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Are you looking to build a budget PC, but have a limited budget to work with? When we started to look into low cost Do-It-Yourself (DIY) systems we found that you could easily build an AMD Llano system for less than $300. We build a system for under $300 with an AMD A8-3870K APU, Gigabyte A55M-DS2 motherboard, OCZ Vertex Plus R2 60GB Solid-State Drive and more. Read on to see how it turned out and performed.
With the release of the A8-3870K AMD have a processor which is aimed very much at those who love to tweak and overclock but can't quite afford the higher cost of AMD or Intel's other components. Today we take a look at the potential of the A8-3870K on its own and in dual graphics mode to see what it offers for Skyrim, StarCraft 2 and Star Wars: The Old Republic players.
So what we'll be looking at today is the performance of the new FX-8150 against the much loved i7 2600k. Because both brands have so much focus on the overclocking side of things, that was today our focus as well. If you're going to opt for a high end CPU and video card, you want to make sure that you don't create any kind of bottleneck which is of course another reason why we're overclocking here today.
AMD legt heute abermals nach und erhöht den Takt seines Quad-Core-Prozessors Phenom II X4 auf 3,40 GHz. Um diese Taktrate erreichen zu können, musste AMD jedoch die TDP des Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition auf 140 Watt anheben. Dieser Schritt ist uns vom unseeligen Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition noch bestens in Erinnerung, doch diesmal verfügt AMD über ein deutlich besseres Ausgangsmaterial.
Drei Kerne sind nach wie vor eine oft belächelte Angelegenheit im CPU-Geschäft. Vollkommen zu Unrecht, wir unser aktueller Test erneut zeigt! Wir werfen einen Blick auf das taktschnellste Drei-Kern-Modell AMD Phenom II X3 450 und ziehen darüber hinaus den eigentlich dem OEM-Handel vorbehaltenen Phenom II X4 740 Black Edition zu Rate.
We hadn't planned to use the old test method anymore, but reality made us reconsider our decision. We got ourselves an engineering sample of a new Core i7 processor, and we decided to test it with our time-proven method to be able to compare it with other CPUs. And as soon as we adopt the new test procedure, our first step will be to retest this processor and other models from this and other series. Now what's so interesting about the Core i7 950?
With a maximum of eight cores, 256-bit AVX instructions, quad-channel memory and integrated PCI-Express 3.0 I/O connections, Intel has significantly improved its dual-socket server platform. Whether workloads benefit more from pure processing power, fast memory communication or faster I/O, the new Sandy Bridge architecture has clear advantages in all areas compared to Intel's previous server platform.
This is reflected by the test results. For example, with HPC applications we saw performance gains of a couple dozen percent. The database benchmark showed an improvement of 36 percent compared to the previous generation. The performance-per-watt has also increased according to the results, both in tests focusing on pure CPU power and the database benchmarks that take advantage more of memory bandwidth.
When you take into consideration that our test servers have many more DIMMs, all of which use more power, then the differences are certainly impressive. The improved performance-per-watt and the option to add much more RAM thanks to LRDIMMS will be an incentive for upgrading older servers to the new Xeon E5-based platforms.
NZXT strikes again with another cost-effective mid-tower case, Lexa S. Is it a good pick? Let's see.
After the hectic week of testing this brand new 8 core CPU from Advanced Micro Design, it's time to go a bit deeper. In this review we are gonna retest the Bulldozer CPU versus it's main rivals. Being AMD's own Thuban 1090T, Intels 2600K and the almighty Gulftown 990X CPU. Mainly because our test suite had to be slightly updated to give the new Zambezi architecture a shot to maybe show it's true potential. But most important to show some people the real deal. I've myself read through a few articles on AMD's latest flagship. To be honest some reviews made me wonder if they were really done or just a copy paste of the marketing slides. It was also kind of funny to see some renown websites include completely GPU bottlenecked game benchmarks. Kinda hard to tell the importance of the CPU part don't you think ? Even if they call it real world scenarios, it still made my eyebrows frown as they hardly used any game tests in older reviews. Why now include them ? So without boring you too much with my frustrations, let's get it on...
In den vergangenen Wochen hatten wir uns einige Mainboards für Intels Sockel LGA1156 angesehen und diese Plattform dabei gründlich durchleuchtet. Heute nehmen wir die dabei gewonnenen Ergebnisse zum Anlass, unseren Test des Core i7 870 (Lynnfield) komplett zu aktualisieren.
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