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Originally Posted by Techalomaniac
Why have you not considered the Phenom II X4 940 and instead taken the 945?
The only shortcoming of the 940 is that it is AM2+ and not AM3.
The 945 is Expensive, not at all VFM! In fact, acc to the market price provided in the mag, i would rather pay the extra Rs. 500 odd and get the 955BE.
The 940 meanwhile is priced at around 10k and competes with Q9450! Not considering it I feel, was not a good decision.
One more Question : In the compare box, why is there no section for TDP? That would have been nice.
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The X4 940 was marked as an EOL product by AMD. If a vendor tells you not to carry a CPU, you listen to them; so its not a decision that was made by us.
TDP is not as important as people consider it to be; and the term has been overhyped and abused by vendors taking advantage of the non-discerning masses. I hope you do know that it is actually a specification of the maximum thermal threshold of a product and not really indicative of how much heat that particular product produces. So a Core i7 975 with a TDP of 130W doesn't have to run hotter than a Phenom II with a TDP of 95W. As a unit measure of power draw its pretty useless too. It was never intended as a figure for the public, but is a design spec mostly intended for manufacturer's drawing boards. I intentionally removed it, and was waiting for this question.