Test: Phenom II X3 720 2,8Ghz "Black Edition" UK

Overclocking

And now to the part where we're supposed to find out if there's any truth in AMD's rumor, the so-called 'headroom'. We can translate the word to OC-potential, which has quite frankly been one of the old Phenom-series of processors major disappointments.

We managed to bump the Phenom II X3 720 Black Edition up to 3750 MHz - which was achieved by changing the following settings in the BIOS:
 

• Multiplier 14 -> 15
• Bus-speed 200 -> 250 MHz
• HT Link 2.0 GHz -> 2.5 GHz
• vCore 1.35 -> 1.55v

- This is a 34% increase of clock-frequency compared to the standard speed. Lets see how the numbers change accordingly.

3Dmark06

3DMarks / Higher is better

3DMark Vantage 64-bit

3DMarks / Higher is better

Call of Juarez 64-bit

FPS / Higher is better

Cinebench 64-bit

CB-CPU / Higher is better

Crysis 64-bit

FPS / Higher is better

Everest

MB/s / Higher is better

Furmark

FPS / Higher is better

Lightsmark

FPS / Higher is better
 

PassMark

Points / Higher is better

PCMark05

PCMarks / Higher is better

PCMark Vantage 64-bit

PCMarks / Higher is better

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Arithmetic

GIPS/GFLOPS / Higher is better

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Arithmetic Performance vs. Speed

MIPS/MHz - MFLOPS/MHz / Higher is better

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Multi-Core Effeciency

    
GB/s / Higher is better - ns / Lower is better

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Multi-Core Effeciency Performance vs. speed

    
MB/s/MHz / Higher is better - ns/MHz / Lower is better
 

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Multi-Media

MPixel/s / Higher is better

Sisoft Sandra 64-bit Processor Multi-Media Performance vs. speed

kPixels/s/MHz / Higher is better

Science Mark

Points / Higher is better

SuperPI

Seconds / Lower is better

Wprime

Seconds / Lower is better

We'll summarize on the next page. It'll take a little longer than usual as there are quite many graphs and numbers to digest.