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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Review
| Author | Edward Chester |
| Published | 23rd Apr 2009 |
| Manufacturer | AMD |
| Price | £189.56 (Exc VAT) |
| as reviewed | £217.99 (Inc VAT) |
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TrustedReviews NewslettersIt's arguable that for many of you, gaming performance will be of paramount interest when it comes to buying new parts for your PC. However, the simple fact of the matter is, if you have a powerful gaming PC, CPU performance is not going to be your bottleneck. So as long as you have a reasonably nippy dual, triple, or quad core CPU, you'll be fine. It's for this reason we didn't go to town with our game testing and have looked at just two games, Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars.
Both games use scripting to run through a custom time demo, with frame rates recorded along the way. Each setting is run three times and an average taken to ensure a consistent and fair result. We used a 'low' graphical setting to demonstrate the effect a fast CPU can have when graphics card performance isn't a bottleneck and then we used a 'high' setting to show the limited effect a fast CPU has when your graphics card is the bottleneck.
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Ed said on 23rd April 2009
basicasic said on 23rd April 2009
Talk about wanting it on a plate! Overclocking used to be a bit of a black art. Soldering resistors, joining tiny bridges with conductive paint, using the right memory and tinkerin... more
Ed said on 24th April 2009
As I explained, the system was essentially dead after some initial attempts and due to time constraints we weren't able to recover it for another run. Reading around, these wi... more
andy1001 said on 16th May 2009
I belive there is missclick - should be 6mb L3 cache instead of 2mb on page 1.
May i ask about cooling? Did you use components included in box or add your own cpu co... more
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You're right, we only did a 'verdict' on page 3. My bad. ;)