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3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer

12:41 PM - February 5, 2008 by The Editors of Tom's Hardware
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, 9600, black, edition
Topics: AMD/ATI, Build Your Own, Business, Overclocking

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Table of Contents:
19 – 3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
  1. 1 – AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  2. 2 – B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around
  3. 3 – B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around, Continued
  4. 4 – Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  5. 5 – Overclocking - AMD's OverDrive Badly Supported
  6. 6 – Overclocking - Newer Versions From Other Sources?
  7. 7 – Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature
  8. 8 – Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature, Continued
  9. 9 – Overlocking By 13.04% - 2.60 GHz
  10. 10 – Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz
  11. 11 – Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz, Continued
  12. 12 – Only 12.5% More Performance
  13. 13 – Slower Than Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600
  14. 14 – Power Consumption - 21 Watts When Idle
  15. 15 – Power Consumption - 150 Watts When Overclocked
  16. 16 – Test Setup
  17. 17 – Software Configuration
  18. 18 – 3D Games - UT2004, Prey
  19. 19 – 3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
  20. 20 – 3D Games -Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
  21. 21 – 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
  22. 22 – Applications - AVG, WinRAR
  23. 23 – Applications - Photoshop, PDF
  24. 24 – Applications - Deep Fritz
  25. 25 – Audio Encoding - ITunes, Lame
  26. 26 – Synthetic - Sandra CPU
  27. 27 – Synthetic - Sandra Memory
  28. 28 – Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
  29. 29 – Synthetic - PC-Mark
  30. 30 – Synthetic - 3DMark06
  31. 31 – Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
  32. 32 – Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
  33. 33 – Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
  34. 34 – Video Encoding - CloneDVD
  35. 35 – Conclusion - AMD's Phenom 9600 Can't Beat Intel's Q6600

3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer


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ShadowKai 07/06/2008 7:34 AM
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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.

Anonymous 10/02/2008 8:34 AM
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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!

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