The guys over at
Bjorn3D found another thing to play with, this time getting their hands on the new
triple-core Phenom X3 8750 from AMD, the first of its kind in the market! Here's a taste:
"Thinking that having more cores would better? That is exactly what AMD is thinking. Today, AMD is once again being the first one on the market releasing the triple-core processor with their Phenom X3 8750. Does this processor can deliver a better performance than the dual-core processors, how does it compares to the quad core processors? Read our review and find out...."
I guess you should do what they say... read it
here.
And not to be outdone, the dudes at
Legit Reviews also got their grubby hands on this brand new processor and did their own review. Here's an excerpt:
"When it comes to performance the AMD Phenom X3 8750 performed much faster than the AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and actually beat out the AMD Phenom X4 9600 (Running the TLB Patch) in a number of benchmarks. It was also able to perform better than the Intel Core 2 Duo E7200 and Core 2 Duo E6750 as seen in the benchmarks. Intel still has the lead when overclocking, but AMD hasn't been marketing the Phenom X3 series as enthusiasts parts. With that said, we still managed to get another 500MHz out of the Phenom X3 8750 by overclocking just the bus frequency..."
Check out the full review
here.
- CL
