XiZeL

yeap, unleas you are concirned with power consumption. stick with the 955

rchads89

Thats ... that then my mind is at rest

sLowEnd

Your 955 is fine
As far as overclocking goes, both top out around 3.8ghz on air

At stock, the difference is negligible. Only a serious benchmarker would care.

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DarthElvis

You say your not an over clocker ? Then this is easy. Go into Bios, set cpu multiplier to 17 and BAM, instant 965 for the price of a 955 (I'm assuming its a black edition. I've never heard of a 955 non-black edition) . Should be no reason to mess with voltages or other settings. If your 955 won't do 3.4 on stock voltage then you have a bunk chip.
Thats how I started overclocking, buy the cheaper chip and clock it to match the top of the line. But be careful, once you start its like crack - it's always " just 50 more Mhz". You will never be satisfied for long.

MrTOOSHORT

my 955 does 3.4ghz with 1.2875 volts, and thats with 4 sticks of 2gb 1066 ram overclocked to 1131mhz stressing out the memory controller.

bringonblink

hmm, this is actually a tough question, because if you DO overclock the 955 and decide that overclocking IS for you, the 965 will hit 4.0 easier (and we all want 4.0...)

however saying that, i am having GREAT fun clocking my 955. up to 3915 now, and a few weeks ago i swore i could not get it above 3700. so many factors affecting an OC like bios, ram etc etc, so yeah its kinda fun :S

rchads89

I think i am set to keep the 955. I have been telling myself they is no point going up 200mhz or it will never stop!!! I will be forever chasing cpu's around every 3 months when a new one comes out! I think this 955 will last me maybe 2 years now. I am sure by then computer hardware would of moved on plenty for a upgrade

rchads89

I have done the multiplier thing and i tell you what i am now on 3.4ghz same as 965 its not different not in games or nothing :s even the fps clock is no different, It was so easy to jut do that multiplier thing i am unsure if i have done it right lol! But right now my temps are not so good because i am on stock cooler they was not great before but now its closer to exceeding the 60oc mark... So i will wait till i get a good cpu cooler then try to run it on 3.4ghz with good temps....

With just doing that multiplier thing without touching volts or whatever what is the most i will get out of the cpu?

rchads89

hmmm this is weird i got the 955 to 3.4 ran the windows 7 performance chart and it went from 7.3 to 7.4... i needed to change it back to stock as my temps was getting close to the 60oc mark... So i ran the windows 7 performance chart again and it has not taken it back down to 7.3? Its kept it at 7.4! Is it stuck now or something on that multiplier lol ops

jimibgood

I have both CPU's. 955 stable at 3.97Ghz having hard time with 965. Stay 955 wait till next introduction.

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