october 6 2010 review by hitechlegion

The performance of this CPU was outstanding all around. Temperatures stayed very low, so there's no need for excessive cooling.

Compared To:

AMD Phenom II X4 965BE, Athlon X2 7850 BE.

Test Setup:

• Graphics Card : nVidia GeForce GTS250 1024MB
• Hard Drive : Western Digital RE3 500GB
• Mainboard : Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-UD4H
• OS : Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit
• Power Supply : Ultra X-4 500W
• RAM : 2x2GB G.Skill DDR2 800MHz

Benchmarks:

3D Mark Vantage, BattleForge, Cinebench 10, Cinebench 11.5, Gaming Benchmarks, Lavalys Everest, PC Mark Vantage, Resident Evil VI, Sisoft Sandra, World Bench, World in Conflict.

Overclocking:

After unlocking two extra cores this CPU was overclockes @ 3905MHz.