**A Look Back at the Phenom 2: A CPU from Another Era**

It's always fun to revisit the past and look back at some of the older CPUs that helped shape the industry into what it is today. The Phenom 2, released just before we started reviewing CPUs officially, was one such chip that was part of a serious era for CPUs. This article will take a closer look at the performance and capabilities of this CPU, as well as how it stacks up against some of its modern-day counterparts.

**Testing the Phenom 2: GTA V and Battlefield**

One of the tests we ran on the Phenom 2 was Grand Theft Auto V (GTA) with a frame rate average of around 81 FPS, which is relatively decent considering its age. The stock performance was around 62 FPS, and while it did encounter some stuttering issues at lower frame rates, these were largely mitigated in our testing. We also ran a test for Battlefield, which saw an average frame rate of around 93 FPS. This puts the Phenom 2 in a good position compared to other older CPUs on the market, such as AMD's FX 8370, which scored slightly lower.

**Overclocking and Performance Improvements**

One of the things we noticed when testing the Phenom 2 was that overclocking it did improve its performance. The 1055t overclocked version ran an average frame rate of over 60 FPS in both GTA V and Battlefield, which is a significant improvement over its stock performance. This suggests that with the right level of tweaking and tuning, this CPU can still deliver respectable performance.

**Comparison to Other CPUs: Ashes of the Singularity and DX12 Tests**

We also ran some tests for Ashes of the Singularity, which was basically non-functional on the Phenom 2. We had some issues with DX12 games as well, including Time Spy, but were able to run some of these tests using a workaround. The performance in these tests was not great, and we ultimately found that it's not worth talking about in the video.

**The Historical Context of the Phenom 2**

When the Phenom 2 launched, it was part of a serious era for CPUs that saw little to no growth in terms of performance from around 2011 onwards. This was largely due to Intel's dominance in the market, which made it difficult for AMD to catch up. However, the Phenom 2 itself did well considering its age and competed with other Lynx CPUs on the i5s.

**Upgrading to a Modern CPU**

If you have an old Phenom 2 lying around, it may be time to start thinking about upgrading. The good news is that modern-day CPUs are significantly faster, thanks in large part to advancements in manufacturing technology. However, there's also a downside: older CPUs like the Phenom 2 are now so bottlenecked by modern GPUs that they may not offer much of an advantage.

**Ryzen Revisited and Other Upcoming Tests**

We have some upcoming tests lined up, including another look at Ryzen performance. We'll be revisiting some of our old tests to see how things have changed since then, as well as running some new ones to give you a better idea of what these chips are capable of.

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**Conclusion**

Overall, the Phenom 2 may not be as exciting a CPU to look at today as some of its modern-day counterparts, but it's still an interesting piece of history that offers some insight into how far we've come in terms of CPU performance. If you're looking for a fun project or just want to learn more about one of the older CPUs that helped shape the industry, then this content is definitely worth checking out.

