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AM3 motherboards cannot use AM2+ CPUs due to the pin differences between the two interfaces and the fact that the AM2+ CPU does not support DDR3 memory as the AM3 CPU does. We decided to use the fastest available Phenom II X4 AM3 CPU, the 810 in our test platform. Performance was lower than the 940 we use in the AM2+ platform, but that was to be expected with a 400MHz slower CPU.
Test System
- AMD Phenom II X4 810 CPU running at 2.6GHz
- 2GB Kingston DDR316000 2GHz memory running at 1333MHz
- 2 74GB WD Raptor SATA HDDs in RAID 0 mode
- LG 16X DVD-RW
- ATI HD 4870 1GB running Catalyst 9.4 drivers
- Cooler Master 1000W TruePower PSU
- Windows Vista 32-bit with SP1 installed
Tests
- Sysmark 2007 with patch 5 installed
- PCMark Vantage
- PCMark05
- 3DMark Vantage
- 3DMark06
- CPUBench 2003
- Crystalmark 2004
- wPrime
- Sisoft Sandra 2009 CPU Benchmark
- Hexus PiFast
- X264 Benchmark
- SpecViewPerf 10
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