Testseek.co.uk have collected 71 expert reviews of the AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 and the average rating is 82%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3.
August 2009
Experts 82% 71 Reviews
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Abstract: A powerful new flagship processor that finally puts AMD into the lead at mainstream price points. Intels Core i7 is still comfortably the performance king, but for an upgradable and stable performance platform Phenom II is now the way to go; at least...
Published: 2009-08-25, Author: Edward Chester , review by: trustedreviews.com
Abstract: It may come as something of a surprise, being that its Phenom CPUs have been AMDs high-end chips ever since they launched at the start of 2008, but its only with the launch of the Phenom II X4 965 BE that AMD has made its fastest ever CPU. Cloc...
Abstract: There is nothing wrong with an incremental update—especially an update that adds performance without affecting pricing. Such is the case with AMD’s new Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, which arrived at our performance lab running at 3.4 GHz—200 MHz fast...
Abstract: Today is AMD day! We take a look at the new 965 BE which replaces the fantastic 955BE. We also look at a plethora of AMD based motherboards from Asus, Gigabyte, ASRock and ECS as well as the brilliant Sapphire 2GB 4890 graphics card which is aimed at e...
Abstract: The arrival of less expensive socket LGA1156 Intel Core i5 and i7 chips changed that a bit. They are cheaper, but slightly slower than the top level Intel 975XE CPU. The system cost is also about on a par with the AMD top CPU bins. Yet, trying to put ...
AMD Phenom II X4 965 is CPU that does not operate at its limits as it was the case few years ago with 3200MHz X2 6400+ model. AMD Phenom II X4 965 has very nice overclock margin and potentials which resulted in very good price/performance ratio compare...
One thing I noticed with the Phenom II X4 965, it does get hot fast if you overclock or run it at 100% constantly compared to other lower wattage CPUs from AMD. Just make sure you have a CPU Cooler that is rated to handle a 140Watt CPU or higher such...
Abstract: Looking back, quad-core processors have had quite the run already. Intel's first quad-core CPU, the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 was released almost three years ago, with the much more popular Q6600 following up months later at a rather steep $850. As you may...
