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August 2009
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The editors liked
Its the fastest Phenom ever
Socket stability and upgradeability
Great value for money
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AMDs 45nm silicon is running out of puff
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Published: 2009-08-13, Author: Peter , review by: icrontic.com
So where does that put the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition? In some cases, the Core i7 920 offers vastly more performance than it. The Core i7’s memory scores are around 40 percent higher than what the Phenom II pushes. That said, when it comes to gami...
The Phenom II X4 965 is a logical extension of AMD’s top of the line chips. The extra 200 MHz does come at a price though. While AMD may be having great success in yield and bins for this part, it does run hotter and pulls more power than the p...
Great Price/Performance, Nice Overclocking Headroom, Responds Well To Advanced Cooling Methods, Best Performance From AMD Weve Seen To Date, Fastest Frequency Out Of The Box Of Any Current Quad, Fun To Overclock Black Editions, Entire Top End Dragon Platf...
Hasnt Caught Up To Intel Core i7
CPU testing consists of more than just synthetic benchmarks, synthetic benchmarks are good for measuring performance differences between CPUs but it doesnt tell you a lot about real life performance. To that end we drove the Phenom 2 X4 965 BE in ev...
There were no surprises with the Phenom II X4 965 as it's identical to the 955 we tested months ago. The extra 200MHz were good for a small performance bump, widening the gap between AMD's flagship CPU and a comparatively priced Core 2 Quad processor....
Published: 2009-08-13, Author: Scott , review by: Techreport.com
So, this is a minor speed grade bump. I hope you werent expecting lightning and thunder. My sense is that AMD has taken a bit of a risk here by introducing a CPU with a 140W TDP at this point in time. They may take flak from some quarters for doing so...
Abstract: I’ve found myself in between two product launches. From AMD we have today’s announcement: the. Priced at $245, the 965 is a mere clock speed bump, but an important one. It comes at the same price as this spring’s Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition; you ge...
There is no doubt that the Phenom II 965 is a worthy sucessor to the 955 and definitely brings with it a healthy speed bump and some delightful additional overclocking headroom. The 965 is a good value and easily fits into a budget better than any pa...
AMDs new Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor proved to be a solid performer throughout our entire battery of benchmarks. In a handful of the tests that partially make up the PCMark Vantage suite, the 965 BE was even able to pull ahead of Intels...
The cool thing about new AMD processor releases is that theyve set an upper ceiling pricing wise. The most expensive processor is roughly 250 USD. As such the new 965BE processor can be purchased for 245 USD (suggested price = even lower in etail) an...
The benchmarks make it clear that our initial assessment was right-on: the Phenom II X4 965 BE is an incremental update to a strong mid- to upper-range processor family. An extra 200 MHz for the same $245 sweetens AMD’s platform story, which is alre...
