The reason ACC doesn't work in the Phenom II X4 is ACC is supposedly included on the cpu, no need for the 750 south bridge.

Great article, thanks.

I become less and less convinced of the value of SYSmark 2007 with every passing day, particularly as an indication of general performance. It seems to favour high performance with fairly large (~4MB) working sets, to the exclusion of all else. This sharply defined requirement does not reflect a common desktop use case, and even the games do not show such extreme behaviour despite their being one of the principal consumer application types that can show benefits from extra performance of this sort. This can probably be explained by the games being real applications that exhibit a high locality of access within smaller working subsets, as indeed most real applications do.


I understand that this is more characteristic of ASUS's implementation than Intel's. Although I don't consider it an especially serious problem, it would perhaps have been better to point this out or otherwise to have used a motherboard from a different vendor for the power consumption comparisons.

At the end of the conclusion of your report, you stated " it almost catches up with Core 2 Quad Q6600 here " What motherboards were you using that you were to get 3.72 GHZ. I would be interested in knowing which motherboards you recommend inasmuch as my Intel DP35DP is so so.

Thanks

AMD is going down, and is going down fast. I hope they wont drag ATI along...

Why is this article titled "New Overclocking Star"? I mean you took this thing to....ummm..3.7Ghz? Not exactly impressive. Shouldn't it be called "New Overclocking Star?" because obviously it's nothing special.

They should have ran the games at 800x600 and low quality. It looks as if the graphics card is the bottleneck, when the reviewer should take steps to ensure that the CPU bottlenecks in an article testing CPUs.

So much for being a star. I actually though for a minute that AMD had a chance when I came saw this article. 3.7, really? why don't you try an extreme form of cooling on the side to see where it's limits really are. If it can't go past 4 on water it is a waste of time trying to get any performance out of it. Also, why didn't you overclock the I7? I got mine to 3.7 in about 10 minutes after installing it. by 30 minutes it was at 4.4 (on water) at 65c, 75-80c load.right now mine is set to 3.75 running at 40c, 50c load. try using a better stess test that isn't made for an intel cpu in the first place, or the amd will naturally be way behind because of low cashe mem.