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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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Performance Score 9 for Performance
Value Score 8 for Value
Overall Score 8 for Overall
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition
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While many people will associate 3D performance with a graphics card, for CAD applications a lot of the grunt work is still performed on CPUs so this is something we've put to the test. We use two industry standard tests, called POV-Ray and Cinebench. Both programs can be freely downloaded and the benchmark begins with just a single click so they're a really easy comparison tool if you fancy seeing how your system shapes up.

Cinebench has both a single-threaded and multi-threaded test while POV-Ray is just multi-threaded. Slightly disappointingly, Cinebench only returns a score, rather than a time to completion, so the numbers in isolation don't really mean anything. However, when compared they adequately show up any difference in performance.

Cinebench




POVRay


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comment Ed said on 23rd April 2009

You're right, we only did a 'verdict' on page 3. My bad. ;)

comment 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

comment 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

comment 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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