System Setup

Test System submitted by AMD:

AMD Phenom 9900 (2.6GHz)
AMD Phenom 9700 (2.4GHz)
AMD Phenom 9500 (2.2GHz)
ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe
ATI Radeon HD 3850 w/Catalyst 7.10 Press Driver

Our testbed

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 (3.0GHz)
Intel Core 2 Q6700 (2.67GHz)
Intel Core 2 Q6400 (2.4GHz)

ASUS P5E3 Deluxe Wi-Fi AP

2GB Corsair TWIN2X2048-6400C3
2GB OCZ DDR3-1800 Platinum Series

ATI Radeon HD 3850 w/Catalyst 7.10 Press Driver

Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit

Benchmarks

Windows Media Encoder 9
Enemy Territor Quake Wars Demo
Crysis Demo CPU Benchmark
Call of Duty 4 Demo
Lost Planet DX9 Demo Cave Benchmark
Cinebench 10

Notes

Obviously since I was on the road I couldn’t truck all my game CDs I use for testing with me, so I simply transferred as many game demos as I could to the Phenom system AMD had setup for testing. I only had enough time to run 4 game benchmarks, as well as WME9, Valve’s particle simulation test, and Cinebench.