Assassinator Wrote:

ZiNgA BuRgA Wrote::O, Assassinator's OC'd Phenom 9550 runs about as well as my Q6600 at stock:

My bench was on a 20% overclock. I can probably go all the way to a 30-35% overclock, but I really can't be bothered. I rather not stress the CPU to the max possible overclock - somehow, that just doesn't seem healthy to me (I mean high voltages and high temps...). Some people on forums say they can only just push the Phenom 9550 to around my clock, even when using suicide voltages like 1.55 or something (compared to my 1.25). I guess I'm lucky (or they're unlucky, in getting a bad CPU), or my motherboard (specifically, chipset) is superior, or they don't know how to overclock.

Our memory scores are also quite similar. I guess my RAM got pulled up from 800 to 960 (compared to your stock 1066) from the 20% reference clock increase.

My RAM is running at 800MHz (3x 266MHz) - can't get it to run at 1066MHz (get a heap of errors in Memtest86+).  Kinda surprised your RAM is slightly lower than mine actually.  AMD do do especially well with a higher clocked RAM due to its integrated memory controller.