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Review: AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition CPU - fighting back against Sandy Bridge?

by Tarinder Sandhu on 10 January 2011, 10:00 3.0

Tags: AMD (NYSE:AMD)

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Gaming benchmarks

A high-end Radeon HD 6950 card makes mincemeat of the Call of Duty: Black Ops gaming test, and it shows that there's little difference in performance when CPUs are switched around.

But some games rely on brute subsystem power at medium-quality settings. StarCraft II is a case in point; there's a huge difference between the best and worst CPUs here. Intel has a commanding lead, clearly.