AMD Phenom X4 9600 Performance Preview
 

It’s hard to draw any solid conclusions based on what we’ve observed today. As mentioned before, some of our results have been…. Odd. The results achieved by the Phenom X4 9600 showed a tendency to sea-saw between extremely promising and extremely disappointing. There have been many people waiting for this chip and we all hope this is not as good as it gets. Whether performance (or lack thereof) can be attributed to the immature state of our board BIOS or some other factor is yet to be determined, but we were expecting so much more out of the Phenom...

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