• Review

AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition: New Hope?

by
3 Comments

Applications - AVG, WinRAR

Previous Next
Summary
  1. AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  2. B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around
  3. B2 Stepping - TLB Bug Is Still Around, Continued
  4. Phenom 9600 Black Edition
  5. Overclocking - AMD's OverDrive Badly Supported
  6. Overclocking - Newer Versions From Other Sources?
  7. Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature
  8. Overclocking - AMD OverDrive Not Yet Mature, Continued
  9. Overlocking By 13.04% - 2.60 GHz
  10. Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz
  11. Overclocking - Hitting The Limit At 2.70 GHz, Continued
  12. Only 12.5% More Performance
  13. Slower Than Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600
  14. Power Consumption - 21 Watts When Idle
  15. Power Consumption - 150 Watts When Overclocked
  16. Test Setup
  17. Software Configuration
  18. 3D Games - UT2004, Prey
  19. 3D Games - Quake 4, Warhammer
  20. 3D Games -Supreme Commander, Serious Sam 2
  21. 3D-Rendering - Cinema 4D, 3D-Studio Max
  22. Applications - AVG, WinRAR
  23. Applications - Photoshop, PDF
  24. Applications - Deep Fritz
  25. Audio Encoding - ITunes, Lame
  26. Synthetic - Sandra CPU
  27. Synthetic - Sandra Memory
  28. Synthetic - Sandra Multimedia
  29. Synthetic - PC-Mark
  30. Synthetic - 3DMark06
  31. Video Encoding - Xvid, Pinnacle Studio
  32. Video Encoding - Premiere, Mainconcept
  33. Video Encoding - HDTV, DivX
  34. Video Encoding - CloneDVD
  35. Conclusion - AMD's Phenom 9600 Can't Beat Intel's Q6600
About the author
The Editors of Tom's Hardware
Read more
This thread is closed for comments
3 comments
Comment from the forums
    Your comment
  • ShadowKai
    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!
  • I think I may have found a new problem with this bug. I have a Phenom X4 9600, and have tried two different motherboards. The problem occurs when running Windows 7. BSOD with a message stating that the operating system did not receive an clock interupt signal from the second processor. At first I thought it was a bios problem, but have since had to replace the motherboard. Tried Windows 7 again after replacing the motherboard and still having the same problem.
Most Popular
  1. The World's Best Hardware Prices
  2. Overclock Your Graphics Card in 5 Minutes
  3. Intel's 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled
The Latest On Tom's Hardware
Edition
Subscribe to our newsletter
Company
Resources
Other Purch sites
  • © 2019 Purch All Rights Reserved.