Phenom Recycled: Athlon X2 7000-Series

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AMD Motherboard (Socket AM2+) Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe WiFi Revision: 1.02G Chipset: AMD790FX + SB600 Bios: 1202 (07/03/2008)
AMD Motherboard II (Socket AM2+) MSI DKA790GX Platinum (MS-7550) Revision: 1.2 Chipset: AMD790FX + SB700 Bios: V0.0 (11/25/2008)
Intel Motherboard (Sockel 775) Gigabyte X48T-DQ6 Revision: 1.3 Chipset: Intel X48 + ICH9 Bios: F5 (07/21/2008)
Intel-Motherboard II (Socket 1366) Intel DX58SO Revision: 403 Cipset: Intel X58 + ICH10 Bios1: SOX5810J.86A.2260.2008.0918.1758 Bios2: SOX5810J.86A.2624.2008.1021.1531
DDR2 Memory AMD System A-DATA DDR2-800+ (2x 2GB) Type: AD2800E002GU Setup: DDR2-1066 (CL 5.0-5-5-15-2T)
DDR3 Memory Intel System A-DATA DDR3-1600 (2x 2GB) Type: AD31600X002GU Setup: DDR3-1333 (CL 7.0-7-7-20)
Graphics Card MSI N280GTX-T2D1G-OC GPU: Nvidia GeForce GTX280 (GT200) GPU Clock Speed: 650 MHz Memory: 1024 MB GDDR3 2300 MHz (512 Bit)
Blu-ray ROM Pioneer BDC-202BK SATA/150
Hard Drives Western Digital Caviar SE 320 GB (WD3200AAKS) 7,200 RPM, SATA/300, 16 MB
Power Supply Unit Coolermaster RS-850-EMBA 850 Watt, ATX 12V 2.3
Sound Card Creative X-Fi Xtreme Gamerwith X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity A/D Wandler: 96 kHz/24 Bit
USB Stick Corsair Flash Voyager 4 GB Write: 16 MB/sek Read: 33 MB/sek
Patrick Schmid
Patrick Schmid
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.

120 Comments Comment from the forums
  • davidgbailey
    First Comment!!!

    AMD is competing with Core 2 Duo? Why don't they try to compete with core i7? Oh wait, they can't compete with core i7 being 2 years behind. But AMD FTW against Core 2 Duo 2 years later!!!
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  • curnel_D
    I'd upgrade to the 6400+BE before I'd upgrade to the 7000 series.
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  • tipmen
    Poor AMD
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  • royalcrown
    Wow, only 80 bucks to upgrade a four whole fps over my 5400 x2....lemme rush right out, not !
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  • urban_black_redneck
    Curnel_DI'd upgrade to the 6400+BE before I'd upgrade to the 7000 series.Now the 6000 is just under $80 (same price as the 7750BE) and the 6400 is hard to find.

    I am building my first gaming computer from the ground up, proudly starting with the 7750 Black Edition.
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  • amdgamer666
    would like to have seen some overclockability tests but otherwise great article. good to see amd has released kuma (finally) to become slightly more competetive
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  • Naw-yi
    notice the memory used is 800mzh not 1066mhz, also why would they use different video cards? the drivers used arnt even up to date... test should be run with alike hardware and software(or as close to alike as possible) or its not to be taken seriously.
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  • Naw-yi
    Naw-yinotice the memory used is 800mzh not 1066mhz, test should be run with alike hardware and software(or as close to alike as possible) or its not to be taken seriously.
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  • cangelini
    Naw, I'll ask Patrick to answer the memory questions. However, if you read the Test Setup page, you'll see that only one graphics card was used. Also, given the mainstream nature of these graphics cards versus the very high-end graphics card, there is no way in a million years that the WHQL driver used would have any effect on the outcome of these benchmarks.
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  • cangelini
    Naw, ran the memory question past our German team and updated the piece. Same modules were run at 1066 and CAS 5. Thanks for the catch. Hope that answers all of your questions. If there's anything else, please let me know!
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