Energy efficiency

Does anyone know if amd are bringing the current wattages of their processors down? I heard that they were going to bring the phenom ii 955 down to 95 watts from 125 watts in Q1. Would that also be a black edition processor as well?

yeah the Athlon II 240e are lower

the new quad athlons are also featuring lower TDPs

what i mean buy worse of is clock for clock. I know the 965 is very slightly better than the qx9650 lol. because it is 400 mhz more for starters, still very little difference.

they will still be black edition or not really?

it is more stable to have them running at 125 watts then? For overclocking?

so ultimately the 125watt cpu can overclock more? or not necesarrily, could it be that amd are just rubbish, i know they aren't because i specifically bought a phenom ii 720 because i like amd's value. What i'm saying is intel have 95 watt quad cores that have higher over clocking potential than amd's cpus. The core 2 quad 9550 for example. You know what i mean.

you said that with the one with more power to start with it can overclock more on stock voltage. And then you say on same voltage both of them can overclock as much. But wouldn't the 125 watt have a head start to the 95 watt one?
but then that's ok really because i don't overclock more than 500 mhz. Although on this phenom ii 720 i have got it to 3.5ghz so far stable. I suppose i am kind of happy with this motherboard and i still can increase the voltages. This is a micro atx motherboard.

and i know that other games will benefit a quad core, very few though, unless you are seriously multitasking.

for me it's jsut for gaming. Outright gaming performance. So if there are times of intense moments in games, apart from the gpu. Do quads have higher minimum fps than x3 do? Or should it be around the same?

i thought the quads had a bit more cache. The phenom ii 720 has 7.5mb cache. I thought the phenom ii 955 has 8mb cache. but then also i thought, since it is only 0.5 of a mb that should make very very little difference. They aught to make a 3.2ghz 3 core. But then what would be the point, it would almost cost as much as a quad core at 3ghz do you rekon. I think amd has done well with 3 core. Just for gaming it's a brilliant processor and makes sense, it's a booster from a dual core processor, when not multitasking and at the same clock speed the processor easilly rivals and equals the 4 cores. I mean at some games, that are dual optimised the 3 core will do well.

i mainly bought it because my motherboard accepts 95 watts only. I wanted to have a micro atx gaming rig, initially i bought a computer for my mum because she wanted to have a smaller computer case, i bought a matx motherboard. So far, got myself a good case so i can fit in good height cpu cooler and full sized graphics card. But then i suppose that's fine since anyway i'm only using it for games. Should still have a killer game experience