How we tested
Here is a list of the applications we've used for our testing - most of them are available for public consumption and all of the benchmarks were run at least three times and the results were averaged.
- Sisoft Sandra XII SP1
- Lost Planet: Extreme Condition
- World in Conflict
- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars
- PCMark Vantage x64
- WinRAR 3.71
- Paint.NET 3.05
- Windows Media Encoder x64
- DivX 6.7
- AutoMKV 0.90
- VirtualDub 1.6.15
- LAME MT 3.97
- Blender
- Cinebench 10 x64
Test Setup
Intel Core 2 Specific Components:
- 2GB DDR3-1333 7-7-7-20-1T (1,066MHz and 1,333MHz FSB CPUs) / 2GB DDR3-1600 7-7-7-20-1T (1,600MHz FSB CPUs)
- Asus P5E3 Deluxe WiFi-AP @n
AMD Phenom Specific Components:
- 2GB DDR2-1066 5-5-5-15-2T
- Asus M3A32-MVP Deluxe
AMD Athlon 64 X2 Specific Components:
- 2GB DDR2-800 4-4-4-12-2T
- Asus M2N32-SLI Deluxe
Common Components
- Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB
- Seagate 7200.10 160GB 7200RPM SATA 3Gbps
- PC Power and Cooling Silencer 750W PSU
- Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
- DirectX 10
- ATI Catalyst 7.12
- Nvidia Forceware 163.69
- Intel inf 8.3.0
- nForce 15.08
CPUs Tested
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 - 4x 3.20GHz, 2x6MB L2 cache, 1,600MHz FSB, 45m, Yorkfield
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 - 4x3.00GHz, 2x6MB L2 cache, 1,333MHz FSB, 45nm, Yorkfield
- Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 - 4x3.00GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 1,333MHz FSB, 65nm, Kentsfield
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 - 4x2.67GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 1,066MHz FSB, 65nm, Kentsfield
- Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - 4x2.40GHz, 2x4MB L2 cache, 1,066MHz FSB, 65nm, Kentsfield
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 - 2x3.00GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1,333MHz FSB, 65nm, Conroe
- Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 - 2x2.67GHz, 4MB L2 cache, 1,333MHz FSB, 65nm, Conroe
- AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition - 4x2.3GHz, 2MB L3 cache, 4x512KB L2 cache, 2.0GHz HTT, 1.8GHz Northbridge, 65nm Agena
- AMD Phenom 9700 Engineering Sample - 4x2.4GHz, 2MB L3 cache, 4x512KB L2 cache, 2.0GHz HTT, 2.0GHz Northbridge, 65nm Agena
- AMD Phenom 9900 Engineering Sample - 4x2.6GHz, 2MB L3 cache, 4x512KB L2 cache, 2.0GHz HTT, 2.0GHz Northbridge, 65nm Agena
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6400+ - 2x3.20GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 1.0GHz HTT, 90nm, Windsor
- AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+ - 2x3.00GHz, 2x1MB L2 cache, 1.0GHz HTT, 90nm, Windsor
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