3DMark06: Q6600 VS Agena 9600

[Wildside]

lol you guys are in such denial. What makes you think they wouldn't use an AM2+ 790FX board?

well there using the Nvidia driver i see instead of the ATI one lol.

im jk. Also too, doesnt AMD processors have their own drivers? I've been to AMD's site plenty of times n they clearly do have their own drivers.

so in conclusion, the only statment i can possibly make about this.......benchmark......is that the Phenom doesnt have the most recent driver for the CPU, AND the chipset 790X or 790FX.

 

[Trotter]

Early benchies never pan out. As Ste said, once it is in th channel, we'll get to see some solid benches of stock and OC chips.

 

[Wildside]

Early benchies never pan out. As Ste said, once it is in th channel, we'll get to see some solid benches of stock and OC chips.

i just hate it that ppl make judgements on Phenom or HD 3850 n 3870 just because of the early release benchmarks, it just makes me sick!

btw, the Phenom models 9600 n 9700 have a total differ watts to consume. The 9600 consumes 90w n the 9700 consumes 125w. I know this is full load or something, but wtf is up with this when the 2 models r 100MHz apart?

which one should i go for? I just want a good quad-core that i can OC a lot. I wont have my computer up n running by Q1-2 2008 is all i can say.

 

[Merkwürdigeliebe]

i just hate it that ppl make judgements on Phenom or HD 3850 n 3870 just because of the early release benchmarks, it just makes me sick!

btw, the Phenom models 9600 n 9700 have a total differ watts to consume. The 9600 consumes 90w n the 9700 consumes 125w. I know this is full load or something, but wtf is up with this when the 2 models r 100MHz apart?

which one should i go for? I just want a good quad-core that i can OC a lot. I wont have my computer up n running by Q1-2 2008 is all i can say.

lol, go for the Q6600 or Q9450, hahahahahaha

 

[Wildside]

lol, go for the Q6600 or Q9450, hahahahahaha

only if the Phenom turns out to be a bomb, then worst case senario would i go with Intel.

i game mostly so AMD is for me. Period.

 

[Nagasama]

lol, go for the Q6600 or Q9450, hahahahahaha

why would i drop my entire platform for (what seems to be) a miniscule difference in performance...? thats just stupid. and the jury's not even in yet. let me get my hands on one, and then i will make the decision.

 

[gurusan]

why would i drop my entire platform for (what seems to be) a miniscule difference in performance...? thats just stupid. and the jury's not even in yet. let me get my hands on one, and then i will make the decision.

So far the difference isn't miniscule...and you would be dropping an entire platform anyway because from what we've seen Agena is slowish on 590 boards.

 

[baron5]

this test wasnt exactly conducted as well as good have been. as said nobody runs that cpu with those timings and dont forget this is still on the am2 chipset

 

[baron5]

only if the Phenom turns out to be a bomb, then worst case senario would i go with Intel.

i game mostly so AMD is for me. Period.

as of now intel are easily better for gaming so amd will not always been known as the 'gaming' processor

 

[Apokalipse]

That's it. I'm getting a 9700. Then I'm going to overclock it.

When I get my 8800 GT, I'm gonna steal me back the 3dmark06 top spot for AMD systems.

I ordered an eVGA KO edition, but they didnt' have it in stock. But my order's still placed, so I'll be getting it when stock arrives.