Back in April, Benchmark Reviews covered the release of AMD’s flagship quad-core processor, the Phenom II X4 955 BE. Nearly four months later, we have that opportunity once again. Today, we look at the new king of the mountain over at the AMD, the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor model HDZ965FBGIBOX. Coming in at 3.4GHz, it not only bests the previous flagship model by 200Mhz, but also happens to be the highest clocked CPU on the market. In today’s review, we find out how well that exta clockspeed translates to performance. Aside from operating frequency, the 3.4GHz Phenom II X4 965 isn’t much different than its 3.2GHz counterpart. Read more…
