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the Overdrive Championship. -
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multi-purpose keys plus a USB hub. The G5 Laser Mouse allows adjustable
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- AMD CPU Efficiency Compared
- Phenom vs. Athlon Core Scaling Compared
- Update: New Notebook CPU Charts
- Intel Power Consumption Then and Now
- AMD Phenom vs. Athlon Core Shootout
- Can Water push Yorkfield to 5 GHz?
- AMD: Survival and the Future
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770: UPDATE
- Phenom 9700, AMD's 1st Quad-Core CPU
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770: Paper Tiger?
- Phenom Exposed! Shipping with flaky 3rd cores.
- AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition - A New Hope?
- Anyone has an idea if AMD CPUs will have another price-cut in CA?
- What is your CPU History
- Which CPU should I get?
- Stock Phenom 9600 AM2 Heatsink Fitting on LGA 775
- CPU-Z showing CPU:6...what does it mean?
- Phenon 9600BE overclock
- OC question
- Asus M3A big problem! please help!
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, 9600, black, edition
Topics: AMD/ATI, Build Your Own, Business, Overclocking
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Test Setup
Operating System: Windows Vista Enterprise
We have recently switched to a different version of Windows for our benchmarks: all benchmarks at THG are now run on Windows Vista Enterprise. While this version is not available in stores, its performance results are identical to those of Windows Vista Business and Windows Vista Ultimate. However, we were forced to make this switch, since this is the only version that offers an Open License. This license allows us to activate Windows Vista over the Internet repeatedly, without having to make calls to Microsoft's activation hotline each time.
Windows Vista Enterprise
Hardware Configuration
We have updated our testbed system with new components, such as the graphics card, sound card and hard drive, in order to offer our readers results based on a platform that is both current and practical.
Hardware Setup
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| AMD Platform AM2+
(AMD 790FX) |
Gigabyte GA-790FX-DQ6 (Rev.1.0)
AMD 790FX, BIOS: F3 |
| AMD Platform AM2
(Nvidia Nforce 5) |
Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe, Rev.1.03G
NVIDIA nForce5, BIOS: 1001 (03/13/2007) |
| Intel Platform S775
(Intel P35) |
Gigabyte P35C-DS3R, Rev. 1.0
Intel P35, BIOS: F2o (05/11/2007) |
| Intel Platform S775
(Intel X38) |
Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, Rev. 1.0
Intel X38, BIOS: F4 (09/19/2007) |
| Memory | 2x 1 GB A-Data DDR2-1066+ Vitesta Extreme Edition |
| DVD-ROM | Samsung SH-D163A , SATA150 |
| Graphics Card | Foxconn Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
GPU: 575 MHz Shader: 1350 MHz Memory: 786 MB DDR4 (900 MHz, 384 Bit) |
| Sound Card | Creative Labs Sound Blaster X-Fi XtremeGamer |
| Power Supply | Zalman, ATX 2.01, 510 Watt |
Graphics Card: Foxconn Nvidia Geforce 8800 GTX
RAM: A-Data Vitesta 1066
Sound Card: Creative x-Fi Gamer
Hard Drive: Western Digital Caviar SE 3200 AAJS
All Phenom benchmarks were conducted on a Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DQ6 motherboard.
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I think on page 14 the author meant:
"When Cool'n'Quiet is deactivated, idle power consumption rises to 51 watts. The jump in power consumption at 2.70 GHz is a direct result of the core voltage increase from 1.250 V to 1.400 V."
And the bars for Phenom 9600 BE and Phenom 9600 BE (CnC) should be switched around.
I think it's also important to mention the fact that Vista SP1 includes it's OWN TLB fix which overrides the bios setting of many boards. I used an app that works in conjunction with Crystal CPUID to change the MSR directly to deactivate this secondary TLB fix. It caused a dramatic improvement in performance; the quick and simple WinRAR bench went from 232 to ~1300 after the fix. Just think it's worth mentioning!