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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Processor Review

Manufacturer: AMD
Product: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition
Date: Thu, Jan 08, 2009 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Chris Morrell -
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WinRar and Sandra 2009

SiSoft's Sandra has become a mainstay in checking system performance while WinRar is a commonly used archiving tool. With Sandra 2009, I will be testing the memory bandwidth and latency while with WinRar I'll test the system's theoretical compression speed to provide another real-world test.

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

The Sandra ALU/FPU tests favor Intel's SMP core, and the latency test favors Intel's fast DDR3 integrated memory controller. Fast memory access used to be AMD's pride and joy but it looks like times have changed until AMD moves to DDR3 with AM3. WinRAR once again repeats what we already know. The single-threaded results, however, are slightly disturbing compared to previous performance differences.

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Review Index
Page 1 - Phenom, Round Two
Page 2 - Same Architecture, New Process
Page 3 - Compatible Boards
Page 4 - The Test System
Page 5 - Cinebench and POV-Ray
Page 6 - wPrime and SuperPi
Page 7 - 3DMark Vantage and 2006
Page 8 - WinRar and Sandra 2009
Page 9 - Call of Duty 4 and Farcry 2
Page 10 - Crysis and Crysis Warhead
Page 11 - Assassin's Creed and Fallout 3
Page 12 - Company of Heroes and Supreme Commander
Page 13 - Preliminary Overclocking
Page 14 - Power Consumption and Voltage Scaling
Page 15 - Wrap Up and Conclusion