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Today we are using the top of the line AMD Phenom II X6 1110T processor with the ASUS Sabertooth 990FX motherboard.
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Asus Sabretooth 990FX System:
Processor: AMD Phenom II X6 1100T (gaming tests @ 4.3ghz)
Motherboard: Asus Sabretooth 990FX
Cooler: Antec Kuhler H20 920
Memory: Corsair Dominator 1600mhz 9-9-9-24
Power Supply: OCZ ZX 1250W
Optical Drive: Asus BluRay SBC-06d1S-U
Chassis: Thermaltake Level 10 GT
Monitors: 3x Dell U2410 and Dell U3011 Ultrasharp.
HDD/SSD: Intel 40GB SSD & 1TB Samsung (OCZ Vertex 3 240GB for CrystalDiskMark & HDTach)
Graphics cards for primary game testing:
AMD HD6990 / QuadFireX
AMD HD6970 (3 screen testing) / 2 & 3 way CrossfireX
AMD HD6950 / 2 way CrossfireX
Nvidia GTX590
Nvidia GTX580 / 2 way SLI
Nvidia GTX570
Graphics card for secondary (non gaming) synthetic testing:
AMD HD5770
Software:
Windows 7 64 Bit Enterprise Edition
Fraps Professional
SiSoft Sandra
CPUz
GPUz
CPUID Hardware Monitor Professional
Cinebench R11.5 64 bit
CyberLink PowerDvd 11 Ultra
Cyberlink Media Espresso
CrystalMark
HDTach
HQV Benchmark V 2.0
3DMark 11
Unigine Heaven Benchmark
Games:
Far Cry 2
Resident Evil 5
Battlefield Bad Company 2
Tom Clancy HAWX 2
Alien V Predator
Lost Planet 2
Metro 2033
Dead Space 2
Batman Arkham Asylum
Battleforge
Crysis Warhead
Devil May Cry 4
Left4Dead 2
Total War: Shogun 2
Home Front
All the latest BIOS updates and drivers are used during testing. We perform under real world conditions, meaning KitGuru tests across five closely matched runs and averages out the results to get an accurate median figure.
Funky colour scheme…. looks very similar to the ‘army’ MSI boards ive noticed in the last few months.
I really like the new bios systems. my bud bought a sandybridge board and they are leaps ahead of the older bios systems. This is a nice option for AMD lovers, but I wonder what percentage of sales these boards really get on the market against Sandybridge
Good boards, but the new cpus are the main thing im waiting on. id say SLI and CFx are small markets. a new range of CPUs might make AMD competitive again. If they can match the 2600k they are onto a winner, but its a tall order.
A lot of detail in this. I really do rate the X6 processors. I thought they would be pretty poor and my friend bought the 1090T and I wouldnt even know it wasn’t an intel chip. I suppose benchmarks highlight it more, but for gaming? I doubt anyone would know if someone changed their system without them looking.
Im excited to see the new CPU’s. Its a nice start, but its pretty uninspiring, apart from SLI support. and most people who want SLI will already have intel chipsets.
I bet this took some behind the scenes negotiations. Nvidia allowing AMD to use SLI.
Good move however and nice new range of boards. Will be looking forward to the new range of processors.
AMD have such a tough job really. Intel are dominating the CPU market. I do agree, the 1100T and 1090T are great products. for gaming they are perfect.
Asus make great boards, this is one of them. Sorry but im waiting for the new cpus before I even contemplate a new board. The current phenom X4 and X6 range doesnt appeal to me. im not a power user, but I dont see any reason yet to move to intel.
Finally a modern board that can do X16 sli, Intel can stick their thousand different socket types where they belong