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Sandra CPU

For the raw CPU test, the TLB fix appears to have no impact on the Phenom 9600 Black Edition - as a matter of fact, the newer MSI K9A2 Platinum appears to be a hair faster than the MSI K9A2 CF motherboard the non-black Phenom 9600 was tested in.

Sandra Bandwidth

Neither the TLB erratum fix nor the AOD utility affected memory bandwidth much in Sandra tests; but note how much better the dual core Athlon 64 X2 6400+ memory performance is!

WinRAR

OUCH OUCH OUCH!

The TLB "fix" absolutely devastates single threaded WinRAR performance. The test without the fix is 2.3X faster!

WinRAR MT

Very interesting. Even disabling the "TLB fix" in the BIOS still does not restore the performance of WinRAR MT - this tells me that the "fix disable" does not disable all parts of the fix.

This benchmark has horrible performance with the fix enabled.