09:40 - Wednesday 23 April 2008 by Bert Töpelt
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon
Categories: Hardware
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon
Categories: Hardware
Table of content:
Sofware Configuration
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| System Software & Drivers | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Windows Vista Enterprise Version 6.0 (Build 6000) |
| DirectX 10 | DirectX 10 (Vista default) |
| DirectX 9 | Version: April 2007 |
| Sound Card | Vista Driver 2.13.0012 (15.03.2007) |
| Graphics Card | Nvidia ForceWare Version 158.18 (32 Bit) WHQL |
| Intel 5400 Driver | Intel 631xESB/6321ESB/3100 Version: 8.3.0.1011 Intel 5400 Version: 8.5.0.1007 Intel 631xESB/6321ESB/3100 - SATA Version: 8.2.0.1011 Intel 631xESB/6321ESB/3100 - USB Version: 7.4.0.1005 |
| X38 chip set driver | Version 8.1.1.1010 (21/11/2006) |
| Intel Storage | Matrix-Storage Manager 7.0.0.1020 |
| 790FX chip set driver | AMD/ATI System Drivers 8.40 2007/11/09 |
| Java | Java Runtime Environment 6.0 Update 1 |
The Test Systems
AMD test system
Intel test system
The Phenom test system with the MSI K9A2 Platinum Board
- Previous page Test Set-up And Components Used
- Next page Benchmarks And Settings
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The CPU Articles and reviews
- Intel Fires Up New Atom Processors
- AMD's Athlon Stepping Improvements
- AMD Phenom - A Second Try with the B3 Stepping
- [CeBIT 2008] – Interview with AMD
- A First Look at AMD's Triple Core Phenom
- Overclocking Intel's Wolfdale E8000
- Wolfdale Shrinks Transistors, Grows Core 2
- Intel Skulltrail II - Overclocking and Power Consumption
- Intel Skulltrail I - Feeling the Power of 8 Cores
- Intel Skulltrail III - Eight against Four Performance Comparison
Is that like Spider, but in a pen?
And Page 12 is certainly borked - you guys were looking at the results wrong!
And you should have emphasized the X3s encoding-power-for-cheap more. Yeah, it's good for office and media/HD, but you can happily stick a G2 4000+ into a 780G board for much the same effect at a much lower cost, owing to the chipset's unholy knack for HD-crunching