AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz Review 59

AMD Athlon II X4 620 2.6 GHz Review

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Test Systems

Test System
Motherboard:AMD: Asus M4A79T Deluxe
Intel: ASRock P45X3 Deluxe
Cooler:Scythe Mugen 2
Scythe Slip Stream 120 mm - 1200 RPM
Memory:2 x 2048 MB G.Skill Perfect Storm PC-16000 DDR3
@ 1333 MHz 7-7-7
Graphic cardXFX Radeon HD4870 X2
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 - .mov 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
  • CoreTemp 0.99.5
  • AMD Overdrive 3.02
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