AMD's New Year Refresh: Athlon II X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, Athlon II X2 255 & Athlon II X3 440
by Anand Lal Shimpi on January 25, 2010 12:00 AM EST- Posted in
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PAR2 Multithreaded Archive Recovery Performance
Par2 is an application used for reconstructing downloaded archives. It can generate parity data from a given archive and later use it to recover the archive
Chuchusoft took the source code of par2cmdline 0.4 and parallelized it using Intel’s Threading Building Blocks 2.1. The result is a version of par2cmdline that can spawn multiple threads to repair par2 archives. For this test we took a 708MB archive, corrupted nearly 60MB of it, and used the multithreaded par2cmdline to recover it. The scores reported are the repair and recover time in seconds.
The Athlon II X3 and X4 do very well here thanks to the test being quite parallelized. The dual core options are competitive though.
Sorenson Squeeze: FLV Creation
We're using Sorenson Squeeze to convert regular videos into Flash videos for use on websites.
The trend continues given the threaded nature of this test. The dual-core AMD chips are more competitive than usual here, they are significantly faster than the Pentium E6300.
WinRAR - Archive Creation
Our WinRAR test simply takes 300MB of files and compresses them into a single RAR archive using the application's default settings. We're not doing anything exotic here, just looking at the impact of CPU performance on creating an archive:
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Jovec - Monday, January 25, 2010 - link
Also, I'm not sure the X2 255 belongs in the Thuban chart.forum123 - Friday, May 7, 2010 - link
Able to unlock Athlon II X3 440 to Deneb core Phenom II x4 B40. No L3 cash though. Interesting enough the voltage automatically went up to 1.472V which on stock cooler raised the temperature up to 46-48C idling. Lowered to 1.275V (not stable at 1.25V), idles at 37-39C, does not go over 50C on load. Wonder how much the power consumption increased from 95W for 3 cores when unlocking the 4th core.Anyways, it's a good marketing strategy for AMD to release unlock-able processors, which can additionally overclock. Hooks you up.
Vaavazodu - Sunday, August 29, 2010 - link
Hey Guys, This is my first comment of question Ever, I want to buy a PC with good stability and Speed , I m gonna use it for bussiness and gaming, which Processor should I choose..i have some options..
PHENOM ii x4 945
Phenom ii x3
phenom ii x2 higest
Or
Athelon ii x4
Plz get me info.. and show me what to buy...