AMD Phenom vs. Athlon Core Shootout
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Deep Fritz 10 Chess shows a slight performance increase. Remember that this applications scales beautifully with more CPU cores, so it performs much better with Phenom on four cores than on Athlon 64 X2 on two.
Frame rates are 11% faster with a single core Phenom when compared to a single core Athlon 64 X2.
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Editor-in-Chief (2005-2006)
Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.