Summary
- Testing the AMD Phenom X3 8750, 8650 and 8450
- Phenom X3 With Three Cores
- Overview Of All Phenom X4 And X3 Models
- Thermal Design Power
- Thermal Design Power: Phenom X3 only XX Watts
- AMD Overdrive Tool
- Prices: Phenom X3 8450 at $146
- Complete X3 System For Just $494
- Performance: Compared to 2.40 GHz
- Performance: Phenom X3 8750 Only 4% Slower Than The 6400+
- Performance: Phenom X3 8450 15% Slower
- Performance: Phenom X3 8750 Versus Core 2 Duo E6550
- Test Set-up And Components Used
- Sofware Configuration
- Benchmarks And Settings
- 3D Games: UT2004, Prey
- 3D Games: Quake 4, Warhammer
- 3D Games: Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
- 3D Rendering: Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
- Applications: AVG, WinRAR
- Applications: Photoshop, PDF
- Applications: Deep Fritz
- Audio Encoding: iTunes, Lame
- Synthetics: Sandra CPU
- Synthetics: Sandra Memory
- Synthetics: Sandra Multimedia
- Synthetics: PC-Mark
- Synthetics: 3DMark06
- Video Encoding: Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
- Video Encoding: Premiere, Mainconcept
- Video Encoding: HDTV, DivX
- Video Encoding: CloneDVD
- Results: Phenom - Fantastic Price, But High Power Consumption In Idle Mode

