AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor

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An impressive CPU! Even with the most taxing gaming it has performed beautifully and stayed cool with the supplied fan & heatsink. Overclocking is easy, however I like to run my units at normal clocking. I am sure glad I went with the 125W Black over the 90W others. Windows 7 runs cleanly with my two monitors and 3D gaming set-up. Always been a big fan of AMD and this is another positive for them.

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An impressive CPU! Even with the most taxing gaming it has performed beautifully and stayed cool with the supplied fan & heatsink. Overclocking is easy, however I like to run my units at normal clocking. I am sure glad I went with the 125W Black over the 90W others. Windows 7 runs cleanly with my two monitors and 3D gaming set-up. Always been a big fan of AMD and this is another positive for them.

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I got this CPU for over a year now and that just a great CPU. I overclocked it to 3.6 ghz an it runs w 36 celsius under load pis a Zalman CNPS9500 wich is just great! I could push it more but I feel it was just what I need and this very stable so why go further!

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great chip when paired with a nice cooler, lots of oc room for a very modest price, can't go wrong

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After a year and a bit with my X2 7850, I decided to move on up to the Quad. It's pretty sweet. The largest gains I've noticed is in the area of video editing / conversion of formats. This along with my new motherboard have made me very happy. I have yet to OC this baby. I havent yet cause I dont game and the difference in the extra Ghz's will not be too useful to me at the moment vs the increase in power consumption. If I OC I will post results.

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Great price and performance. This CPU runs very cool with my hyper 212+ and oc's well.

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Got this for a friend at 140 bucks, can't beat it.

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It's a good product that does its job well and at a good price too. Great for a budget build. Haven't tried to OC yet but there's no need to yet for me. I would recommend this to anyone on a budget.

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Great processor. Picked it up for $150 using price match. Overclocked to 4.07 ghz on 1.4v with a cooler master hyper 212. The best bang for your buck. Highly recommended to anyone on a tight budget and wants some serious performance. Only downside is that

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Pretty impressed with this 4 core processorWonderful price, wonderful performance, and wonderful overclocking potentialAlthough the heatsink is a bit loud when running big programs, it controls the temperature quite wellHighly Recommended

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Very reliable little CPU. I like it for the price it's a bargain. My only complain is with the stock HSF and fans in my case, it used to get a little hot and spin it's fan very fast wich was annoying. Bought additional fans for my case and now all is well.

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I have purchased 2 of these CPUs for friends, and both have been very happy. They were for budget gaming rigs, as the goal was to assemble a capable machine without the cost of an Intel CPU.

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I purchased this on ebay from outlet_ncix for $127.50, a super deal. The overclocking was just for fun. Very happy with this CPU just as it is.

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Great upgrade for a steal at $149. Runs at 3.4 with still low heat values. I'm happy I can hold off on the whole ram/motherboard/ cpu upgrade for another year or 2...Will be trying a 5850 up from a 5770 xfx card next week, which should help also.Can't beat the price/performance mark.

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A great budget CPU for gaming, but won't be able to compete with the top more expensive intel CPU's. Still there is no point in going over the i5 760 barrier for gaming (as benchmarks shown the performance is minimal once you go past the i5 760).

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Price performance point is decent for this high end amd cpu when price matched. Needed a good gaming CPU for a budget build, and this fit the bill. It was definitely worth the extra cost to get the additional cores since a similarly clocked dual or tri core CPU wasn't much less.If I needed midrange or on a slightly restricted budget, I would pick this up again.

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i haven't really tried to overclock this yet but just started recently. slowly getting thereover all this was a great improvement over my amd athlon single core cpu.runs all games smooth.

