We are testing the Phenom II X2 560 CPU against the Athlon II X2 265 CPU. The Phenom II X2 560 is clocked at 3300Mhz which is the same as the Athlon II X2 265. The Phenom II X2 560 supports MMX+, 3DNow+, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A, x86-64 and AMD-V. A big advantage for the Phenom II X2 560 is the 6MB Level 3 Cache while the Athlon II X2 265 has none. We will be using Benchmarks for testing the Phenom II X2 560 and Athlon II X2 265 which are:- Cinebench, Everest, Geekbench, Novabench and Nuclearus. Games are Hawk 2 and Lost Planet 2.
Today, we will take on the Sapphire Pure Platinum H67. Yes, Sapphire is making motherboards again. If you weren't aware of this, then we suggest taking a look at our exclusive on their P67 offering here. Getting back to the matter at hand, the Pure Platinum H67 takes advantage of everything the H67 chipset has to offer like SATA III, PCIe 2.0, built-in graphics and support for the Sandy Bridge processor. Sapphire is entering every phase of motherboard manufacturing, but lets see if the Pure Platinum H67 is worthy of your dollar bills.
The Zotac GTX 560 Multiview brings native 3 monitor support to the nVidia table. With HDMI, DVI-d, and DP on a GTX 560, how can you go wrong? We show you why the GTX 560 may bring some additional problems to the table.
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The G1-Killer Sniper 2 is a Z68 based motherboard that has been designed specifically for hardcore gaming. In a world where gaming and enthusiast systems have been combined we find this to be a rather bold product decision.