Reviews - AMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition: dual-core Phenom at the ready

[HEXUS]

AMD's officially launching dual-core Athlons based on quad-core Phenom technology. Good enough to beat out Core 2? We tell you.

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[staffsMike]

That's a little annoying, I'd have probably bought one last week. Oh well, quad core it has to be

[chaotic_russ]

so when can we buy one in the uk ?

[tonpal]

No surprises there. It is a cut down Phenom and it performs like a cut down Phemon.

Lets see if AMD can pull one out of the bag in January with Phenom II.

[kalniel]

Yup, the higher cache phenom IIs should be quite interesting - if not in average score then in minimums, as Hexus found with the encoding tests.

[mercyground]

no overclocking?

i'd be interested in how high the dual cores would go.

[BartmanTaz]

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[shaffaaf27]

power consumption?

[Tarinder]

power consumption?

An entire page went missing for a while, it seems. The figures are on page nine.

[chaotic_russ]

seem odd to me why it performs this poorly compair to other site's reviews with same setup , why is this

[kalniel]

seem odd to me why it performs this poorly compair to other site's reviews with same setup , why is this

Any examples?

[IITravel]

Stating which bios you used would be helpful. I suspect it was the F2 for the Gigabyte 790gx and not the new F3H now available.

[neoanderthal]

You'll have to pardon my question if it's explained elsewhere, but I've just signed on here. How does Hexus.PiFast compare with the PiFast found at numbers.computation.free.fr? I obtained the Windows binary from that site, and ran it against a pair of servers I manage equipped with Opteron 1214 processors (2.2GHz, 90nm), and using the fastest computation methods of this particular program, the 1214 will calculate 10,000,000 digits of pi in a bit less than 41 seconds. All of my Intel servers utilize older technology, which doesn't really tell me much (other than that a Nocona-based Xeon requires a bit less than 62 seconds to complete the same task) from the Intel side of things.
This isn't to nitpick the review, of course - I think many of us who may've been loudly shouting for AMD to give us a dual-core with more L2 or an L3 cache are somewhat disappointed with the Kuma results *guilty look*. I would simply like to get a feel for how the new part compares with my rattletrap 5000+BE at home, and am looking for a solid basis for comparison.

[kalniel]

neoanderthal, this might help you compare with the review:

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardwa...ing-again.html