Legit Processor Reviews

AMD Athlon II X4 620 and Athlon II X4 630 Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Athlon II X4 630 and 620 CPUs
Date: Wed, Sep 16, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Nathan Kirsch -
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Photodex ProShow Gold 3.2

ProShow Gold allows the user to combine photos, videos and music to create spectacular slide shows. The software provides the capability to share memories with friends and family on DVD, PC and the Web. ProShow Gold brings still photos to life by adding motion effects like pan, zoom, and rotate. The user can also add captions to a photo or video and choose from over 280 transition effects.

Photodex Proshow Gold 3.2 Benchmark Settings

The workload we are using takes 29 high resolution jpeg photos and converts them to an mpeg2, widescreen DVD quality, 3min 9sec slideshow video file. The input photos are in 3872x2592 resolution and total about 170MB in size.

Photodex Proshow Gold 3.2 Benchmarking

ProShow Gold 3.2 lets you share your slide shows in virtually any format and on any device. You can upload your shows directly to YouTube or choose from over 20 devices to directly output to including the iPod, Blackberry, ZuneTM and more. Not bad for software that runs under $70 and is optimized for eight-cores! Our benchmark testing wasn't at 100% load the entire time, but averaged around 95% during the testing period.

Photodex Proshow Gold 3.2 Benchmark Results

Benchmark Results: Photodex Proshow Gold 3.2 software showed that the AMD Athlon II X4 processors easily hold their own and perform very well for being priced at $99 and $129!

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Review Index
Page 1 - AMD Launches Propus For Under $100
Page 2 - The Test System
Page 3 - Overclocking the Athlon II X4 630
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 - Final Thoughts and Conclusions