AMD 3.0GHz Quad Unlocked.. is AMD coming back ?

[bojangles]

Maybe, just MAYBE, AMD is working on a new chipset that "fuses" the power of the 4000 and 5000 series of GPUs with the next gen Phenoms to produce unprecedented power. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. lol. I could see this happening, though. That's the reason why AMD bought ATi. That's what the whole Spider platform was all about, but they couldn't get it going all that well...

[Linus]

I dunno. I think there might be a comeback in the works.

On an "unrelated" note, here's an AMD processor overclocking video.

AMD PH**** ** Overclocking Video - Linus Tech Tips Blog

[zlojack]

Nice clock on that mystery CPU

Do you think it has more headroom?

[Jmac]

I've been making heavy use of the Phenom 9950 BE lately due to its low price point compared to Intel's offerings (The last 2 9950s I used were $187 and $196 respectively when the Q6600 was going for $220 and $224). Both of them clocked up to at least 3 GHz without any increase in voltage (3.0 and 3.1 GHz respectively) and, because they're unlocked, I can use dirt cheap memory and not worry about compromising the overclock.

I've been pretty impressed with the motherboards as well (Gigabyte GA-MA770-DS3 and Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H) and, combined with 8/16 GB of memory and an HD 4830/4850, they are insanely quick in Vista, both systems were made for under $1200 before taxes.

The only thing I've found that's an issue is that AMD's Overdrive is not nearly as reliable as I hoped it would be. Actually, I had to reformat one of the computers because I couldn't remove the AMD Overdrive Assistant service, which kept overclocking on startup (I left it at 3.0 GHz, but the owner wanted to try 3.2 GHz), causing a BSOD and even manually setting the Multiplier in BIOS didn't prevent Overdrive from changing it.