These results are based on a 35 USD Heatpipe based CPU cooler. Even overclocked (over 4 GHz) we manage to keep really acceptable temperatures. This is one other thing we really have to complement AMD on, the temperatures of the Phenom II X6 processors are just phenomenal. We are cooling the processor with an OCZ Vendetta heatpipe based cooler only. Processor temperatures while 100% utilized remain at roughly 43 Degrees C / 109 F. Here you are looking at a CPU stress test. Let's put the PC under heavy load and see how temperatures behave. CPU + R5870Īpparently this chipset is a little more energy friendly. This is a complete PC with a high-end graphics card inserted (but GPU not stressed). Our system idles at merely roughly 75 Watts depending on the OS energy saving setting. We notice our test platform peaks out at roughly 176 Watts power consumption when we stress the six CPU cores. Today's setup uses a dedicated graphics card (Radeon HD 5870), you'll notice that the end-result overall in idle and peak wattage remains good. Let's build a system and see how that translates towards real-world power consumption. So the new Phenom II X6 processors have a respectable TDP (peak wattage) at 125 Watt, that's roughly similar to the most high-end (C3 revision) AMD Phenom II 965 quad-core processor, yet now the Phenom II X6 has two more cores while retaining that TDP.

Let's start off with the motherboard / Phenom II X6 combo in power consumption and temperatures first though. But for overclocking you'll notice some pretty interesting results alright. That means in the benchmarks there will be very little to compare at baseline level.

Before we start our physical testing, let me state that we'll be using the new Phenom II X6 1090T processor today in the review.

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