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?

[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.

[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.

[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

[Ramjet]

Oh, should have mentioned, performance wise, after I fired it up, I put it on Poem, within 3 weeks, it was No. 12 in top hosts for the project (just chewing up those intel's !!), but since the big race, I've dropped back to No. 38. It can't compete with the 8 core zeon's I guess

[Brucifer]

Sure would be nice to see some project comparisons against the Q series quads. I'd like to get a new systems, a quad naturally, and I'd like to do an AMD one. But at the same time there's the old bang for the buck thing. It also looks like the newer Q series are using less electricity than the amd quads from what I've seen on the data sheets. ???