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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 8th Jan 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £199.99 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £229.99 (Inc VAT) |
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For this test we run all the auto-adjustments available in Photoshop on a large collection of images and time how long it takes to complete. It's an old test that isn't multi-threaded but it is incredibly reliable at demonstrating differences in single-threaded performance.
Things are back on track here with Phenom II improving significantly over Phenom and closing the gap between it and the competition from Intel.
WinRAR File Compression
Though zipping and unzipping files is a fairly quick and easy task, the frequency with which a heavy computer user has to do it means saving five seconds each time you unzip something is a real boon. We therefore feel it makes for an interesting test of system performance.
This test is split into two parts. The first times how long it takes to compress a large video file and the second records how long it takes to compress the folder of photos used in the above Photoshop test.
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supersizeme said on 11th January 2009
wiak said on 2nd February 2009
edward you might want to trow in a Q9400/Q9300 as a direct comparison based on price
as all the intels cpus in this review is all above $300, the i7 920 platform cost twice ... more
kois30 said on 12th March 2009
i know this is off topic but "empire total war" is still slow on this cpu even when overclocked to 3.2ghz. the load time is killing it.
Menahunie said on 25th April 2009
Ya know from reading this thread; my conclusion is this.
This is no different than the arguement over Chevy vs. Ford and who is better.
All I have seen is nothing but... more
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I agree it would be advantageous to see this processor compared with the Q6600. The decision is either plop a 6600 into the motherboard, Jump to core i7 or switch to AMD. The Q66... more