Bring in the Quad Core, Hardware system #8

Still out to prove I am not an AMD or Intel fan boy I bring in my two Quad core systems.  The first of which will be an AMD.  Right now with a lot of people asking about whether to wait and see if Sandy Bridge will be fixed soon and whether all the problems will truly be fixed, they want alternatives.  The other problem that people get upset about is the constant change of sockets in the Intel side where AMD is a little better at making backwards compatibility.  Already a few motherboard makers have proven you can run older Core i5 series chips in the LGA 1156 on the 6 series chipsets.  Why did Intel change the socket to 1155?  Many people believe it was to force a whole new hardware change.  I for one had not jumped into the Core series because I kept hearing of a socket change.  Intel had already did it once when the came out with the first Core chips that required LGA 1366.  People who jumped onto the X58 chipsets and boards were met with pricey chips and triple channel memory.  For the enthusiast it was well worth it.  But then LGA 1156 came out and there were many more chip options for it and it seemed like LGA 1366 only received a few.  LGA 1156 had some chips that were cheaper than the 1366 options and could outperform them.  One could also buy value chips in the 1156 range with the Pentium Dual Core and Core i3 options.  Now Sandy Bridge is requiring a socket and chipset change and how long will Intel produce anymore new options and chips for 1156?  It wasn't long after 1156 came out that the options for socket 775 became fairly limited in the high end, only value chips.
So this brings me to AMD who has been much better to move its socket changes a little more cautiously and continue to allow the CPUs for the most part to be backwards compatible.  AMD has Socket AM2, AM2+, and AM3 which are all very similar and many chips designed for the newest will work in the older.  The AM3 chipset primarily brought forth DDR3 up from DDR2 memory of the AM2 generation.
AMD has created a new generation of affordable six core processors and they are backwards compatible to the AM2+.
So I am answering the question of people who want longevity and a current system for a great value that they invest in AM3 and the Phenom X6 chip or hold out to see what happens to Sandy Bridge.


Hardware #8 System Components:
CPU AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition 2.5Ghz, 4 Cores / 4 Threads (Quad Core), 2MB Cache, 2Ghz Rated Hypertransport
Socket 940, Agena 65nm, Stepping 3, Revision B3, Multiplier 12.5x, FSB-400Mhz
MMX, 3DNow, SSE 1,2,3,4a, x86-64, AMD-V

Board DFI AMD 790FX / SB600, Socket 940
6 * SATA, 12 * USB

Video No integrated graphics on the AMD 790FX series chipsets.  
Add-In Board NVidia GeForce 6200, NV44
Revision A1, 110nm, PCI, DDR 64-bit, DirectX 9c,
256MB Dedicated Memory, 300Mhz GPU


RAM 2GB (2 * 1GB) Crucial DDR2 1000 (PC2-8000)
Running at 400Mhz Dual Channel Mode (DDR2-800), CAS 5-5-5-18, 1.8V
2047 MB Total, 1680MB Free after clean install

Not in use for testing:
Sound Realtek HD Audio (onboard)
LAN Marvell Yukon Gigabit (onboard)


Common Components to be used in all tests unless noted otherwise:
Hard Drive Western Digital Caviar Blue 250GB, 7200RPM, 8MB Cache, SATA II 3Gbps
Optical AOpen DUW1608 Dual Layer DVD Writer ATAPI/EIDE
Power Supply 450 Watt 80+ Certified Modular Power Supply
KVM USB KVM with Logitech Optical Mouse, 104 Keyboard, 17" LCD DVI/VGA

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