AMD Phenom X3 8750 Processor Review @ NS

Regeneration · Posted by Regeneration on April 26th, 2008, 09:04 PM

The AMD Phenom 8750 runs at 2.4GHz (12x200) and is based on the same die as the quad core Phenom processors. As you may be aware, the initial launch of the quad core Phenom processors was plagued by the "TLB erratum" - a bug that could cause occasionally cause the processor to hang under certain heavy loads. Since then, AMD has come out with a new 'B3' stepping of the Phenom die, and this stepping apparently fixes the erratum - which is a very good thing as in our testing, the microcode based fix could have a significant impact on performance.

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**Posted by Unixlord on April 26th, 2008, 10:24 PM**

The TLB erratum was a known issue since K6 and it's never been a problem from desktop use.

Intel's core2 had lots of bugs at the very least 3 bugs in the MMU that could cause "unpredictable behavior or system hang" and had to be fixed in later steppings the rest have been fixed in bios updates and/or windows hotfixes.