Majority of real Phenom Users are Very Happy

The majority of these Phenom users are very happy judging by these customer reviews. Could it be that evil Intel is paying for negative reviews? Once AMD release the higher clocked Phenoms on the B3 stepping, Intel are in big trouble I believe.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] lse&Page=1

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AM&tool=3

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/show [...] -AM&tool=3

Phenom for Real native Quad Core! AMD4Life!

Dude, give it up. I'm an AMD fan, but I don't resort to these kinds of things. Most reviews on those sites are going to be positive unless the processor is a completely unstable piece of junk or doesn't work.

Well, for a budget quad-core system they are working well. I just built a Phenom system last week for some video work and testing. It is running very well.

Specs:
ASUS 690G Motherboard
Phenom 9500
XFX 8800GST 320
2GB of A-DATA DDR2 800
Antec earthwatts 430

At all stock settings with anti-virus going it scored 10k in 3DMark06. I thought that was great for stock settings. The CPU Marks were right near 4000.

gee, this seems like unbiased and credible evidence to support the conclusion that AMD is beating Intel and Intel is paying people to go on random online stores to criticize AMD's processors.

Anyone who takes shopping site reviews seriously generally gets what they deserve. In this case, inferior, defective tech.

EPS 1.05
Volume 63,492,016
Avg. Daily Volume 60,421,755
Market Value $133,253,130,000
Shares Outstanding 5,847,000,000

I disagree.

And that -4 next to AMD's EPS is not good.

AMD
EPS -4
Volume 16,834,023
Avg. Daily Volume 24,738,265
Market Value $3,477,166,440
Shares Outstanding 554,572,000

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While I take user reviews like these with a grain of salt, the initial reports about the TLB bug and Phenom's poor performance is, like most things in this forum, overhyped and blown out of proportion. And, as with most things, the truth comes out in time. I for one am not surprised that the majority of Phenom owners who are not into virtualization are having a positive experience with a noticeable performance increase over previous gen AM2 procs.

The Intel fanboys can chirp and cluck all they want, but less than $200USD for a quad core is hard for any real enthusiast to not look twice.

Spoken like a genuine troll.

Ahh yes, lets read some of those reviews, shall we?

Mr BLunTeD gave a five star rating

Amazing! Mr AMD4Ever has had his Phenom for over 1 whole year!!

Hmmm, Mr BlackPanther gave fives stars while noting a "bug with this CPU"....doesnt mention actually owning one though....interesting

Tim from NJ doesnt own his yet, but gave it 5 stars anyway

Serge84, calling Serge84, do you or do you not own one? Hmmm, well this clearly isnt a review of something he owns, but he gave it 5 stars just for good measure.

Hmmmm, dont see Mr "We Stand by AMD" actually talking about a product he owns, but that dosnt syop him from giving it 5 stars anyway

Well, ol' Jay5435 wasnt giving a review of a product he owns, just responding to BlackPanther, but he gave it 5 stars anyway

alex clearly owns one -----NOT, but hey, while asking a question, why not throw in a five star rating for good measure

OK, at this point, Im bored reading through the non reviews from non owner corporate Phanboys.
Of 82 people who gave 5 star reviews, 49 were not verifed as having purchased the product. Of those 33 who were verified ownership (they actually bought the product from newegg) , ownership times were:
less than one day: 6
one day to one week: 13
one week to one month 13
one month to one year 1

The negative reviews are mostly from Intel phanboy non owners

9 inch, you're treading the misreprestation line again. You dont care, but dont be suprised when I fix your problem. This post, like your others is phanboy-flame crap. I dont normally care, as its fun to watch you present bogus data and get mercilessly pwned regardless of who you may or may not be shilling for, but this one misrepresents-misrepresented opinions. Im not anywhere near as forgiving or patient as Jake is....so stick to your Intel is evil schtick, and your out of date or incomplete information you willl have to find a new proxy.

turpit

The only thing wrong with the Phenom is it's not better than Intel's quad.

It's priced well though so if you need quad core it's a good deal.

At least until Intel's 45nm low range quads come out, then it's going to be a hard sell for AMD without cutting prices even more...

