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<blockquote data-quote="ALPHA17" data-source="post: 1306365" data-attributes="member: 33927"><p>^^</p><p></p><p>The reviews show that the overtime matured silicon harvesting process has created an overall competent piece released with the last Deneb based Phenom IIx4 975 + it OC's well to for a standard Athlon II piece. </p><p></p><p><strong>After some surprisingly strong results from our Phenom II X6 1100T, we were hoping to achieve some very high northbridge clock speeds on the Phenom II X4 975 BE, but regrettably it fell a little short of our expectations. Ironically, even the lower-end Phenom II X4 840 proved to be a slightly better performer in this respect. Nevertheless, if you can increase your Phenom II's northbridge frequency from 2000Mhz to 2700Mhz, do so since the performance improvements are very worthwhile. </strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p><strong>If you're building a new system from scratch, go for a Sandy Bridge processor, there's no doubt about it's performance superiority and great Bang-for-the-Buck. However, if you currently have an AM2+/AM3 system with a single or dual-core processor, we have absolutely no qualms recommending the new Phenom II X4 840. It would be a $100 well spent in our opinion and is also forwards compatible with the upcoming AM3+ boards. Having said that, if you are an AMD enthusiast with an eye towards the higher-end Phenom II X4 and X6 models, we would recommend that you wait a bit, since we suspect that AMD is going to do a few price cuts in the not too distant future.</strong></p><p><strong></strong></p><p></p><p><a href="http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/38988-amd-phenom-ii-x4-840-x4-975-black-edition-processors-review-17.html" target="_blank">AMD Phenom II X4 840 & X4 975 Black Edition Processors Review - Page 17</a></p><p><a href="http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=88" target="_blank">http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=88</a> -- <strong>this bench link shows that the Athlon IIx4 pretty much catches up to the Phenom IIx4 955 making the former much more sensible, the L3 cache doesn't seem to make much of a difference.</strong></p><p></p><p>I'm not arguing that the Phenom IIx4 840 is better or worse, in my view it makes more sense (<u>VFM, I'm not sure about the prices so it is a wait game</u>). Cheers <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ALPHA17, post: 1306365, member: 33927"] ^^ The reviews show that the overtime matured silicon harvesting process has created an overall competent piece released with the last Deneb based Phenom IIx4 975 + it OC's well to for a standard Athlon II piece. [B]After some surprisingly strong results from our Phenom II X6 1100T, we were hoping to achieve some very high northbridge clock speeds on the Phenom II X4 975 BE, but regrettably it fell a little short of our expectations. Ironically, even the lower-end Phenom II X4 840 proved to be a slightly better performer in this respect. Nevertheless, if you can increase your Phenom II's northbridge frequency from 2000Mhz to 2700Mhz, do so since the performance improvements are very worthwhile. If you're building a new system from scratch, go for a Sandy Bridge processor, there's no doubt about it's performance superiority and great Bang-for-the-Buck. However, if you currently have an AM2+/AM3 system with a single or dual-core processor, we have absolutely no qualms recommending the new Phenom II X4 840. It would be a $100 well spent in our opinion and is also forwards compatible with the upcoming AM3+ boards. Having said that, if you are an AMD enthusiast with an eye towards the higher-end Phenom II X4 and X6 models, we would recommend that you wait a bit, since we suspect that AMD is going to do a few price cuts in the not too distant future. [/B] [url=http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/38988-amd-phenom-ii-x4-840-x4-975-black-edition-processors-review-17.html]AMD Phenom II X4 840 & X4 975 Black Edition Processors Review - Page 17[/url] [URL="http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=88"]http://www.anandtech.com/bench/Product/188?vs=88[/URL] -- [B]this bench link shows that the Athlon IIx4 pretty much catches up to the Phenom IIx4 955 making the former much more sensible, the L3 cache doesn't seem to make much of a difference.[/B] I'm not arguing that the Phenom IIx4 840 is better or worse, in my view it makes more sense ([U]VFM, I'm not sure about the prices so it is a wait game[/U]). Cheers :). [/QUOTE]
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