AMD Launches 125W Phenom II X4 965 CPU

AMD Launches 125W Phenom II X4 965 CPU

Overclocking

Overclocking:

As mentioned initially (and the whole purpose of this article) is that the new 965 model is a lower power 125W TDP. We should expect that overclocking would be slightly better than than the 140W TDP version. I was able to get a pretty decent OC leaving at stock voltage, however past that I wasn't able to squeeze out much more. I tried up to 1.525v but at the rate the system crashed you could tell it was a downhill slope with the increase in voltage. I messed around a little overclocking the memory controller, I was up around 2.5GHz without any issues.

We run Windows Vista x64 edition... If you are still running only a 32-bit operation system then you could expect to see about a 200 MHz increase over these numbers.

* 3.4 GHz - Stock Speed & Voltage (1.375v)
* 3.8 GHz - Max Overclock @ Stock Voltage
* 3.9 GHz - Max Overclock @ 1.425v

3.8 GHz @ Stock Voltage (1.375v)

Max OC - 3.9 GHz @ 1.425v

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