Test Setup & CPU-Z Info
Testing was conducted with the following system:
| CPU | AMD Athlon II X4 640 |
| Heatsink | GlacialTech Igloo 5760 |
| Motherboard | Jetway Hummer HA-09 |
| Chipset | AMD 890GX |
| Graphics card | ATI Radeon HD 4830 |
| RAM | 2x2GB Kingston DDR3-1066 |
| HDD 1 | Seagate 7200.10 500GB |
| HDD 2 | Western Digital Caviar Green 5900RPM 500GB |
| Power Supply | Nexus RX-6300 630W |
| Case | Silverstone Fortress FT-02 |
| OS | Windows 7 Ultimate |
| Drivers | Catalyst 10.4 unified drivers |
Note: In order to get the system stable, we were forced to disable C1E power state support in the BIOS settings. This disables AMD’s Cool-n-Quiet cpu throttling, but was needed to avoid frequent lockups and random reboots. Feel free to consult your friendly neighborhood Spid—er, Google about the “AMD C1E bug” for further details.
For those who must have every last gory detail, CPU-Z gives us a thorough breakdown of the CPU’s capabilities:
Anyone have the foggiest idea what this says?