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TEST PLATFORM
Our test platform consists of a Phenom II 940 Black Edition and a Gigabyte
790GX motherboard.
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The Phenom II 940 Black Edition is clocked at 3.0GHz and is factory unlocked.
As this first iteration of Phenom II does not require a socket change,
the CPU looks identical to other AM2 processors.
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The test motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-MA790GP-DS4H, a high-end board utilizing
the AMD 790GX chipset. |
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The board has more or less the same feature-set as an X58 i7 board. It
lacks eSATA but has HD 3300 integrated graphics with 128MB of sideport
memory. As it uses an AMD chipset, only CrossFire is supported —
no SLI. DDR2 memory is used instead of DDR3 — Phenom II won't get
DDR3 support until the AM3 socket debuts later this quarter.
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Our test platform consists of mostly the same hardware used to evalute
the Core i7 920: A GeForce GTX 260 graphics card, Intel solid-state drive,
and an Asus Blu-ray drive. The only changes are the heatsink and power
supply. More on that later.
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