Just air cooling here.....

Intel is the way to go if you are an overclocker. Heck, if you are just happy with stock, Intel is still the way to go. Personally I find it fun to see how far I can push a Core 2 on stock volts. I have an E4300 doing a 1 GHz overclock (1.8 -> 2.8GHz) on just that and stock cooling.

I'm pretty disappointed in their progress over at AMD...
 
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