AMD Phenom 2 X4 965 Black Edition 125W 3.4GHz Socket AM3

In mid August, we reviewed the original AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor. Aside slight updates that have been made to the processor, it is essentially the same and it's performance at default frequencies certainly reflects this. Not a...

CPU testing consists of more than just synthetic benchmarks, synthetic benchmarks are good for measuring performance differences between CPU's but it doesn't tell you a lot about real life performance. To that end we drove the Phenom 2 X4 965 BE...

Benchmark Reviews begins each conclusion with a short summary for each area that we rate. The first is performance, which considers how effective the 125W AMD Phenom II X4 965 processor operated in relation to the closest price-point competition....

With some obvious and noteworthy improvements to the C3 revision of the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, it's now become a slightly more attractive alternative to the strong Intel competition.The vastly improved memory controller overclocking...

AMD's initial quad-core AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition processor was the fastest chip to date for the socket AM3 platform, and was quite affordable at the release price of $265 CDN (that price has now dropped to $195 as well). The 140W Phenom II...

Ultimately this isn't a game changer for Phenom II but it's nice to see AMD continue to make improvements to it's process and less power consumption is always better. Of course it may not be able to compete with the idle power ratings as...