We are testing the AMD Phenom II X4 960T CPU against the AMD Athlon II X3 455 CPU. The AMD Phenom II X4 960T is clocked at 3000Mhz and the AMD Athlon II X3 455 is clocked at 3300Mhz. A big advantage for the AMD Phenom II X4 960T is the 6MB Level 3 Cache while the AMD Athlon II X3 455 has none. Another big advantage for the AMD Phenom II X4 960T is that it has a Turbo which increases the Clock Speed to 3.4Ghz for a speed boost during demanding Software. We will be using Benchmarks for testing the AMD Phenom II X4 960T and AMD Athlon II X3 455 which are:- Cinebench 10, Cinebench 11.5, Geekbench, Novabench and Nuclearus. Games Benchmarks are Crysis, Hawk 2, Lost Planet 2 and Resident Evil 5
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