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Four cores on a single die. Potentially efficient multicore scaling.
Rich feature set and potentially good tweaking capability.
"True" quad-core design handles data efficiently
Cheaper than competing Intel quad-core chips.
Socket AM2+ design enables upgrade path for Athlon X2 users
Based on what we saw from our Phenom 9600 Black Edition, I wouldnt expect to see astounding overclocks out of these chips—at least not all of them. Of course, overclocking headroom is never a sure thing, and you might have more success than we did...
Abstract: We had a chance to play with Phenoms 9600 unlocked Black Edition and it failed to impress us, at least when it comes to overclocking. Back in November, yours truly managed to overclock engineering sample 9900 from 2.4GHz to 2.8 GHZ stable and 2.915GH...
"True" quad-core design handles data efficiently; cheaper than competing Intel quad-core chips.
Not fast enough to justify the price savings compared with Intels chips; next-gen Intel quad core due out soon could further the performance gap.
AMDs new Phenom quad-core CPU has little to recommend it over competing chips from Intel. The Phenom is marginally less-expensive, but not enough to make up for its subpar performance. Unless AMD drops prices more aggressively, it looks like Intel wil...
Abstract: December 3, 2007 Launched in September 2003, the Athlon 64 was a true success. AMD had an architecture that was extremely efficient compared to its rival, Intel, whether it was in terms of brute performances or performance / power consumption ratios, ...
We wish to thank NCIX for lending us the Phenom 9600 and motherboard we used in this review. Testing the Phenom 9600 has been interesting. The BIOS and CPU-Z agreed on the speed of the processor, but AMDs Overdrive utility showed the "actual" speed a...
I have no doubts that many readers of this review fill find it disappointing that AMDs Phenom processors were not competitive with Intels high-end quad-core processors. Its hard to hide my own disappointment as I personally really wanted AMD to do...
The Phenom quite obviously isnt a bad CPU design, given the way it performs on a per-clock basis and how its performance scales from one to four threads. In many cases, its enhanced execution cores crank out some solid gains in instructions per clock ...
