Legit Processor Reviews

AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: HDZ965FBGIBOX
Date: Wed, Aug 12, 2009 - 11:00 PM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Power Consumption

Since power consumption is a big deal these days, we ran some simple power consumption tests on our test beds. The systems ran with the power supplies, case fan, video card and hard drive model. To measure idle usage, we ran the system at idle for one hour on the desktop with no screen saver and took the measurement. For load measurements, POV-Ray 3.7 was run on all cores to make sure each and every processor was at 100% load. Both processors were tested on a system using identical hardware.

Power Consumption Results

Results: The power supply that we have dedicated to just our CPU testing systems recently failed and is no longer in production. Since we had to the change power supply all the power consumption results of the processors will have to be re-tested. For the time being we ran power consumption tests on some of the AMD Phenom II processors the AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE does against other processors you might be considering to purchase. The TDP on the AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE is 140W, which is higher than the 125W TDP rated previous Phenom II X4 955 BE processor. AMD informed us that the 965’s idle power draw should be nearly identical to the 955 and while at load, overall system power draw on a high-performance rig should not change much (maybe ~10W delta at full load). Our test results showed a 23W difference between the two processors at a full load though.  Every processor consumes slightly different amounts of power, so ours might be a little leaky as it was a great overclocker.  Speaking of overclocking, let's take a look at that to show you just how far we got this processor on air cooling. 

Next Page - Overclocking


Review Index
Page 1 - AMD's New Speed Demon - Phenom II 965
Page 2 - Phenom II X4 965 Specifications
Page 3 - The Test System
Page 4 - Sandra 2009 Memory Bandwidth
Page 5 - Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2
Page 6 - Microsoft Excel 2007
Page 7 - Cinebench R10
Page 8 - POV-Ray 3.7 Beta 25
Page 9 - POV-Ray Real-Time Raytracing
Page 10 - Futuremark 3DMark06
Page 11 - World in Conflict
Page 12 - Crysis Warhead
Page 13 - Power Consumption
Page 14 - Overclocking
Page 15 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions