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AMD Phenom II x4 840 3.2GHz CPU/Processor

PCMark Vantage

“PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.

A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.

From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.”

PCMark, tests just as the name implies, benchmarks your entire PC. Its a great overall benchmarks which tests every aspect of your computer. It then gives a very detailed printout of what it received in the various test suites and a break down for within those sections. The suites used to benchmark the entire computer are: Memories Suite, TV and Movies Suite, Gaming Suite, Music Suite, Communications Suite, Productivity Suite, and HDD Test Suite.

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Results

The 840 scored pretty good on PCMark Vantage. PCMark doesn’t show CPU specific scores, but shows the PC as a whole. You can easily see this number rise with faster RAM, more RAM, and a faster hard drive. Nonetheless, the 840 scored some great numbers in productivity and communications, as well as just about everything else the CPU aids in. The overall score is brought down by my RAM and hard drive.

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Performance Test

PerformanceTest is a great complete benchmark like PCMark Vantage.

“Fast, easy to use, PC speed testing and benchmarking. PassMark PerformanceTest ™ allows you to objectively benchmark a PC using a variety of different speed tests and compare the results to other computers.” PerformanceTest also gives us a CPU Mark and PassMark rating. We ran PerformanceTest’s CPU benchmark which runs “Mathematical operations, compression, encryption, SSE, 3DNow! instructions and more.”

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My rig scored a total score of 1308.3. Really good, but what really matters is the CPU score, so lets check that out.

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The 840 scored an impressive 4110.4 PassMark score. Not a bad score. The Phenom II x6 1075T I reviewed on a similar system received a 5948.9. A lot better, but more than double the price.

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