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    Phenom 9500 or Athlon 64 X2 6400

    hi,
    i am looking for new processor for my Asus P5Q-E (P45) Motherboard and i have only two choices Athlon x2 64 6400 Black Edition or Phenom 9500? So basically, has anyone here bought a Phenom, and if so what has it been like? Or, does anyone have some good advice about what'd be better for me to get?

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    Re: Phenom 9500 or Athlon 64 X2 6400

    Right now the AMD quad's are not meeting the mark. They aren't OC'ing overly well and most applications aren't even utilizing the 4 cores, therefore it is losing out to high end dual cores. If you are set on quad, go with the intel Q6600. If you want the best performance out of those two go with the 6400+. I almost bought that myself, but just went with the Q6600 instead beacuse of overclocking abillity. I've also heard the 5000+ will be almost at 6400+ numbers after OC'ing. I would only do that if you are trying to save a few bucks though. Good luck.

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    Re: Phenom 9500 or Athlon 64 X2 6400

    what do you use your pc for?

    in dual core tasks the 6400+ is faster. its 1.2ghz faster each core. but obviously in quad based tasks the 9500 is going to be better.

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    Re: Phenom 9500 or Athlon 64 X2 6400

    I have a 6000+ and could only manage a stable overclock of 3215mhz , which was not very noticeable from the stock core of 3000mhz. A 7% overclock was not worth the extra vcore and heat , shorten lifespan of the CPU so i put the CPU back to 3.0ghz.

    I doubt overclocking the 6400+ to 3400mhz you will notice any significant difference between 3200mhz and 3400mhz.

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