Phenom II X4 970 BE 3.50 GHz

[Omega]

1.47 volts for a 3.9ghz wth

bios setting was actually ~1.425 V
either cpu-z reads it wrong or motherboard overvlots like crazy

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

if 1.425 thats just .25v more then stock voltage so you managed to get 100mhz more then my 965be with .25 less volts i need 1.45 bios to get 3900 1.525 to get 4000 so the chips not bad i suspect better cooling this MIGHT be slightly easier to get to 4ghz since there probably slightly better binned

 

[Omega]

stock voltage for 970 BE is 1.365 V

 

[crazyeyesreaper]

wow??? damn 965 C3 is 1.4v stock so thats damn good... v wise

 

[Anarchy0110]

I know this sounds really noob. But it's kinda good to see a new revision of Quad-Core Black Edition CPU from AMD with some decent advantage over the old 965. I'm not a serious overclocker even though this CPU is really easy for OC. High stock CPU speed always catches my attention along with some critical CPU techs.
And hey Price range to the i5 750 ??? 200+ bucks ???

 

[MrMilli]

Don't have the i5 760 at hand, sorry

I still think it's worth mentioning that in your conclusion even though you don't have a review sample. Also the i7 920 has been replaced by the i7 950.

I'll quote from a XBit review:
Comparing the Core i5-750 with the new model, we can also note that the latter has more aggressive Turbo Boost technology. The Core i5-750 could increase its frequency multiplier by 4 under low loads, reaching a clock rate of 3.2 GHz whereas the Core i5-760 can increase it by 5 and reach a clock rate of 3.46 GHz.

While the performance difference would be small, it still would be bigger than the difference between the P2 965 vs 970.

 

[Omega]

I agree.
But we work with whatever samples we have on our hands, and to draw assumptions about i5 760 or any other model not in charts would be "guessing", since I don't have the data to backup my claims.

It's left to readers to draw conclusions from the data we have.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

Not sure I really see the point of this given it sits in the price range of the 6 core processors, the only way I see the point in this is, if it's OEM, or if they sell it like the intel K series, and sell it without a heatsink, and drop the price about 30-40 dollars, then you would have something.

 

[Mad Russian]

I don't know why they were only able to get 3.9 ghz out of it, its effortless to get 4.0-4.2 ghz without any voltage modifications or extraordinary cooling, would've helped with the oc'd results I think, they were increasing the multiplier when they should have been decreasing it and increasing the fsb instead.