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I just used this in a customers gaming build, what can i say its a great Quad core CPU for the price, stable, fast. I know we could have OC'd her but the client just wanted a nice Stock cpu, and this does the job nicely. i recommend this CPU if intel pricing is out of reachIts part of this build:PSU: OCZ ModXStream Pro 600WMotherboard: ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 AM3 DDR3 AMD 890GXCPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Quad Core RAM: Mushkin Enhanced Silverline Stiletto 4GB 2X2GB PC3-10666 DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24Video Card: Sapphire Radeon HD 6870Primary OS Drive: OCZ Vertex 2 Extended Sandforce 60GB Secondary Storage Drive: Western Digital WD10EARS Caviar Green 1TB SATA 64MBDVD: ASUS DRW-24B1ST 24X SATA DVD WriterCase: Coolermaster Haf 912 Black Mid Tower ATX Case

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I am a new comer to overclocking and when looking to build myself a PC, nothing beat this in term of pricing for what I am going to get. I overclocked this to 3.6Ghz on stock cooling it was stable for the entire duration of 10 hrs or so of running memtest86. The highest temperature it hit was 45C. With even more potential if I get a better cpu cooling unit, I would probably be using this for a couple of years to come. I use my PC for mostly 3D renderings (Solid Works, AutoCad 3D)

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For the price (at the time of purchase), this processor is hard to beat, especially considering overclocking potential. Bumped up the speed to 3.6 (enough for my current needs) with room to spare.

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Very happy with this CPU. Great for gaming and applications. Highly Recommended for anyone wanting the best bang for your buck :>

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I am not an Intel or AMD fanboy and I like to choose what processor suits my needs better.I'm really happy that AMD is part of the competition since Intel would sell the Celeron for 500$ otherwise!This processor is fast, very good for overclocking since the multiplier is unlocked. The price is just amazing for a processor like this one!

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J'utilise le Phenom II X4 955 BE dans mon deuxième ordinateur. Ce processeur est encore aujourd'hui une très bonne valeur dans le marché. Avec ses quatre coeurs il peut accomplir toutes les tâches sans aucun problème de performance. Si on fait des recherches, on peut trouver une source de pricematch à 150$ ce qui en fait probablement le meilleur rapport performance/prix à part bien sur les Phenom II X2 550 ou 555 qui ont deux coeurs de cachés qui sont souvent déblocables. Pour ce qui est du ventilateur de ce 955 BE à première vue celui-ci semble assez performent avec ses heatpipes mais on est déçu lors de sa mise en fonction puisqu'il est très bruyant et il ne refroidit pas bien le CPU. Donc un refroidisseur très mal conçu. S.V.P. AMD changez-nous cette horreur!!!Pour corriger le problème j'ai été obligé d'acheté un refroidisseur plus performent et moins bruyant. Mon choix s'est arrêté sur le Kingwin XT-964 à 4 heatpipes et un ventilateur beaucoup plus silencieux de 92 mm. Je ne voulais pas briser la banque pour un HSF qui n'était pas prévu à mon budget pour ce système et j'ai payé ce HSF à 31$ après P.M. Au moins mon HSF Kingwin me donnera de la marge pour l'overclocking.Je donne 4/5 étoiles à cause bien évidement du mauvais refroidisseur.

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I'm very happy with this purchase, was able to get it with an instant savings and a nice combo deal applied to my ram. I'm not sure if luck had anything to do with it but this little guy is happily stable (and surprisingly cool) even with a little overclocking. I have run it stable at 3.8GHZ with low/mid 40's (Celsius) temps but was a little leery to push further on stock heatsink.

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Bought this for a build that was on a budget. At the time of purchasing this, it was on sale for $25 off isntantly, and came with a free coupon for Modern Warfare 2. This worked out to be about $170 after discounts and MW2.I was originally looking at the Phenom II 925 cpu which was $155 dollars (and did not have MW2 included). However with the $25 dollar discount and FREE copy of MW2, this actually in a sense worked out cheaper, as the owner that the build was for would have paid $60 Canadian from a local retailer for the game anyways.As an intel i7 fan, I have to say the price of these Phenom II and performance you get from these, makes for great budget friendly gaming builds.