Review on AMD Phenom II X4 940 💻 Black Edition 3.0GHz AM2+ Processor - Retail by Hayden Jay ᠌

Name: AMD Phenom II X4 940 💻 Black Edition 3.0GHz AM2+ Processor - Retail
Item: AMD Phenom II X4 940 💻 Black Edition 3.0GHz AM2+ Processor - Retail
Rating: 5

October 21, 2022

I was surprised by the quality for the price.

Great inexpensive processor for gaming.
Fans of overclocking have something to do at their leisure.
I put the Noctua NH-C12P SE14 cooler on this percentage and rejoiced!
At idle, the temperature is 38-39 degrees, with serious loads 54-61 degrees at 1200 rpm. I didn’t do overclocking because it’s not necessary, but for the sake of interest, it’s not interesting.
If you advise AMD fans, then you don’t need to advise, they will like it without advice, and if you are not a fan of AMD platforms and you don’t care who the processor manufacturer is, then you can safely look for competitors among Intel.
And in general, six-core processors are already whistling on the market, so the choice is only yours)

Pros

High performance, relatively inexpensive, 4 cores, free multiplier, supports AM3 and AM2+, DDR2 and DDR3 memory, etc. Overall, a pretty good processor.

Cons

Stone: Very hot, but this is not such a disadvantage in normal cooling. Cooler: The boxed cooler should be immediately thrown out or donated to someone with a weaker CPU, for example Athlon II x4 620 2.60 GHz. A very noisy cooler, it is simply impossible to withstand its roar, it seems that it is about to burst into pieces. It does not cope with the task assigned to it, in idle time it heats up from 48 to 57 degrees, while the cooler itself rotates from 5200 to 6800 rpm! 0_o And what happens then under load? I did not dare to load the percentage with a boxed cooler and immediately purchased another CO