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enin our I5 2500 K and i7 2600k revisits we promised to also revisit one of amd's older CPUs against a modern Suite of processors but we weren't sure at the time which one to revisit the Phenom 2 Series eventually struck us as a perfect option to cover once again given its widespread adoption and high ratings on Old product pages and it's quite old at this point but still something that people use and these Flagship Phenom 2 CPUs were all built on 45 nom fabrication process and targeted to compete with 45 NM Lindfield Core i5 CPUs from the nalum line today we're revisiting the Phenom 2 CPUs before that this video is brought to you by corsair's new Vengeance RGB LED Ram which ships with custom screened ic's for better overclocking performance and stability given that memory is highly relevant for performance with new ryzen CPUs now is a good time to do research on high performance kits start with the Vengeance RGB LED kit at the link in the description below to provide some historical content on these CPUs AMD launched two Phenom 2x6 CPUs in April of 2010 starting with the 1055t which we have here and the 1090t Black Edition which we've got right here that we're revisiting today this launch had the 1090t priced at $295 out of the gate and the 1055t priced at $200 originally though it dropped a little bit later in December of 2011 down to $150 MSRP for the 1055t with a 109 9t also seen reductions this reduction was partly in response to Sandy Bridge which came out in early 2011 and also in response to amd's new architecture bulldozer which came out after the Phenom 2 line so that gives everyone some basic context the 1090t Black Edition was the higher end option and the 1055t was more of the mid-range unit again at $200 and the Phenom 2 CPUs had a really short period to shine but they did Shine when they launched they compet comped with the I5 nalem CPUs directly that would be lynfield of the time again 2010 first quarter first half anyway and later on about one year later first half of 2011 the Sandy bridge line would begin to ship with the first round of CPUs hitting Market in first quarter of 2011 meaning that Phenom 2 was sandwiched between what is arguably one of Intel's best architectures or at least most interesting even compared to today is given the limited game from Intel lately and one of amd's next architectures bulldozer Phenom 2 is right before those two launches so it was limited and we're revisiting it today to bring that went up to speed on the time looking back to on inch's initial review we see that they indicated the Phenom 2s performed well against Intel's 2010 quad core cvus for production that were behind in lightly threaded applications like games that's somewhat familiar even 7 years later with ryzen and Intel's current kbl lake CPUs after it launch these two AMD fedom 2 CPUs were followed by the 1035t 1045t a different 1055t than the one we tested a 1065t a 1075t and finally the 1100t Black Edition CPU just like ryzen these CPUs weren't actually different Beyond some clock and voltage changes which means that overclocking a 1055t 2 1090t clocks would get you the same performance just like overclocking a 1700 to an 1,800 X clock would get you the same performance on ryzen before jumping into the tests we've got an overclocking chart on the screen now note that testing methodology and overclocking details are linked in the article below including some of the guides we referenced for overclocking phenoms these were a bit different to overclock than the chips of today and there are a few more numbers to tune we've got them on the screen but more information in the article for the rest on that let's open up with some rendering and synthetic benchmarks starting with blender blender kicks us off on the X6 CPUs and should be an interesting place to gauge how some of the earliest consumer six cores have held on at stock speeds the 1055t is officially the slowest CPU we've tested in blender taking nearly 2 hours to render the 4K image that an i7 2600k completed in 73.9 minutes the 1090t didn't Fair much better at about 100 minutes to complete for a modern comparison from AMD the r7700 at $330 that we praised recently is priced similarly to to the Aged Phenom 2 1090t but completes the same render in 30 minutes stock settings overclocking the Phenom 2 CPUs allows the render to finish significantly faster with a 26.8% reduction in time required for the 1055t which is now down to 80 minutes and a 19.1% reduction in time required for the 1090t that lands both CPUs ahead of the overclocked 2500k ahead of the stock FX 8370 which was released several years later and about 2% behind the i54690k to refresh everyone the 4690k uses 22 NM process and launched 4 years after the 1055t and 1090t with a launch MSRP that was $45 higher a more blender ready CPU like the 2600k which was a hyperthreaded i7 completes the render in 74 minutes stock or about 55 minutes when overclocked cinebench is a synthetic Benchmark that got a lot of focused durin ryzen's launch and marketing so we're going to include it here to provide some comparisons and baselines against modern CPUs the extra threads on the Phenom 2x6 CPU benefit us with this test pushing the stock 1090t ahead of the i52500k or the overclocked 1090t and 1055t overclocked ahead of the overclocked 2500k again we end up just behind the 4690k once again when considering only multi-threaded performance that said in single-threaded performance both the 1055t OC and 1090t OC score lower than every CPU except the FX 8370 pile Drive driver CPU which again launched after both the 1055t