So now we know who Thunderman is, at least those of us who have been around long enough to remember 9 inch.

just by reading the way thunderman types, he is clearly shakirou...

I dunno who 9inch even is? lol

When AMD release the supposed Black edition Phenom, It will wipe the floor of Intel Extreme Edition Quads. Both have unlocked multi-pliers ......one will be a fraction of the cost.

AMD4Life

I wrote my own review of the 9600 on newegg after getting one for a 1p server at work, it reads...

rated 5/5

/quote
ragemonkey
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 week to 1 month 12/28/2007 7:13:42 PM Much Maligned but works great


Pros: Drop in replacement for a 1p server with an Opteron 1216. Big difference noticed over the opty in overall repsonse in Server 2K3. Runs great, dropped right in the M2N32-SLI board with the BIOS update. This chip really woke up my server. I highly recommend it if you have a AM2 mobo that can support Phenom with a BIOS update. The opty would bog down on occasion under heavy load but this chip just rocks.

Cons: The stock HSF is dog poop. I guess AMD had to cut somewhere. They need to bundle the stock HSF for the 6000 or Optys with this chip -- the 4-heat-piped one. I used the HSF off my opty 1216 and the temps are great now. So be advised... with the stock HSF this chip will run HOT even in a well ventillated case

Other Thoughts: TLB... yeah yeah yeah. This chip has been 100% stable running 24/7 since it was installed. Much Maligned Phenom is but this chip works great. Besides, the TLB bug has hardly been reproduced outside of lab environments and only occurs in certain Virtualization-type situations. However, if you own a 6000 or a 6400BE I would say wait until the clocks go higher or they release the 9600BE, as you won't notice a difference... and unless you do encoding or run it on a server, you probably won't anyway.

/quote

You're one of the ones who watch Fox News aren't you?

This will likely be my only post to this thread, if you guys insist on the personal attacks.

First, never post user reviews as proof of something. These are the same dumb users that plug in a molex and SATA power plug to one harddrive. The same dumb users that complain of overheating CPUs with improperly attached HSF. The same dumb users that allow their computers to join botnets. etc. As Turpit pointed out, some/many of these guys don't have them. Citing user reviews is like citing wiki, it shouldn't be done.

Second, while he might not have cited a good source, there are some out there that show what he's claiming. Take a look at this.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/618/1/

If you are concerned about and want to patch your computer so this doesn't effect you, they then go on in the next page to use the new overdrive utility to benchmark with the patch on or off. Gaming takes one of the biggest hits with an ~11% drop in performance. If what they said about the problem is true however, you can leave the patch off without much to worry about.

So why would anyone want one of these? How about a quad core CPU for <$200?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6819103226

You can run from your proxy but you can't hide. Great work Turpit!

You too SMU Pony. Big thumbs up!

Typical happy Phenom user:

Maybe he is and maybe he isn't, but judging by your contribution and well-thought out screenname I'd say it takes one to know one, eh old chap? If you don't have something meaningful to post, refrain from doing so.

Of course, I suppose a thread as ridiculously concieved as this one was simply destined to become nothing more than a party. Can we get a delete here?

I'm not for intel or AMD, however I am for good prices and a quad core chip for $185 is a pretty damn good price. The Q6600 is $100 more even though it is better. It depends on your budget. If I were to build a quad core system on a budget, I'd go with AMD. If money were no object, I'd grab the intel or wait for the new 45 nm quads.

I all about the bang for buck, right now, a phenom as a drop in replacemnt is good if i can overclock it to at leat 2.5 ghz, but the intel 8200@2.66ghz and 8400 @3ghz sound really good for 163 and 183 dollars so amd had better drop prices soon.

9 Inch aka Thunderman, in which it shoud be Thunderflop is a hit and run artist nd a AMD schill. It's a good thing Jumpin Jack isn't here to see it right now.

R Collins


I'm just running a Q6600 at stock on a Asus P5N32-E SLI with 4 gig of ddr2 800 with 4 80 gig raptors and a 8800gt, Xfi Platinum, all under the control of Windows Vista Ultimate 32 bit.

Look for the reviews that have blue text stating whether they bought it or not.
It will say it above each review.

I miss Jack's posts.

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