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techPowerUp! News :: First AMD Benchmarks With DDR3 Memory Posted
techPowerUp! News :: First AMD Benchmarks With DDR3 Memory Posted
Better late than never, AMD is embracing the DDR3 memory standard. Its newest desktop CPU socket, the AM3, connects the processor to dual-channel DDR3 memory. Initial specifications about AMD's processors on the new socket suggest that DDR3 1333MHz (PC3-10600) will be held as the memory standard ...
Running 12GB of DDR3 Triple Channel Memory on Intel Core i7 Platforms
Running 12GB of DDR3 Triple Channel Memory on Intel Core i7 Platforms
legitreviews.com — Enthusiasts have been talking about running 12GB of memory on an Intel Core i7 platform since the... day the platform came out. With many enthusiasts getting into photo editing using CS4 or other memory intensive applications we take a look at ... (more) Running 12GB of DDR3 Triple Channel Memory on Intel Core ...
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking Performance
AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking Performance
techspot.com — Just two weeks ago AMD launched their new Phenom II X4 processors. As we learned in our... review, the flagship model also known as the Phenom II X4 940 performs on par with its Core 2 Quad competition, which comes as great news for AMD who was severely ... (more) AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking Performance
[Phoronix] CSX 3GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory Review
[Phoronix] CSX 3GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory Review
phoronix.com — Unless you are located in Germany or some other parts of Europe, chances are you have never... heard of Compustocx. Compustocx, or CSX for short, is a German manufacturer of system memory modules for computers and is one of the largest memory upgrade ... (more) [Phoronix] CSX 3GB DDR3-1600MHz Memory Review
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Phenom II DDR3 Benchmarks
AMDZone Frontpage — Techpowerup translates some Phenom II DDR3 benchmarks from a Far East Tom's Hardware site. Ahh, NDA breaking is fun. At the center of the test-bench was the AMD Phenom II X4 910, the company's first flagship quad-core AM3 processor. The X4 910 features a default clock speed of 2.60 GHz. The same chip was tested in two settings: default clock-speeds, and overclocked to 3.12 GHz (240 x 13.0 @ default vCore). The screenshots below show the test results for WPrime. The overclocked chip scored a crunch-time of 46.613 s (1M). The overclock did not affect SuperPi at all, with ...

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