Simviation Forum - Phenom x955 is good

Aug 31^st, 2009 at 1:55pm

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Just to tell that I have just finished a rebuild with a AMD Phenom 955 and Asus board - and it really fly's and gives lovely results. The whole job was no expensive with the chippy, board Asus M4A78T E, OS (Vista 64), Graphics card ATI 4850 and 4 meg 1600 ram Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600

Beats up my old system

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Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2009 at 3:51am

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Glad to hear, Yes I have that Chip, I LOVE IT. Cheesy

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Reply #2 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 6:39am

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Yep, it´s really good bang for the buck. But i have´nt got it higher than 3,6 overclocked. I have a ASUS M4N78 Pro board.

/Daniel

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Reply #3 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 7:30am

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Yep, it´s really good bang for the buck. But i have´nt got it higher than 3,6 overclocked. I have a ASUS M4N78 Pro board.

/Daniel

You got black edition yes? I can't get mine past 2.5Ghz Grin

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Reply #4 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 8:12am

Daniel Holm Ex Member

Mazza wrote on Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 7:30am:

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Yep, it´s really good bang for the buck. But i have´nt got it higher than 3,6 overclocked. I have a ASUS M4N78 Pro board.

/Daniel

You got black edition yes? I can't get mine past 2.5Ghz Grin

Yep, i have.

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Reply #5 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 2:25pm

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I think ou can push the chippy to 3.7 - I ave not bothered - its fast enough
Well chuffed!!

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Reply #6 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 2:45pm

Daniel Holm Ex Member

Yeah, i´m thinking of 3.7. Will look in to it in the weekend and report back.

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Reply #7 - Sep 3^rd, 2009 at 4:41pm

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yeah the chip is awesome. I did have it up to around 3.6 just by changing the multiplier. Then i decided to lower the multiplier and up the FSB on it. I started getting driver errors (some ATI error) i reverted to stock and all was good.

Be sure to get a good cooler though. the Phenom II doesn't like temps above 62C. Mine usually idles around 32C but can go as low as 28C with the "Cool and Quiet" thing enabled.

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Reply #8 - Sep 4^th, 2009 at 3:16am