Optimizing Your Phenom II Overclock For Efficiency

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Performance Results: Audio/Video

Audio

Apple's iTunes and the Lame MP3 encoder both benefit from clock speed increases.

Video

Likewise, DivX, Xvid, and Mainconcept video encoding scales almost linearly. More clock speed directly translates in better performance.

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Summary
  1. Chasing Down The Perfect Clock Speed For AMD's Phenom II X4
  2. AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition (BE)
  3. The Platform: Jetway HA07 Ultra With AMD's 790GX Chipset
  4. Settings: 2.8, 3.0, And 3.2 GHz
  5. Settings: 3.4, 3.6, And 3.8 GHz
  6. Speed And Voltage Table, Test Setup And Components
  7. Performance Results: Games
  8. Performance Results: PCMark And 3DMark Vantage
  9. Performance Results: Applications
  10. Performance Results: Audio/Video
  11. Idle/Peak Power Consumption Analysis
  12. Average And Total Power During PCMark
  13. Efficiency Results
  14. Conclusion
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Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos
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