Mesh Matrix II 955BE Hush Gaming PC
BIOS
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Given that the Matrix II 955BE comes with a retail motherboard, the BIOS is very comprehensive offering a full host of overclocking functions and memory tweaking options. The Gigabyte GA770T-UD3P is a relatively new Socket AM3 motherboard to the market offering a robust solution with respectable 8+2 phase power regulation, 2 ounces copper PCB and the incorporation of the updated SB710 Southbridge which supports Advance Clock Calibration, a fairly redundant feature for Phenom II Quad Cores, but offers the ability to unlock Dual and Tri Core CPU’s. For performance purposes, up to DDR3-1666 is supported, an increase from the default DDR3-1333 officially supported by AMD. Overclocking shall be covered towards the end of the review.
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Testing
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As shown, the system is performing exactly as it should be and based on itâs scores, one would consider it a rather potent gaming machine.
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Another set of excellent results in Futuremarkâs latest 3D Benchmarking program.
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This is Futuremarkâs overall system benchmark, which will test aspects of the system which are also in keeping with general purpose usage. This makes it a slightly more sensible benchmark. Again, very predictable results are generated by the Matrix II 955BE.
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Cinebench is a CPU intensive benchmark, which renders a photograph with either one of the CPUâs cores or all of them. Once it has finished rendering the photograph, a score is generated. The Phenom II X4 955 performed very well in this test, rendering the photograph in just over a minute in multithreaded mode. While a Core i7 would have finished the benchmark quicker, the result is well within the realms of itâs competing Core 2 Quad Q9x50 processors.
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This result showed the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition performing just behind the Core 2 Quad Q9550 according to SiSoft Sandraâs preloaded CPU data.
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This result showed the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition performing between the Core 2 Quad Q9550 and QX9650 processors, an excellent result given the price of the CPU in relation to Intel competition.
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Memory bandwith and latency was exactly as expected when compared to preloaded data for DDR3-1333 Memory. No weakness in the hardware was apparent.
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The Samsung 750GB 7200RPM Hard Disk Drive performed very well in this test and also indicates that the AMD SB710 Southbridge will not hold back drives of this calibre. Â