Review: AMD Phenom 9900, and the Spider Platform

On page 2 you have a table showing TDPs for the Phenom chips.. where did you get these from? I thought AMD had hushed these up and were only talking about ‘ACP’ (Average CPU Power) these days?

That's what AMD claims in its internal literature, but we understand that one man's TDP isn't the same as another.

Looking for confirmation on this now.

I confess, I am an AMD fan, but I must explain that you missed many things in this review:

1/ Power consumption
- Spider uses less power because the OC'd 8800GT is a hog versus the 3870 and the X38 chipset uses 2-3X the power of the 790FX.
2/ Heat
- The 8800GT pours hot air right into the chassis while th 3870 sends the hot air out of the chassis. The X38 MUST be hotter than the 790FX. Why do you think NV asked its customers to retool their chassis so it could fit the heater GT? What does that do to system reliability?
3/ 3D Performance
- Why didn't you test multi-card configurations? The beauty about Spider is that you can throw two, three, even four GPU cards in there. You can't do three or four cards with the 8800GT. You can only do it with Ultra and GTX.

I have to conclude that the reason you didn't test the Spider strengths is because you are biased.

truthseeker
I have to conclude that the reason you didn't test the Spider strengths is because you are biased.

or maybe not enough time? hexus and bias?
hardly.

truthseeker
I have to conclude that the reason you didn't test the Spider strengths is because you are biased.

Did you read the review?