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Test Setup
10:44 AM - December 26, 2007 by
Patrick Schmid
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: phenom, motherboards
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Table of Contents:
Test Setup
The test setup is based on standard components, which we have been using for months, but it also utilizes hardware from our brand-new Reference System configuration. We already used a similar configuration to compare the Athlon 64 X2 and the Phenom working with only a single processing core.
| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| AM2 Processors | AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ (Windsor F3 core, 2.4 GHz, 2x 512 kB L2 Cache)
AMD Phenom 9600 (Barcelona B2 core, 2.3 GHz, 4x 512 kB L2 Cache, 2 MB L3 Cache) |
| Memory | 2x 1 GB Corsair DDR2-800
CM2X1024-8888-C4D, Timings 4-4-4-12 |
| DVD-ROM | Samsung SH-D163A , SATA150 |
| Graphics Card | Gigabyte Radeon HD 3850 GV-RX385512H
GPU: 670 MHz Memory: 512 MB DDR3 (830 MHz, 256 Bit) |
| Sound Card | Integrated |
| Power Supply | Coolermaster RS-850-EMBA, ATX 12V V2.2, 850 Watt |
| System Software & Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Enterprise Version 6.0 (Build 6000) |
| DirectX 10 | DirectX 10 (Vista default) |
| DirectX 9.0c | Version: April 2007 |
| Graphics Card | ATI Radeon Version 7.11 (54440) |
| AMD Chipset Driver | Version 3.0.642 (28/11/2007) |
| Java | Java Runtime Environment 6.0 Update 1 |
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spearhead
06/01/2008
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too many vendors boycott the upgradebility they just dont want to release a simple bios update because they want to force costumers to buy a new motherboard. it would anger me i would have bought a am2 motherboard and the vendor was such a bastard to boycott the upgrade.today those bios updates are rare too find. so far i have only few vendors who upgrade there bios. apperently ASUS support it the best so that is why i will choose ASUS above all those cheap bastards from now on
