HP Begins Selling PC With AMD Quad-Core Phenom Chip

malware · Jan 2, 2008, 08:26 AM

Hewlett-Packard (HP) has begun selling systems based on the AMD quad-core Phenom processor at Wal-Mart, according to the retailer's website. HP becomes the first top-tier U.S. computer vendor to offer systems using the Phenom processor. Smaller vendors, such as Falcon Northwest and iBuypower, have been offering systems for a number of weeks. The HP M8330F Pavilion Desktop comes with the Phenom 9500 Quad-Core Processor (2.2GHz), a 640GB (2x 320GB) 7200-rpm Serial ATA hard drive, 3072MB of PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM memory, and Windows Vista Home Premium. The system is priced at $959.99. Other large retailers, such as Sears, are also offering the system. The Phenom 9500 and 9600 processors, generally available now, contain a bug that can cause system instability in certain rare overload situations. The bug can be fixed with a workaround. AMD is also in preparation of a new "B3" revision processors that should fix the TLB bug.

Source: x86watch

ShadowFold · Jan 2, 2008, 08:33 AM

Pop a HD 3850 in that thing and your ready for gaming

Triprift · Jan 2, 2008, 08:46 AM

And replace home premium with ultimate 64bit so you can have 4 gig

btarunr · Jan 2, 2008, 08:56 AM

Aah finally some OEM takers gathering for Phenom.

wiak · Jan 2, 2008, 08:57 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Triprift

And replace home premium with ultimate 64bit so you can have 4 gig

just get the 64-bit vista iso from microsoft, and your on you way to 4GB, you dont need ultimate or buy another version, all vista versions support 64-bit, same for retail and oem

i think it cost like 5 usd for shipping

Quote:

Originally Posted by btarunr

Aah finally some OEM takers gathering for Phenom.

yup AMD needs it!

btarunr · Jan 2, 2008, 09:00 AM

Hey in the link Malware gave doesn't it show as Athlon64 X2 6000+ (under the Specs tab)? Typo from HP

hacker111 · Jan 2, 2008, 11:29 AM

Walmart?

mdm-adph · Jan 2, 2008, 02:28 PM

Link only shows the specs as having a 2000Mhz HT link, though, as far as I can see. Kind of a letdown.

WhiteLotus · Jan 2, 2008, 02:30 PM

what does this compare to the Intel offering? i mean price of a similar Intel system?

and this is good news - come on AMD get your products out there!

freaksavior · Jan 2, 2008, 04:00 PM

just to let you know, its about $950 for the computer.

if i remember right it was $969

Ehstii · Jan 2, 2008, 04:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by freaksavior

just to let you know, its about $950 for the computer.

if i remember right it was $969

that cheap?

Psychoholic · Jan 2, 2008, 05:59 PM

Nice looking Machine for OEM. Wonder what size PSU it has.

hugz · Jan 2, 2008, 06:05 PM

hah, someone has to sell & buy that crap.

hat · Jan 2, 2008, 06:12 PM

MAybe AMD can get some good profits out of this.

WarEagleAU · Jan 2, 2008, 06:42 PM

HP and Compaq use Enermax CPUs and a few others (antec, etc)

hat · Jan 2, 2008, 06:48 PM

Hm, Enermax and Antec... good brands

TheGuruStud · Jan 2, 2008, 10:23 PM

You can trick vista x86 into using 4 gigs of ram. It understands the x64 extensions.

I don't know if there's a perf. hit, though

Jan 2, 2008, 08:26 AM	#1
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Jan 2, 2008, 11:29 AM	#7
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Jan 2, 2008, 06:05 PM	#13
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hat Maximum Overclocker Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ohio Posts: 12,236 (5.16/day) Thanks: 2,054 Thanked 2,039 Times in 1,549 Posts System Specs	MAybe AMD can get some good profits out of this.

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