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From AnandTech:
AMD reduced their pricing late yesterday on the Phenom II X4 940 from $275 to $235 and the 920 model from $235 to $195. This new pricing scheme takes effect immediately. In fact, pricing at most of the e-tailors already reflect this decrease as we burned a hole in our wallet ordering a few retail samples for upcoming articles. We discovered in recent testing that the Phenom II X4 (could we not have gotten a better name) 940 compared favorably to the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9400 and the Phenom II X4 920 was a match for the Intel Core 2 Quad Q9300 in most cases.

Intel is now pricing the Q9400 at $213, a drop from $266, while the Q9300 will remain at $266 and essentially be phased out. This means the Phenom II X4 940 will be priced slightly higher than its main competition but lower than the Core 2 Quad Q9550, which drops in price from $316 to $266 - a battle the 940 simply could not have won at similar pricing. The Phenom II X4 920 now competes directly against the Core 2 Quad Q8300, which saw its price drop from $224 to $183. On a clock for clock basis, the 920 is a better value overall than the Q8300 at this point. In the meantime, if you need a really good board for your new Phenom II X4 920 but are on a strict budget, then we suggest this 790GX model from ASRock that is selling for $105 now.
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it's on the amd and old intel cpu not new ones(core i7)
 
How does the PhenomII 940 compare to the Q9400 or Q9450?
 
I would say more or less the same unless it can actually hit 3.8ghz easily on air then it would take the elad i would imagine as both those cpu's struggle to get stable at 3.4ghz-3.6ghz.
 
who actually buys the new stuff at more than R10,000 a chip ?
 
Plenty people keeper :) or they would not bother selling them :)

10k is nothing to someone earning 50k a month, its the same as 3 is a guy earning 12k or 15k.
 
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lol i did once ie the qx6700 :p

Shall be ocing the x4 920 tonight so shall let you know how high it can go. Stock cooler at the moment but will be putting a 120 extreme in tomorrow i hope.
 
QX6700RULZ said:
lol i did once ie the qx6700 :p

Shall be ocing the x4 920 tonight so shall let you know how high it can go. Stock cooler at the moment but will be putting a 120 extreme in tomorrow i hope.
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Still waiting for your thread, want to see if it would be better to go for a Phenom II instead of a Q9300/Q9400/Q9450. . .
 
Ghost02 said:
Still waiting for your thread, want to see if it would be better to go for a Phenom II instead of a Q9300/Q9400/Q9450. . .
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ouch will see what i can do but i do not have any of those chips to compare to. Any specific benchmarks ?

Doing vantage runs at the moment as i pump up the speed. Shall run vantage on a q9550 (running at 3.6) when and if i get the 920 to the same speed (9600gt vs 4850 so only cpu score will be used)

Anyway at 3.29 at the moment and time to go and see how it is doing

Will start my own thread when i have all the results
 
QX6700RULZ said:
ouch will see what i can do but i do not have any of those chips to compare to. Any specific benchmarks ?

Doing vantage runs at the moment as i pump up the speed. Shall run vantage on a q9550 (running at 3.6) when and if i get the 920 to the same speed (9600gt vs 4850 so only cpu score will be used)

Anyway at 3.29 at the moment and time to go and see how it is doing

Will start my own thread when i have all the results
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Thanks :D
 
Can't run vantage on the q9550 as it is an xp system (also work system) so i cannot mess with it (wife will kill me)

:)

Shall see what else i can do though
 
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