Test Setup

AMD Phenom II X6 "Thuban" (Socket AM3)

* AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition

* MSI 890FXA-GD70
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 2x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Comparison Setups

AMD Phenom II X4 "Deneb" (Socket AM3)

* AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition

* Gigabyte MA790FXT-UD5P
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 2x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Intel Core i7 "Bloomfield" (Socket LGA1366)

* Intel Core i7-920

* ASUS P6X58D Premium
* NVIDIA GTX 260-216
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 3x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Intel Core i7 "Gulftown" (Socket LGA1366)

* Intel Core i7-980X

* ASUS P6X58D Premium
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 3x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Intel Core i7 "Lynnfield" (Socket LGA1156)

* Intel Core i7-870

* Intel DP55KG
* NVIDIA GTX 260-216
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 2x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Intel Core i5 "Lynnfield" (Socket LGA1156)

* Intel Core i5-750

* Intel DP55KG
* NVIDIA GTX 260-216
* Seagate 750GB 7200.11
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 2x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1333 9-9-9-24-1T

Intel Core 2 Quad "Yorkfield" (Socket LGA775)

* Intel Core 2 Quad Q9650

* ASUS P5E3
 * NVIDIA GTX 260-216
* Western Digital Caviar Black with 32MB cache SATA2 drive
* Mushkin XP-800AP Power Supply
* 2x2GB Mushkin DDR3-1600 9-9-9-24-1T

Benchmarks

* SiSoftware Sandra 2009

* Handbrake
* POV-Ray
* WinRAR
* Cinebench R10
* Futuremark PCMark Vantage
* World in Conflict
* Lost Planet
* Bioshock
* Left 4 Dead
* Crysis Warhead
* Far Cry 2

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Phenom II X6 1055T Overclocking Experiments

* ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 mainboard (Socket AM3, AMD 890GX + SB850, DDR3 SDRAM);
* 2 x 2 GB, DDR3-1600 SDRAM, 9-9-9-24 (Kingston KHX1600C8D3K2/4GX);
* ATI Radeon HD 5870 graphics card;
* Western Digital VelociRaptor (WD3000HLFS) HDD;
* Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme CPU cooler with Enermax Everest fan.

or
-Asus M4A785TD-V EVO----
ASRock 890FX Deluxe3 (Socket AM3) 890FX/SB850
Asus M4A79T Deluxe (Socket AM3) 790FX/SB750,
MSI 880gma-e45 880g chipset
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