The new AMD Overdrive version 3. Unfortunately, the list of memory modules supported by this BEMP technology is still pretty limited and it seems to be expanding slowly. The second function that we would like to specifically mention in this chapter of our review is called Smart Profiles. This technology allows to speed up or even slow down the CPU cores for certain tasks. Overdrive can determine what applications are active at a given moment of time and depending on that reconfigure the system parameters accordingly.
The utility has a certain number of presaved profiles, mostly for popular games new profiles can be downloaded automatically from the AMD web-server , but you can also configure all parameters manually. The value of this technology is also in the fact that profile settings allow changing the multipliers for all processor cores independently. Therefore, if some game uses only two processor cores, you can lower the frequency of the other two for the time being, thus saving some power and ensure better overclocking of the active cores, for example.
With some persistence on your end you could increase the efficiency of your system. AMD makes the user responsible for managing the interactive adjustment of the CPU clock speed, which limits the functionality of Smart Profiles. To our regret, Phenom II X4 runs worse in gaming applications than in general-purpose tasks.
In other words, gaming tests show very clearly that Stars K10 microarchitecture used by AMD is getting dangerously close to becoming completely obsolete. Moreover the Core i working at a lower clock frequency is even farther ahead of the new Phenom II X4 in contemporary games than Core 2 Quad Q So, it will be extremely hard for AMD to eventually compete against the upcoming Lynnfield processors. Video encoding is the type of work that AMD processors are especially good at.
As a result, Phenom II X4 will be able to compete successfully only against those Lynnfield CPUs that will belong to the Core i series, but not against the Core i supporting this technology. It is quite expected that during video editing the situation is pretty much the same as during video encoding it is especially true for the indisputable advantage demonstrated by the CPUs with Hyper-Threading support.
However, do not forget that we are comparing the new AMD processor against the previous generation Intel solution that has been in the market for almost two years. As for the comparison against a more advanced Core i7 CPU, there is not a single chance: just take a look at the diagram and see for yourselves.
Final rendering in 3D modeling suites can be easily split into parallel threads that is why we are not surprised to see Core i7 do so well in the first two tests.
As we see, the top Phenom II X4 can barely compete against the middle solution from the previous generation Intel lineup. Phenom II X4 processor launch is hardly an unexpected event. Once AMD got the new 45 nm Deneb core at their disposal that featured much more impressive frequency potential than the previous Agena core, they started pushing its frequencies higher and higher in an attempt to catch up with Core 2 Quad and Core i7 that have gone far ahead by then.
And today the clock speed of Phenom II X4 processor family has reached 3. But unfortunately, this high clock speed revealed all the drawbacks of Stars K10 microarchitecture that AMD have been using in their processors for the last 2 years. As we have seen during our tests, the new Phenom II X4 working at 3. It is this particular fact, but not the insufficiently high clock speeds, that do not allow AMD solutions to find their way into the high-end price segments.
And within this period of time Intel may not only expand their Lynnfield processor family, but also start production of 32 nm technologies. However, it still has a few very serious drawbacks, such as high power consumption and lower performance during overclocking can scare away some of the potential Phenom II X4 owners. The market for small fingertip mice has been stale for quite a while with most mice being quite big and unruly for this specific grip style. If you are the type of person that likes to listen to music on the go a lot, you might have noticed that the best experience while being out and about is most likely offered by in-ear buds.
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