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Test Components & Test Experience
7:43 AM - December 19, 2007 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon, 64, x2
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Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: amd, phenom, athlon, 64, x2
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Table of Contents:
Test Components & Test Experience
AMD Phenom 9900 at 2.6 GHz
We used a Phenom 9000 CPU and set it to 2.6 GHz clock speed, which resembles that of model 9900. Since the BIOS of our test motherboard doesn't allow us to switch off individual cores, we forced Windows to run as a single processor system, using only a single core. We did the same thing with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+ after setting it to 2.6 GHz as well. This meant that the Phenom should have the full advantage of its features in a direct apples to apples comparison against the Athlon 64 X2.
CPU-Z 1.42 didn't work on our test system, so we had to step back to version 1.41.
Four cores, 4x 512 kB L2 cache, 2048 kB L3 cache and 600 million transistors.
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it is clock speed the phenom lacks. if amd can just bump its speed up to around 3ghz-3.6ghz then it would make good competition towards faster intels. i can conclude from this benchmark that if you buy an phenom 9850 and clock it around 3ghz you have much more horse power then you would have with an athlon x2 6000+ however some benchmarks might tell you something else it makes sence if you use 1066mhz memory or just 800mhz mem