Easy to hit 4ghz on a 955BE?

[Obsoleet]

I'm trying to make a decision to move from my 3ghz Q9450 to a 955BE or not, and was wondering how easy a 4ghz OC would be on a 955. I'm sure there's a lot of old AMD guys out there (like I traditionally always was) who know this through and through. I've seen in reviews that the 965 does 4ghz with only slight voltage tweaking. Thanks in advance

 

[Markfw]

Stay with your 9450. my 550BE wouldn't even unlock, and even if it did, I can only get it to 3.8, and my 9450 beat my I7 in PPD for F@H @ 3.4 ! And its at 3.7 with HT on !

Edit: I know its only one app, but really, a PHII is slower clock/clock than a C2Q

 

[richierich1212]

Yeah stick with your current chip. The C3 revision cpus are easier to get to 4GHz, though.

 

[dac7nco]

Mark, your 9450 beats an i7 a F@H? My dual-5680s tore the ass out of my retired dual 5450s by around 170% and that was around the same price point, just a year later.

Daimon

 

[LoneNinja]

I really would not make the switch, Phenom II tops out in the 3.8-4.0Ghz range usually, with a few lucky people getting higher. Your odds of 4.0Ghz are fairly good, but with Phenom II being slower clock for clock than Core2, you won't be seeing a big jump in performance. Just not worth the switch in motherboard/cpu unless you need to have better performance for something.

 

[Makaveli]

Stay with your 9450. my 550BE wouldn't even unlock, and even if it did, I can only get it to 3.8, and my 9450 beat my I7 in PPD for F@H @ 3.4 ! And its at 3.7 with HT on !

Edit: I know its only one app, but really, a PHII is slower clock/clock than a C2Q

Something is wrong with Folding on your i7 rig.

I score 14k PPD with SMP and 8 cores.

i7 @ 3.6Ghz HT on

 

[Makaveli]

I'm trying to make a decision to move from my 3ghz Q9450 to a 955BE or not, and was wondering how easy a 4ghz OC would be on a 955. I'm sure there's a lot of old AMD guys out there (like I traditionally always was) who know this through and through. I've seen in reviews that the 965 does 4ghz with only slight voltage tweaking. Thanks in advance

I would keep what you have to be honest.

 

[BD231]

If you must, you'd be better off waiting for the 960T from AMD at least; a more sure fire way to get 4ghz due to the new design process of the six core part (minus 2 cores, which might possibly be unlockable).

Pretty good advice in this thread though I'd hold off.