Testseek.com have collected 138 expert reviews of the AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3 and the average rating is 84%. Scroll down and see all reviews for AMD Phenom 2 X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3.
April 2009
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The editors liked
Affordable
Reverse Compatible
Uses both DDR2 or DDR3 RAM (WIth AM2 (DDR2) or AM3 (DDR3) boards)
Overclockable
Cool n Quiet 3.0 Works
Fast
Well priced
Stays cool
Great Price/Performance
Nice Overclocking Headroom
Responds Well To Advanced Cooling Methods
Best Performance From AMD Weve Seen To Date
Very Stable When Overclocked Properly
Fun To Overclock Black Editions
Entire Top End Dragon Platform Cheaper Tha...
Reasonably priced
True quad core
Well integrated with AMDs platform technology
Outpaces Intel at this price point for now.
Good performance for the price
Has overclocking headroom
Uses inexpensive motherboards
Supports both DDR2 and DDR3 RAM
Great price
Good performance
DDR3 support
Highest Phenom II clock speed yet
AM3 & DDR3 support
Unlocked multiplier
8MB of total cache
AMD OverDrive 3.0
Excellent price/performance
The editors didn't like
No Real Performance Increase between DDR2 and DDR3 Systems
None this far
Hasnt Caught Up To Intel Core i7
Poor performance on digital photo apps.
In most tests
Displayed lesser performance than the slowest Intel Core i7 chip
Existing AM2+ motherboards may need a BIOS upgrade
Good performance, unlocked multiplier, overclocks easily, works with existing AM2+ motherboards, consumes lower power on idle/load
Expensive
Weve all seen the Phenom II X4 955 in action when we reviewed the Dragon platform, and now its time to overclock it and push it even further. The Phenom X4 940 was the flagship processor just a couple of months back but it lacked AM3 support. There...
Abstract: It has been nearly four months since the first Phenom II was officially made available and since its initial release of the X4 940 'Black Edition' and the X4 920 Socket AM2+ processors, AMD has started offering DDR3 compatible processors via the newer ...
At roughly US$199, the Phenom II X4 955 is a pretty decent buy and a worthy upgrade. It plays games decently and gets your encoding done at a good speed. Its also a pretty decent overclocker as you can see above. In other words, you cant really go wro...
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En estos momentos ya hemos probado gran parte de la parrilla de renovación de AMD por lo que es más simple dar un veredicto acerca del rendimiento que tiene el AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition. De esta forma creemos que AMD tiene una excelente tecnol...
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