AMD Phenom CPU's

[MielieSpoor]

Does anybody have an AMD Phenom CPU running in a machine somewhere? If so what is your opinion of the CPU's performance?

I'm interested in the 9500 or the 9600 not the 3 core ones.

 

[killadoob]

get it man if it fits in your budget buy it

not as good as the intel q6600 or 9300 but still a good cpu

i know a guy who has one but he is an amd die hard fanboi and only buys amd

for the price though i think the amd quadcores are very good

 

[Thestealth]

I'm running one in my 2nd machine and it works brilliantly. Processing power is super and it runs all app's flawlessly. I can't comment on the Q6600/9300's cause I've never used either of them. Personally, I think it's good value for money and it runs brilliantly.

On a side note: To extract the most of them, you need to run it on a mobo running a ATI 790/7** chipset with 1066Mhz DDR ram.

 

[killadoob]

stealth could u run some benchies with 3dmark and pm me the cpu score plz

i miss amd cpu's would love to try amd again soon cause im bored of intel

 

[Thestealth]

Killadoob: I'm running Server 2003 on it ATM, off hand I don't know if 3dmark/pcmark will work on that platform. Can you perhaps help me with that one?

 

[killadoob]

eina i dont think so lol

 

[sdd]

I checked out the prices of the AMD quad and they are very competitively priced. I see AMD is fighting Intel on price ... as was expected.

 

[killadoob]

pity about not fighting for performance part

 

[Thestealth]

Windows XP 64 SP2 - 3D Mark2006
11520 points

Spec:

AMD Phenom 9600BE
Asus M3A32 MVP Deluxe Mobo
2*1Gb DDR 800 (D/Channel)
8800 GTS 320 (the one I bought from you!)
250Gb SATA II HDD
Lousy 17" CRT Phillips
750W ThermalTake TT

Nothing else fancy, only chipset drivers, vga drivers and sound drivers installed.