Forceman Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Funny how most people loved AMD and now they are behind in benchmarks most people think their doomed. True quad core, true 64bit at a lower price, seems more people are bothered about how many fps they get than anything else. That would completely cramp the style. Sticking manufacturer logos all over a nice Mac.BTW, check out the Phenom box. The purple ray looks like the Leopard aurora: Terrible mind set you have, can anyone use purple or space scenes now that Leopard uses them, it's not like they invented it is it?You can't have blue and green together, OMG it's a Vista ripoff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 I was just kidding.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headrush69 Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 True quad core, true 64bit at a lower price, seems more people are bothered about how many fps they get than anything else. Isn't that what is important? Most users don't care what the clock speed is or how many cores a CPU has, all that matters is end user performance. (However you want to evaluate it.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Yeah, does anyone have a Phenom system running OS X? If so, any Xbench scores? P.S. I give AMD full credit for the name...Phenom, now thats a cool name for a processor. The Intel "Penryn" sounds like a geek toy (even though it has awesome performance). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Urbz Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 well thats exactly why they gave it that name... Penryn IS a geek toy! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
robotskip Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Also, aren't they have manufacturing problems with the Phenom too? I do feel bad for AMD, I remember like 7 years ago when my friends and I all started going with AMDs because they were cheaper and out-performed Intel and a lot of people were just kind of sick of Intel. Did anyone here have the XP2500+ CPU? That thing was a beast for overclocking. Now.. Intel rocks, thanks to AMD for making them step up. My current processor is an E6300 and I just ordered an E6750 with my new system, woo. To tell you the truth, I barely even considered AMD for this system. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Nice to see that you are participating in smart discussion, robotskip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted December 8, 2007 Share Posted December 8, 2007 Time to upgrade from my 3800+ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted December 8, 2007 Author Share Posted December 8, 2007 Lookie here people, Phenom has a boo-boo: http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.a...-produdct-delay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vbetts Posted December 9, 2007 Share Posted December 9, 2007 Yeah, there's a bug in the phenom currently. Most users don't care what the clock speed is Most average users. But this can also be said not to be true, because people will try to sell it to them that a higher clocked cpu will be faster, like saying a dual core amd at 2.5 ghz cpu is faster than a core 2 duo at 2.3 ghz. or how many cores a CPU has Average users again. Think about people who do know what they're doing with computers and have a demand for one with performance. A single core won't do anything for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dainas Posted December 10, 2007 Share Posted December 10, 2007 The worse thing about this is that the B3 revision will just be what we saw in the most positive reviews of the Phenom(overclocked engineer samples running test that would not show the errata), not a speed bump. The only way B3 is different to anyone is the poor sods who bought B2 phenoms. Q1/Q2 going by all hints divulged will NOT be when AMD gets back in the black performance wise. Intel is just toying with them now and will be most likely throughout 2008 :censored2: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SAKIYAKI Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Lookie here people, Phenom has a boo-boo: http://arstechnica.com/journals/hardware.a...-produdct-delay I like my phenom. Its very reliable. My pc before this was a Q6600 and it was very load. It crashed on me and had it sent back to gateway 2 times! after that I was able to get a refund from best buy to get a new pc. The phenom is super quite as I need that for my music studio. I do see a small speed differance. Phenum has a better thread rate. I convert alot of music and video and I do see it running faster in that area. Other than that the gateway fx7020 was a very good deal. but will it run osx86 natively??? Keeps rebooting on me. I got picks of the errers if anybodys interested. p.s O bye the way ~pcwiz, I did get 10.5 to work on vmware with Marvins on my phenom, Its pretty slow like g4. The Tiger version works farely good. Its a good test to see if I likey and I do! Thanks Gateway FX7020 Processor: AMD Phenom 9600 / 2.3 GHz True-Quad-Core Mother Board: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 SE Memmory: 3GB DDR II SDRAM 667mhz Hard Drives: WD 500GB Caviar Sata WD 500GB Caviar Sata Green Power DVD-RW: Optiarc AD-7173A ATA Video: Evga NVIDIA GeForce 8800GT GDDR3 SDRAM 512mb Sound Card: Integrated Network Adapter: NVIDIA nForce Networking Controller (on-board) Sound: Realtek High Definition Audio/M-Audio Fast Track NVIDIA nForce Serial ATA Controller Sata Hardware Ids PCI\VEN 0x03F6&SUBSYS_26061019&REV_A2 0x03F6&SUBSYS_26061019 0x03F6&CC_010185 0x03F6&CC_0101 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 i'll wait for the next cpu stepping with ddrIII and so on i'm fully satisfied with my rig right now @saki: as long as your chipset is nf4xx you'll be fine with medevil kext what errors do you get? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forceman Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 Isn't that what is important? Most users don't care what the clock speed is or how many cores a CPU has, all that matters is end user performance. (However you want to evaluate it.) So a fake Ferrari goes quicker than a real one, which do you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 10, 2008 Share Posted April 10, 2008 quicker... wait for proper cpu drivers to be released when x2 was released, w/out a proper driver its performance was poor. and, for others waiting a xbench, xbench is not good.. i mean.. i have a core 2 duo 1.6 and it took about 70 points more than my amd rig, but infact it's a lot slower in overall performance... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
~pcwiz Posted April 10, 2008 Author Share Posted April 10, 2008 Old thread diggers SAKIYAKI, I love my Q6600 G0 processor. Never overheated on me before! I'm using the stock cooler and its 25 C for each core and 45 C overall. And at the highest peaks the max it ever goes is around 50 C, and this is with a stock cooler with no watercooling or anything Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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