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Review: When quad-cores collide: AMD Phenom 9600 vs Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600

by Tarinder Sandhu on 19 November 2007, 11:31

Tags: Core 2 Quad Q6600, Phenom X4 9600, Intel (NASDAQ:INTC), AMD (NYSE:AMD), PC

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MSI K9A2 Platinum BIOS



Jumping straight to the adjustments possible.

Item Adjustment
HT reference clock 200MHz to 600MHz in 1MHz steps
HT multiplier x1-x13 200-2600MHz (x1 increments)
Memory clock 1:1/1:1.33/1:1.66/1:2/1:2.66 (400/533/667/800/1066). 1066 is non-working currently
Memory VDIMM 1.80-3.10V
1.80-2.10V in 0.05V increments
2.10-2.70V in 0.1V increments
2.70 -3.10V in 0.2V increments
NB voltage 1.125-1.525V
1.124-1.475v in 0.025V increments
1.475-1.525v in 0.05V increments
HT voltage 1.175-1.525V in 0.025V increments


Discussion

We've left out a huge range of options, including CPU FID and VID; northbridge FID and VID; northbridge DID because they weren't working correctly in our sample. We'll revisit this section once a shipping BIOS is forwarded to us.