and 1090t we'll point out that the 2600k cost $37 at launch $22 higher MSRP than the 1090t and 30% greater in stock performance in cinebench multi-threaded although the processors had probably been discounted by then the SNB launch came shortly after Phenom 2 and buldozer later drove prices down to compare against AMD CPUs today the X6 1090t overclock performance lands it at 596 multi-threaded and 104 single threaded whereas the r7700 stock performance lands it at 1421 multi-threaded and 149 single-threaded the r7700 stock CPU performs about 2.4 times faster in multi-threaded cine bench testing than the Phenom 2 1090t overclock CPU which was the flagship of its era like blender Adobe Premiere gives us a real world Benchmark of the cpu's rendering performance our Premier test uses our EVGA IC X review posted in February but it was also a test built for modern CPUs like ryzen the poor Phenom 2 chips sadly have a lot in front of them to handle because this is a heavy workload built for modern processors to give perspective on how the Phenom 2os have aged in Premiere we see that our overclocked 1055t completed rendering in 246 minutes or over 4 hours this would be the same time requirement as the 1090t overclocks for what it's worth in the same way that an overclock 1700 and an overclocked 1800x have the same clock for clock performance when you're testing in any application at all really like povray tests that are in the article the premier test has only recently been introduced and therefore is limited in how many devices are on the bench the previous maximum time was 163.5 minutes for the i57600k with a minimum CPU render time of 58 minutes on the 6900k Kuda renders of the same scene completed in about 20 minutes and the r7700 finished in 73 minutes stock or about 62 minutes when overclocked which again was impressive for that CPU at this point almost any modern affordable GPU will way out render the phenoms in Premiere and if you're looking to upgrade CPUs the R7 CPUs Breeze past the phenoms a few times over when looking strictly at the production workloads which is where rise and shines for 3D Mark charts and notes on time spy issues check the article Linked In the description below but now we're going to get started with some of our game benchmarks we look first to Watchdogs 2 for a modern heavily threaded title our overclocked 1055t outperforms the 1090t in this title thanks to higher memory frequency but the average is still just 48 fps or about 27% increase over stock performance the next CPU up is the I3 6300 which netted 54 FPS average 41 1% lows and 34 0.1% lows that's about 13% faster in averages than the overclocked Phenom 2 CPUs and a modern r7700 priced around $330 performs at 884 FPS stock or in the '90s when overclocked the 7700k for perspective pushes 113 FPS average when under stock configurations the Phenom 2 CPUs would bottleneck most modern video cards in this game including the GTX 1060 rx480 and rx580 and up cards and so if this is what you're running and you're trying to upgrade video cards it's probably time to upgrade the CPU as well moving now to Total War Warhammer the Phenom 2 X6 1055t operates at 65 FPS average with the overclock 1055t at 83 FPS average for an uplift of 28% that puts it behind the I5 2500 K from 2011 about a year after the Phenom launched and that's at 92 FPS average for the 2500k know that the 2500k has not been retested with the total war patch that improves frame Time Performance for all CPUs including Intel and am ryzen processors this means that any CPU you see in this chart without an AST next to its name would perform a few percentage points higher in averages with the patch and there would be bigger gains for low values so keep that in mind that said it's only a few percentage points in averages so this still serves as a good comparison considering we're looking at a chip that is 7 years old the 1090t is higher core overclock isn't as helpful as the memory overclock on the 1055t showing an additional choke point in the platform and finally the i7 2600 K before the Warhammer patch ran its FPS at around 113 FPS average GTA 5 has had some issues with higher frame rates that we've recently detailed and originally exposed in January but as these Phenom devices are slow enough to dodge the higher speed issues we can still use GTA for this test the 1055t overclocked six core runs an average FPS of about 81 with stock performance at around 62 FPS average lows are reasonable across the board as we don't encounter the stutter issue at this low of a frame rate and the I5 2500k runs its average at 101 FPS the lowest scoring Intel device on the bench amd's FX 8370 for point of reference was the previous lowest scorer on the bench at a 93 FPS average making it around 15% faster than the overclocked 1055t battlefield one overclocking the 1055t or 1090t CPUs improves us to North of 60 FPS across averages and lows smoothing over frame times and producing a frame rate that nears the FX 8370 CPU keep in mind of course that if you're playing heavily loaded multiplayer matches with a lot of actors in this screen these numbers will go down but they would go down linearly and we're just looking at Deltas here anyway for point of reference the i7 2600 K operates at about 118 FPS average when stock about 132 FPS average overclocked and the 2500k runs its average at about 115 FPS stock and finally ashes of the singularity was basically nonfunctional with this CPU we had some issues with dx12 games in general and time spy was another one which is a dx12 test so there are some some issues that we ran into with dx12 we were able to run some of those tests