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AMD Phenom 9850 X4 Quad Core Processor with B3 Stepping
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3DMark 06:
3DMark®06 is the worldwide standard in advanced 3D game performance benchmarking. A fundamental tool for every company in the PC industry as well as PC users and gamers, 3DMark06 uses advanced real-time 3D game workloads to measure PC performance using a suite of DirectX 3D graphical tests, CPU tests, and feature tests. 3DMark06 tests include all new HDR/SM3.0 graphics tests, SM2.0 graphics tests, AI and physics driven single and multiple cores or processor CPU tests and a collection of comprehensive feature tests to reliably measure next generation gaming performance today. With 3DMark you are also able to publish/post/compare your systems results against people from around the world who have published their results from the same tests run within 3DMark via the internet at the end of your test. At the Phenom 9850 default clock speed of 2.50GHz, we received the following score and internet score in 3DMark:
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When we ran the test while overclocking the Phenom to 3.0 Hz, we received the following scores below to compare with our default scores above in 3DMark, Demonstrating that the overclocking did improve the performance we will achieve in games and applications as it increased our score by 859 points in 3DMark 06!
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WinRAR File Compression Tests:
In our file compression tests, we compared the Phenom X4 9850 at 2.5GHz and at 3.0GHz clock speed benchmark tests:
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Notice that the speed boost in both small and large file compression tests with regard to taking advantage of the unlocked 9850 cpu, and having it overclocked to 3.0GHz over the default 2.5GHz was substantial in seconds. Less seconds here is better.
Enemy Territory: Quake Wars:
We next ran this game at the 2.5GHz default Phenom 9850 clock speed and at the 3.0GHz overclocked speed with the chart showing the results we obtained running the game at 1280x1024 resolution with 2Gb of DDR2 ram and the nVidia 8800 GTX with 768MB of ram. Enemy Territory ran silky smooth at both speeds, but as we all know in first person shooter games, the more frames per second you have the better your aim and game experience will be as a result. The game had a mere 4.18 frames per second more when it was run at 3.0GHz over the 2.5GHz clocking.
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Crysis:
Next up we ran the game Crysis which has been known to be hard on existing systems than most other games. This game was tough on the system where fps are concerned but still played it very smoothly with all settings on high and 4 times Full Scene Anti-Aliasing (FSAA). We were unhappy to see that the improvement in frames-per-second from default clock speed to overclocked speed was less than 1 fps, which leads me to believe that the graphics gpu is what is being resourced the most from this game and would have to be optimized to see a noticeable improvement in fps. Nonetheless, the game played well with high settings at both speeds.
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