AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition: New Hope?
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Only 12.5% More Performance
By overclocking the Phenom 9600 Black Edition, we were able to realize a maximum performance gain of 12.5% across our benchmark suite.
Overclocking the Phenom 9600 BE by 13% yields 9.5% more performance. Increasing the core frequency by 17.4% improves processing speed by 12.5%.
This table shows the performance increase of a Phenom 9600 Black Edition when it is overclocked to 2.60 GHz and 2.70 GHz respectively.
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ShadowKai I think on page 14 the author meant:Reply
"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.
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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!Reply
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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.Reply