X4 9850 Black Edition

[Brucifer]

Does anyone have one yet???????

[SB2]

Does anyone have one yet???????

Yes, I have 1 ..... planning on more soon.

[mitchellds]

Oc'd it yet? Running on what MB ? How does it compare output wise to your best Q6600 cpu on a given project ?

[vaughan]

Ditto I'm also interested in what mobo you selected and why.

AMDave has bought a Phenom recently - see his current Riesel/Sierpinski Base 5 LLR/PRP scores. Hopefully he'll see this thread and respond.

Danish Dynamite - what board did you get? Was it an MSI?

[AMDave]

AMDave has bought a Phenom recently - see his current Riesel/Sierpinski Base 5 LLR/PRP scores. Hopefully he'll see this thread and respond.

I have:
the Phenom 9750 (stock CPU fan)
with 2GB DUAL DDR2 RAM (it can take 8GB - and it will later on ;) )
500GB HDD
512MB NVIDIA 9600GT (I have 2 AMD cards as well so don't flame me) giving it's best to a
22" ViewSonic VA2226w LCD screen (really great picture at 1680x1050)
all held together by the ASUS M3A78-EH motherboard.

I was not sure about this mobo to start with.
I was originally intending on getting the cheaper M2N-MX-SE.
the ASUS M3A78-EH is holding up very nicely in terms of compatibility, expansion and stability so far.

I had a rattle in the case, but once I tracked that down it has become really quiet.
It's sitting on my desk 6 inches from me at the moment and all I can hear is the fans in my son's older PC 4 feet away.

I no longer o/c
the expense to replace a CPU is not as much a problem as the inconvenience
and now there are 4 cores on a die the impact is greater.

Fedora 9 x86_64, if anyone is interested.

[Danish Dynamite]

Ditto I'm also interested in what mobo you selected and why.

AMDave has bought a Phenom recently - see his current Riesel/Sierpinski Base 5 LLR/PRP scores. Hopefully he'll see this thread and respond.

Danish Dynamite - what board did you get? Was it an MSI?

MSI K9A2 CF-F (you will need at least bios version 1.5 for phenom)

[Frederic Brillouet]

I have the K9A2 Platinum, anyone care to donate a phenom? for testing purposes

[liuqyn]

I'm waiting on the 9X50's until the new MBs with the 750 southbridge come out. supposed to overclock much better.

side note, kinda short on funds now anyway.

[SB2]

MB is the ASUS M3A, (it was a cpu/motherboard bundle special sale). I do not overclock my machines, too many machines to deal with and cooling is enough of a problem without adding more time and expense by overclocking.

So far, I have only run Milkyway and SOB on the machine. SOB is hard to compare machine to machine as the rate differs greatly from one k/n pair to another k/n pair. But on Milkyway it is about 20% to 25% faster than my Q6600's.

I think the next test will be on OGR-25, I really want to see how it compares to the Q6600's on this project.

[Ramjet]

I am running one X4 9850 at 3.0 Ghz on an MSI K9A2 Platinum, 2 Gb Corsair Dominator, Works great, no regrets here