Undervolting Your Phenom II And Core 2 Processors
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Patrick Schmid and Achim Roos 
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Test Setup
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| System Hardware | |
|---|---|
| Hardware | Details | 
| CPU AMD | AMD Phenom II X4 955 (45 nm, 3.2 GHz, 4x 512 KB L2 and 6 MB L3 Cache, TDP 125 W, Rev. C2) | 
| CPU Intel | Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (45 nm, 3.0 GHz, 12 MB L2 Cache, TDP 130 W, Rev. D0) | 
| Motherboard (socket 775) | MSI P45D3 Neo-F (Rev. 1.0) Chipset: Intel P45, ICH10R BIOS: 4.2 (02/18/2009) | 
| Motherboard (Socket AM3) | MSI 790FX-GD70 (Rev. 1.0) Chipset: AMD 790FX, SB750 BIOS: 1.3 (04/01/2009) | 
| RAM DDR3 (Tripple) | 2 x 2 GB DDR3-1600 (Corsair TR3X6G-1600C8D 8-8-8-24) | 
| Graphics | Zotac Geforce GTX 260² GPU: Geforce GTX 260 (576 MHz) Graphics RAM: 896 MB DDR3 (1998 MHz) Stream Processors: 216 Shader Clock: 1242 MHz | 
| Hard Drive | Western Digital VelociRaptor, 300 GB (WD3000HLFS) 10,000 RPM, SATA/300, 16 MB Cache | 
| Blu-Ray Drive | LG GGW-H20L, SATA/150 | 
| Power Supply | PC Power & Cooling, Silencer 750EPS12V 750W | 
| AMD Software and Drivers | |
| Operating System | Windows Vista Enterprise Version 6.0 x64 Service Pack 2 (Build 6000) | 
| Drivers and Settings | |
| AMD Chipset Drivers | Catalyst 9.4 | 
| Nvidia GeForce Driver | GeForce 185.85 | 
| Intel Chipset Drivers | Chipset Installation Utility Ver. 9.1.0.1012 | 
| Intel Storage Drivers | Matrix Storage Drivers Ver. 8.8.0.1009 | 
| Benchmarks and Settings | |
| PCMark Vantage | Version: 1.00 PCMark Benchmark | 
| Prime 95 | Version: 25.7 In-place large FFTs | 
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