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AMD Athlon II X3 425 2.70 GHz |
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Test Systems
| Test System | |
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| Motherboard: | AMD: Asus M4A79T Deluxe Intel: Asus P5QC ASRock P45X3 Deluxe for Core 2 Duo E8200 |
| Cooler: | Stock HSF |
| Memory: | 2 x 2048 MB G.Skill Perfect Storm PC-16000 DDR3 @ 1333 MHz 7-7-7 @ 1066 MHz 7-7-7 for E6x00 / E7x00 @ 800 MHz 5-5-5 for Celeron/Pentium E5x00 |
| Graphic card | Sapphire HD4890 BattleStation Edition |
| Harddisk: | Samsung HD161HJ 160 GB |
| Power Supply: | Enermax Liberty 620 W |
| Software: | Windows Vista 32-bit SP2 |
| Drivers: | Catalyst 9.9 |
Below you can see the entire list of programs used to test our processors. Most of the tests make good use of multithreading, but just like real-life situations, there are some tests that prefer higher clock frequencies over number of cores or size of L2/L3 cache buffer.
Benchmark Suite
- Everest Ultimate 5.02 - Read/Write/Copy/Latency
- PC Mark Vantage
- 3D Mark Vantage v1.0.1 Performance preset
- wPrime 32M v2.0
- Handbrake 0.9.3 - DVD rip to .mkv
- Xilisoft Video Converter Ultimate v5.1.20 - Quicktime 1080p encode to MPEG-4
- DivX Converter 7.0 - AVI encode with Home Theater preset
- BonkEncoder v1.0.13 FLAC encode with LAME MP3 320 kbs
- I'm Too Audio Encoder v2.1.77 - WMA encode with LAME MP3 320 kbs
- Photoshop CS4
- Cinebench R10
- Blender 2.49
- POV Ray 3.7b
- 7zip v4.65 32 MB mutithreding
- WinRAR 3.9 Benchmark
- WinRAR 3.9 compression - 688 MB file
- Tom Clancy's HAWX v1.1 - high details
- Resident Evil 5 benchmark - medium details
- Section 8 v1.0 - high details
- GTR Evolution v1.0 - high details, Level 1 AA
- Far Cry 2 v1.3 - DirectX 10, High Details
- Prime95 for maximum heat and consumption
- CPU-Z 1.52
- AMD Overdrive 3.02
