http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/made in malaysia]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:17PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Intel_manufacturing_sites]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
* Cavite, Philippines
* Pudong, China
* Chengdu, China
* Penang, Malaysia
* Kulim, Malaysia
* San Jose, Costa Rica
* Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

There's that Malaysia place again.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
AMD is based in California.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
I bought a E7400 for $99 that easily overclocked to 3.8ghz.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 6:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/intel also has a factory in malaysia]]>Apr 23rd 2009 7:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/They have two.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 10:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/amd cpus run much faster at lower clock speeds than intel cpus
]]>Apr 23rd 2009 11:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/You see the "X4" after the Phenom II? Aka 4 cores, and you're comparing it to a Core 2 Duo? lolwut?]]>Apr 24th 2009 11:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
More price cuts this way :)]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 7:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 10:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
Try telling that to the netbook crowd that sees them on the Home Shopping Network (HSN).]]>Apr 24th 2009 2:15AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
@ Chuckles

Now lets go back and actually read the review and you will clearly see that it was only 3 to 9% behind the i7 920. It was also ahead of the Core 2 (Duo and Quad) by a good margin. Considering it is $245 and the i7 920 is $295 right now, that is pretty damn competitive to me. Yes it falls below the $500 i7 940, but it is half the price and only 15% behind. And no desktop processor will compete with the i7 965 extreme which is why it is $1000+. So for us normal folk, this is a great processor.

And for the one guy who will say something @ me who actually has that $1000+ monster of a processor in his computer......since you got money to burn, let me hold $445 for my Phenom II upgrades.]]>Apr 25th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Oh heck I'll answer it for everyone-apparently the wafer is made at a fab in Germany then shipped all the way to Malaysia for packaging. ]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 6:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
Wait for it... wait for it... nooooot yet.... almost there...]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/You could overclock them to 9GHz.]]>Apr 24th 2009 7:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 24th 2009 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
ATI have great drivers on the linux side nowadays, my AMD 780g chipset motherboard with ATI 3200 on board ran linux, desktop composition etc. without a hitch and catalyst control center is well implemented too :)]]>Apr 23rd 2009 6:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
@Aaronage, XMBC linux editions recently included the required code to allow hardware decoding of H.264 content through nvidia gpu's, which means that a low-power intel cpu and onboard nvidia gpu can produce flawless 1080p playback. No such luck for ATI gpu decoding yet afaik]]>Apr 23rd 2009 7:37PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 4:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
The Phenom II line of chips are really quite amazing.

http://yipcanjo.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/gettin-jiggy-with-the-new-home-pc/]]>Apr 23rd 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/

]]>Apr 23rd 2009 5:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/
Overall, yeah they need to step things up in R&D, but the ATI merger is still hitting them in the pocket and their smaller marketshare means they just don't have the revenue stream intel does for them to reinvest back into development. The only way they're gonna get better is if people don't just give up on them.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 5:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 24th 2009 6:47AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Maybe a little more, but the jump in performance is much, much greater than the difference in cost. Could however spend 250 on a previous generation and still get amazing performance. ]]>Apr 23rd 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 5:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Initially the intel motherboards were all expensive high end boards but that's not the case anymore. Admittedly not as cheap as an older AMD board is going to be, but if you're building a new system I doubt many people are going to buy an old AM2 socket board anyway-it wouldn't be very future-proof.

And the i7 920 has been as cheap as $199 before:
http://forums.slickdeals.net/showthread.php?t=1273119

So budget i7 is a reality now.]]>Apr 23rd 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/23/amd-phenom-ii-x4-955-and-945-benchmarked-to-high-heaven/Apr 23rd 2009 7:24PM