ssj12 on 17 March 2009
| Btay said: at ssj12 Phenom II X4 940 vs. the QX 9770 vs. the Core i7 965 Hardware Windup Battle of the Titans By Paul Taylor Wednesday, 17 December 2008, 10:45 THE UNQUESTIONABLE scoop of the day is at OCW. site has a comparison review of the Phenom II X4 940 vs. the QX 9770 vs. the Core i7 940. tests show the Phenom II to be very competent and, above all, it doesn't break the bank. In most games it'll equal the Core i7 940, but trail the QX 9770. Overclocking is also very good, as you can get some good overclocks (~800MHz) on air with this Phenom II. Considering it costs half of what costs the i7 and a quarter of a QX 9770, things might be looking up for AMD... we can 'ardly wait for those DDR3 versions of the Phenom II. http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/079/1050079/phenom-ii-x4-940-vs-the-qx-9770-vs-the-core-i7-965 if you want to see the comparisons http://my.ocworkbench.com/2008/asrock/ASRock-AOD790G-128M-running-Phenom-II-X4-940-overclocking/Phenom_II_X4-info-1.htm and yes the core i7 is faster but not buy a lot. is it worth the price? and yes they compare it to the i7 940 not the 920 |
You really cant go by benchmarks of the Core i7 because alot of games aren't programmed to handle the QPI properly resulting in abnormal performance changed versus the standard FSB based processors. There is no reason for the Core i7s to have very minimal gaming performance when system and memory benchmarks are through the roof. Its all basedmon the optimization of the games.
As for the article, the inquirer.. really... while their sources are good in the article the site itself isnt at all. Let reviews speak for themselves even though games aren't able to use Core i7's architecture properly yet. You linked 1 review, ill link another.
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2009/01/08/amd-phenom-ii-x4-940-and-920-review/1
