In the Phenom II 955 Black Edition, AMD has created a great CPU that will satisfy the vast majority of power users, gamers, and enthusiasts. Most importantly, it's priced very competitively and makes for a great alternative to all of Intel's solutions at around the £200 price point. However, the apparent overclockability of these chips due to their unlocked multiplier doesn't actually hold out in normal circumstances. Perhaps if you use water cooling or liquid nitrogen you'll be able to get this chip running at 6.0GHz (like people have with the Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition) but in a conventional air cooled system you're just as likely to get the same amount of overclocking headroom from one of Intel's chips.
+ : + Great Price/Performance
+ Nice Overclocking Headroom
+ Responds Well To Advanced Cooling Methods
+ Best Performance From AMD We've Seen To Date
+ Very Stable When Overclocked Properly
+ Fun To Overclock Black Editions
+ Entire Top End Dragon Platform Cheaper Than A Single Intel 965 Extreme CPU.- :
(Les notes de la presse sont données à titre indicatif et représentent une interprétation du test par Numerama)
Fiche technique du AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
