AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE C3 Review

November 4, 2009 | 09:13

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Lavalys Everest

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Everest is a comprehensive suite of benchmarking tools that can gauge the theoretical performance of every sub-system and component of your PC. We use the Memory and Cache benchmark to see how data flows into and out of the CPU.

Open the application and go to the Tools menu. Then click Cache and Memory Benchmark and click the Start Benchmark button. Everest will test the speed of all levels of CPU cache as well as memory throughput.

Everest Memory Performance Test

  • Intel Core i5-750
  • Intel Core i7-920
  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 C3 Black Edition
    • 12173
    • 9666
    • 13317
    • 11993
    • 9657
    • 14117
    • 8082
    • 6730
    • 10104
    • 8045
    • 6765
    • 10159
    • 8033
    • 6789
    • 10123
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  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s
  • Copy MB/s

Everest Memory Performance Test (OC)

  • Intel Core i7-920
  • Intel Core i5-750
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 C3 Black Edition
    • 17595
    • 14441
    • 20510
    • 16841
    • 14249
    • 18059
    • 10211
    • 8138
    • 12368
    • 10313
    • 8620
    • 12555
    • 10040
    • 9772
    • 12465
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  • Read MB/s
  • Write MB/s
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Everest Memory Latency Test

  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 C3 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
  • Intel Core i5-750
  • Intel Core i7-920
  • 54.8
  • 54.9
  • 55.3
  • 56.1
  • 69.0
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Everest Memory Latency Test (OC)

  • Intel Core i5-750
  • AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
  • AMD Phenom II X4 965 C3 Black Edition
  • Intel Core i7-920
  • 42.9
  • 44.4
  • 45.1
  • 45.5
  • 47.6
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While at stock speeds (1,333MHz CL9), the new 965 Black Edition matches its older brothers, although overclocked the read performance and latency seems to suffer a little, despite us optimising the timings at 1,600MHz. The much greater 2.8GHz memory controller clock naturally yields a much higher write performance though.
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