like ashes it's just the performance was really not great to the point that it's not worth talking about in the video however if you want to see the ashes charts including escalation they're Linked In the article in the description below so that you can read them in the article there by Patrick lean but talk about the conclusion here so the Phenom 2 it's kind of fun to revisit because the historical context of the Phenom 2 when it launched that was a pretty serious era for CPUs where looking at just after that launch just after 2011 there was sort of a stagnation for our market for the Enthusiast market in terms of CPU performance and growth from basically 2011 until now more or less cuz any of the Intel upgrades in between have been pretty unexciting if you're running something like a Sandy Bridge CPU already in fact we've said a few times lately at a 2600k to maybe a 7700k ignoring AMD for a moment if you're looking at linear upgrades only that's pretty good but anything below that was really unexciting and the Phenom 2 hasn't aged in quite the same way that the 2600 K has but it's also a bit older it's 45 nanometer manufacturing process and it competed with nalum the lynfield CPUs on the i5s so that's even a generation back from sandybridge That's How F far back we're looking uh they did well for considering how old they are but but yeah if you have one it's probably time to start thinking about an upgrade at least especially if you're already looking at GPU upgrades because you're definitely bottlenecking any type of modern GPU for the most part maybe the $100 gpus would skate by but anything over that CPU upgrades in order now that said the stuff to look at would be ryzen so we have our ryzen tests uh the most recent one would probably be the rise and revisit that's what we would encourage you to look at because that's got the most upto-date numbers from us and then we also Revisited the 2600k and 2500k if you're interested in those types of tests we have a bit more commentary on the era and the performance of those chips there uh but overall pretty fun project it is always cool to look back in history Phenom 2 came out before we started reviewing CPUs officially so uh there was a bit of a learning process just to read about all the old architectures always fun to do if you like this type of content you can support us directly on patreon.com Gamers Nexus we use some of that money to buy Phenom 2 1090t Black Edition which believe it or not 100 bucks for this thing on eBay it was one of the cheapest ones there uh so they the price is not that different from what they used to be you can go to patreon.com gam NEX help us out there or store. nexus.net for shirts like these we just restocked with tri Blends subscribe for more I'll see you all next time and rise and RIS and RIS and Rising RIS and RIS and rising Risingin our I5 2500 K and i7 2600k revisits we promised to also revisit one of amd's older CPUs against a modern Suite of processors but we weren't sure at the time which one to revisit the Phenom 2 Series eventually struck us as a perfect option to cover once again given its widespread adoption and high ratings on Old product pages and it's quite old at this point but still something that people use and these Flagship Phenom 2 CPUs were all built on 45 nom fabrication process and targeted to compete with 45 NM Lindfield Core i5 CPUs from the nalum line today we're revisiting the Phenom 2 CPUs before that this video is brought to you by corsair's new Vengeance RGB LED Ram which ships with custom screened ic's for better overclocking performance and stability given that memory is highly relevant for performance with new ryzen CPUs now is a good time to do research on high performance kits start with the Vengeance RGB LED kit at the link in the description below to provide some historical content on these CPUs AMD launched two Phenom 2x6 CPUs in April of 2010 starting with the 1055t which we have here and the 1090t Black Edition which we've got right here that we're revisiting today this launch had the 1090t priced at $295 out of the gate and the 1055t priced at $200 originally though it dropped a little bit later in December of 2011 down to $150 MSRP for the 1055t with a 109 9t also seen reductions this reduction was partly in response to Sandy Bridge which came out in early 2011 and also in response to amd's new architecture bulldozer which came out after the Phenom 2 line so that gives everyone some basic context the 1090t Black Edition was the higher end option and the 1055t was more of the mid-range unit again at $200 and the Phenom 2 CPUs had a really short period to shine but they did Shine when they launched they compet comped with the I5 nalem CPUs directly that would be lynfield of the time again 2010 first quarter first half anyway and later on about one year later first half of 2011 the Sandy bridge line would begin to ship with the first round of CPUs hitting Market in first quarter of 2011 meaning that Phenom 2 was sandwiched between what is arguably one of Intel's best architectures or at least most interesting even compared to today is given the limited game from Intel lately and one of amd's next architectures bulldozer Phenom 2 is right before those two launches so it was limited and we're revisiting it today to bring that went up to speed on the time looking back to on inch's initial review we see that they indicated the Phenom 2s performed well against Intel's 2010 quad core cvus for production that were behind in lightly threaded applications like games that's somewhat familiar even 7 years later with ryzen and Intel's current kbl lake CPUs after it