January 8th, 2008
Hands-on with the AMD Spider - Phenom 9700, 790 chipset and Radeon 3850 graphics
A few days before Christmas I got my hands on an AMD “Spider” Phenom 9700-based system. Since my head was ringing to the tune of “Jingle Bells” at the time, and because I had troubles downloading a needed BIOS update, all this conspired to mean that I didn’t really get the chance to talk about the system that much before Holidays. Now that I’ve had a chance to have some serious hands-on time with the system, I feel that I can ready to post the first of what is likely to be a series of articles about this system.
In case you’ve forgotten, here’s the spec of the system:
- Phenom 9700 quad-core processor (with a very nice looking heatsink/fan assembly …)
- ATi Radeon 3850 graphics card with 256MB RAM
- ASUS M3A32-MVP Deluxe motherboard incorporating AMD 790 series chipset with onboard Ethernet and 8-channel audio
- 2GB (2 x 1GB) Corsair Dominator CM2X1024-8500C5D RAM
- Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM 150GB primary hard drive
- Western Digital Caviar 7,200RPM 500GB secondary hard drive
- Sony 18x DVD-RW SATA drive
- ASUS DVD-ROM SATA drive
- 700W Seasonic ATX12V PSU
- Lian-Li PC-7 chassis
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