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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Review
[Abstract]
This article is also contributed by Vincent Chang.When the Going Gets Tough, AMD Ups the AnteIt has been nearly four months since the first Phenom II was officially made available and since its...
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Test Setup
In the course of our reviews on processors, we have accumulated a number of test system configurations for both the AMD and Intel platform due to the intrinsic differences between them. Hence, be prepared for a lengthy listing of the various setups used.
Taking into consideration that the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition has an expected retail price of US$245, we'll be closely focusing upon competitive processors from Intel of the Core i7-920, Core 2 Quad 9550 and Core 2 Quad Q9300 which have an estimated retail price of US$284, US$266 and US$213 respectively. Note that for the Core i7 processors, we left their default HyperThreading and Turbo options enabled since this is a feature of the processor and the auto speed bump is guaranteed by Intel.
With that said, the following testbed configurations will be used throughout our comprehensive benchmarking segment:-
AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE Testbed Configuration
- Gigabyte GA-MA790FXT-UD5P (AMD 790FX + SB750)
- 2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1333 (7-7-7-20)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive (one single NTFS partition)
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (ForceWare 169.21)
- Zotac GeForce GTX 260 (For World in Conflict and Crysis only, ForceWare 178.24)
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE and 920 Testbed Configuration
- MSI DKA 790GX Platinum (AMD 790GX chipset)
- 2 x 1GB Aeneon DDR2-1066 (CAS 5-5-5-15)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive (one single NTFS partition)
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (ForceWare 169.21)
- Zotac GeForce GTX 260 (For World in Conflict and Crysis only, ForceWare 178.24)
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
Intel Core i7 Testbed Configuration
- Processors:- Intel Core i7-940 and 920
- Intel DX58SO Motherboard (Intel X58 Express chipset)
- 3 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1066 (CAS 7-7-7-20)
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GT 512MB (ForceWare 169.21)
- Zotac GeForce GTX 260 (For World in Conflict and Crysis only, ForceWare 178.24)
- Seagate 7200.10 200GB SATA hard drive (one single NTFS partition)
- Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
- Intel INF 9.1.0.1007 and Matrix Storage Manager 8.6.0.1007
Intel Core 2 Quad/Duo Testbed Configuration
- Processors:- Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650, Q9550, Q9300 and E8500
- ASUS P5E3 Deluxe (Intel X38 Express chipset)
- 2 x 1GB Kingston HyperX DDR3-1333 memory modules (CAS 7. 7-7-20)
- Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 200GB SATA hard disk drive (one single NTFS partition)
- ASUS GeForce 8800 GT 512MB - with NVIDIA ForceWare 169.21
- Zotac GeForce GTX 260 (For World in Conflict and Crysis only, ForceWare 178.24)
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional with Service Pack 2
- Intel INF 8.3.1.1009 and Matrix Storage Manager 7.8.0.1012
Benchmarks
The following benchmarks were used in this review:-
- BAPCo SYSmark 2007 Preview (ver 1.04)
- SPEC CPU2000 v1.3
- Futuremark PCMark 2005 Pro
- Lightwave 3D 7.5
- 3ds Max8 (SP2)
- Cinebench 10
- XMpeg 5.0.3 (DivX 6.8 encoding)
- Futuremark 3DMark06 v1.1
- AquaMark3
- World in Conflict v1.05
- Crysis v1.1
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