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Phenom II 955 Black Edition

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PERFORMANCE:

79%

OVERCLOCKABILITY:

80%

VALUE:

75%

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Wrapping Up

All in all the Phenom II 955 Black Edition chip is a nice option if you've $US265 to spend, but if you're anything like us we'd be saving up for a new Nehalem rig - the difference is worth the wait.

X4 955	200x13; DDR3-1333 7-7-7-21	217x13; DDR3-1446 7-7-7-21	230x13; DDR3-1532 7-7-7-21
PiFast	33.77s	31.28s	29.52s
wPrime 32M - single thread	44.351s	41.044s	39.047s
wPrime 32M - multi-thread	11.731s (3.78x efficiency)	10.686s (3.84x)	10.047s (3.88x)
CineBench R10 64-bit - single thread	2913	3151	3345
CineBench R10 64-bit - multi-thread	10438 (3.58x efficiency)	11343 (3.60x)	12016 (3.59x)
Everest Read	8432MB/s	9130MB/s	9484MB/s
Everest Write	6772MB/s	7329MB/s	7769MB/s
Everest Latency	51.3ns	47.4ns	45.7ns

Updated stock heatsink!

We also got a new stock heatsink with this chip, and found that we could only push it to 3440MHz before it'd become unstable. At stock it ran idle temps of 39 degrees with 66.4dBA, and load was 56 degrees at 75.1dBA - definitely get yourself an aftermarket cooler with this annoyingly loud cooler.

Head to the next pages for benchmark screenies, and the gallery to see the heatsink in all it's adequacy!

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11 Comments

RaRaDawg Apr 24, 2009 5:57 PM	Nah...i7 975 would pwn everything when it comes out... Intel doesn't have to act for a loooooooooong time.
nesquick Apr 24, 2009 6:13 PM	Is 3.9 all you got out of it? their flagship chip cant even beat most i7 920's? thats just laughable sorry to say especially at such high vcore.
Trekker Apr 24, 2009 6:29 PM	amd good. intel bad... now amd bad ..... intel good... see what happens in a year or 2.. intel all the way.
t8y Apr 24, 2009 6:37 PM	ill reserve judgement until i see results on standard air, high end air, water, and sub zero.. havnt seen a stock amd heatsink since the athlonxp days though, they look pretty decent (after a lapping perhaps..), better than the tiny copper slugged crap intel are giving away at least
MagnumXY Apr 24, 2009 6:40 PM	looks like a really great stock heatsink
Argotha Apr 24, 2009 11:02 PM	And we were all excited after the last article :(
TheFrunj Apr 25, 2009 12:32 AM	nesquick, overclockersclub got their chip to just below my overclock: "So the final settings I ran for the overclock were 3.795GHz at 1.5v and memory speeds of 1366MHz at 7-7-7-20 timings" Anandtech got theirs slightly higher, most likely thanks to a better-behaving chip: "Our maximum CPU/HT Ref Clock settings resulted in a final processor speed of 3.907GHz." Disappointing, really :( -JR
nesquick Apr 25, 2009 7:08 AM	wow, you would think big name reviewers would get sent cherry picked samples but it seems they didn't which is good and bad :/
scottath May 10, 2009 2:59 PM	Thinking of changing my Q6600 for one of these... What board was the testing done on? If it wasnt a DDR2 board - what would you recommend for it?
Doctor_Death Jul 30, 2009 1:59 AM	From what I understand they hit over 7 GHz on LN2 with this chip.
LETINMAD Aug 2, 2010 3:29 PM	Very in depth.

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