launch these two AMD fedom 2 CPUs were followed by the 1035t 1045t a different 1055t than the one we tested a 1065t a 1075t and finally the 1100t Black Edition CPU just like ryzen these CPUs weren't actually different Beyond some clock and voltage changes which means that overclocking a 1055t 2 1090t clocks would get you the same performance just like overclocking a 1700 to an 1,800 X clock would get you the same performance on ryzen before jumping into the tests we've got an overclocking chart on the screen now note that testing methodology and overclocking details are linked in the article below including some of the guides we referenced for overclocking phenoms these were a bit different to overclock than the chips of today and there are a few more numbers to tune we've got them on the screen but more information in the article for the rest on that let's open up with some rendering and synthetic benchmarks starting with blender blender kicks us off on the X6 CPUs and should be an interesting place to gauge how some of the earliest consumer six cores have held on at stock speeds the 1055t is officially the slowest CPU we've tested in blender taking nearly 2 hours to render the 4K image that an i7 2600k completed in 73.9 minutes the 1090t didn't Fair much better at about 100 minutes to complete for a modern comparison from AMD the r7700 at $330 that we praised recently is priced similarly to to the Aged Phenom 2 1090t but completes the same render in 30 minutes stock settings overclocking the Phenom 2 CPUs allows the render to finish significantly faster with a 26.8% reduction in time required for the 1055t which is now down to 80 minutes and a 19.1% reduction in time required for the 1090t that lands both CPUs ahead of the overclocked 2500k ahead of the stock FX 8370 which was released several years later and about 2% behind the i54690k to refresh everyone the 4690k uses 22 NM process and launched 4 years after the 1055t and 1090t with a launch MSRP that was $45 higher a more blender ready CPU like the 2600k which was a hyperthreaded i7 completes the render in 74 minutes stock or about 55 minutes when overclocked cinebench is a synthetic Benchmark that got a lot of focused durin ryzen's launch and marketing so we're going to include it here to provide some comparisons and baselines against modern CPUs the extra threads on the Phenom 2x6 CPU benefit us with this test pushing the stock 1090t ahead of the i52500k or the overclocked 1090t and 1055t overclocked ahead of the overclocked 2500k again we end up just behind the 4690k once again when considering only multi-threaded performance that said in single-threaded performance both the 1055t OC and 1090t OC score lower than every CPU except the FX 8370 pile Drive driver CPU which again launched after both the 1055t and 1090t we'll point out that the 2600k cost $37 at launch $22 higher MSRP than the 1090t and 30% greater in stock performance in cinebench multi-threaded although the processors had probably been discounted by then the SNB launch came shortly after Phenom 2 and buldozer later drove prices down to compare against AMD CPUs today the X6 1090t overclock performance lands it at 596 multi-threaded and 104 single threaded whereas the r7700 stock performance lands it at 1421 multi-threaded and 149 single-threaded the r7700 stock CPU performs about 2.4 times faster in multi-threaded cine bench testing than the Phenom 2 1090t overclock CPU which was the flagship of its era like blender Adobe Premiere gives us a real world Benchmark of the cpu's rendering performance our Premier test uses our EVGA IC X review posted in February but it was also a test built for modern CPUs like ryzen the poor Phenom 2 chips sadly have a lot in front of them to handle because this is a heavy workload built for modern processors to give perspective on how the Phenom 2os have aged in Premiere we see that our overclocked 1055t completed rendering in 246 minutes or over 4 hours this would be the same time requirement as the 1090t overclocks for what it's worth in the same way that an overclock 1700 and an overclocked 1800x have the same clock for clock performance when you're testing in any application at all really like povray tests that are in the article the premier test has only recently been introduced and therefore is limited in how many devices are on the bench the previous maximum time was 163.5 minutes for the i57600k with a minimum CPU render time of 58 minutes on the 6900k Kuda renders of the same scene completed in about 20 minutes and the r7700 finished in 73 minutes stock or about 62 minutes when overclocked which again was impressive for that CPU at this point almost any modern affordable GPU will way out render the phenoms in Premiere and if you're looking to upgrade CPUs the R7 CPUs Breeze past the phenoms a few times over when looking strictly at the production workloads which is where rise and shines for 3D Mark charts and notes on time spy issues check the article Linked In the description below but now we're going to get started with some of our game benchmarks we look first to Watchdogs 2 for a modern heavily threaded title our overclocked 1055t outperforms the 1090t in this title thanks to higher memory frequency but the average is still just 48 fps or about 27% increase over stock performance the next CPU up is the I3 6300 which netted 54 FPS average 41 1% lows and 34 0.1% lows that's about 13% faster in averages than the overclocked Phenom 2 CPUs and a modern r7700 priced around $330 performs at 884 FPS stock or in the '90s when overclocked the 7700k for perspective pushes 113 FPS average when under stock configurations the Phenom 2 CPUs would bottleneck most modern video cards in this game including the GTX 1060 rx480 and rx580 and up cards and so if this is what you're running and you're trying to upgrade video cards it's probably time to upgrade the CPU as well moving now to Total War Warhammer the Phenom 2 X6 1055t operates at 65 FPS average with the overclock 1055t at 83 FPS average for an uplift of 28% that puts it behind the I5 2500 K from 2011 about a year after the Phenom launched and that's at 92 FPS average for the 2500k know that the 2500k has not been retested with the total war patch that improves frame Time Performance for all CPUs including Intel and am ryzen processors this means that any CPU you see in this chart without an AST next to its name would perform a few percentage points higher in averages with the patch and there would be bigger gains for low values so keep that in mind that said it's only a few percentage points in averages so this still serves as a good comparison considering we're looking at a chip that is 7 years old the 1090t is higher core overclock isn't as helpful as the memory overclock on the 1055t showing an additional choke point in the platform and finally the i7 2600 K before the Warhammer patch ran its FPS at around 113 FPS average GTA 5 has had some issues with higher frame rates that we've recently detailed and originally exposed in January but as these Phenom devices are slow enough to dodge the higher speed issues we can still use GTA for this test the 1055t overclocked six core runs an average FPS of about 81 with stock performance at around 62 FPS average lows are reasonable across the board as we don't encounter the stutter issue at this low of a frame rate and the I5 2500k runs its average at 101 FPS the lowest scoring Intel device on the bench amd's FX 8370 for point of reference was the previous lowest scorer on the bench at a 93 FPS average making it around 15% faster than the overclocked 1055t battlefield one overclocking the 1055t or 1090t CPUs improves us to North of 60 FPS across averages and lows smoothing over frame times and producing a frame rate that nears the FX 8370 CPU keep in mind of course that if you're playing heavily loaded multiplayer matches with a lot of actors in this screen these numbers will go down but they would go down linearly and we're just looking at Deltas here anyway for point of reference the i7 2600 K operates at about 118 FPS average when stock about 132 FPS average overclocked and the 2500k runs its average at about 115 FPS stock and finally ashes of the singularity was basically nonfunctional with this CPU we had some issues with dx12 games in general and time spy was another one which is a dx12 test so there are some some issues that we ran into with dx12 we were able to run some of those tests like ashes it's just the performance was really not great to the point that it's not worth talking about in the video however if you want to see the ashes charts including escalation they're Linked In the article in the description below so that you can read them in the article there by Patrick lean but talk about the conclusion here so the Phenom 2 it's kind of fun to revisit because the historical context of the Phenom 2 when it launched that was a pretty serious era for CPUs where looking at just after that launch just after 2011 there was sort of a stagnation for our market for the Enthusiast market in terms of CPU performance and growth from basically 2011 until now more or less cuz any of the Intel upgrades in between have been pretty unexciting if you're running something like a Sandy Bridge CPU already in fact we've said a few times lately at a 2600k to maybe a 7700k ignoring AMD for a moment if you're looking at linear upgrades only that's pretty good but anything below that was really unexciting and the Phenom 2 hasn't aged in quite the same way that the 2600 K has but it's also a bit older it's 45 nanometer manufacturing process and it competed with nalum the lynfield CPUs on the i5s so that's even a generation back from sandybridge That's How F far back we're looking uh they did well for considering how old they are but but yeah if you have one it's probably time to start thinking about an upgrade at least especially if you're already looking at GPU upgrades because you're definitely bottlenecking any type of modern GPU for the most part maybe the $100 gpus would skate by but anything over that CPU upgrades in order now that said the stuff to look at would be ryzen so we have our ryzen tests uh the most recent one would probably be the rise and revisit that's what we would encourage you to look at because that's got the most upto-date numbers from us and then we also Revisited the 2600k and 2500k if you're interested in those types of tests we have a bit more commentary on the era and the performance of those chips there uh but overall pretty fun project it is always cool to look back in history Phenom 2 came out before we started reviewing CPUs officially so uh there was a bit of a learning process just to read about all the old architectures always fun to do if you like this type of content you can support us directly on patreon.com Gamers Nexus we use some of that money to buy Phenom 2 1090t Black Edition which believe it or not 100 bucks for this thing on eBay it was one of the cheapest ones there uh so they the price is not that different from what they used to be you can go to patreon.com gam NEX help us out there or store. nexus.net for shirts like these we just restocked with tri Blends subscribe for more I'll see you all next time and rise and RIS and RIS and Rising RIS and RIS and rising Rising\n"