EVEREST Ultimate Edition is a system diagnostics and benchmarking solution for enthusiasts PC users, based on the EVEREST Technology.

During system optimizations and tweaking it provides essential system and overclock information, advanced hardware monitoring and diagnostics capabilities to check the effects of the applied settings. CPU, FPU and memory benchmarks are available to measure the actual system performance and compare it to previous states or other systems. Furthermore, complete software, operating system and security information makes EVEREST Ultimate Edition a comprehensive system diagnostics tool. The software also includes several tests for memory and CPU/FPU.

Although the memory performance was always a strong point for AMD processors, this time we had mixed results. The memory copy performance was very good with 8.6MB/sec, but both memory read/write results were lower than the other Intel processors.

At the CPU tests, the Phenom X4 9950BE performed well getting the first place in several tests:

The FPU tests showed that AMD has learned from the past and now it is catching up with the Intel processors.

Summing all above results we can say that the Phenom X4 9950BE performed pretty well, but the Intel Q9300 was faster. Let's proceed to Sisof Sandra benchmarking software.

SiSoftware Sandra (the System ANalyser, Diagnostic and Reporting Assistant) is an information & diagnostic utility. It should provide most of the information you need to know about your hardware, software and other devices whether hardware or software. It works along the lines of other Windows utilities, however it tries to go beyond them and show you more of what's really going on. You can get information about the CPU, chipset, video adapter, ports, printers, sound card, memory, network, Windows internals, AGP, PCI, PCIe, ODBC Connections, USB2, 1394/Firewire, etc. Sisoft Sandra offers a variety of tests for Memory and CPU.

The Sisoft Sandra CPU/FPU/Memory tests gave different results than the Everest Ultimate Edition. In the majority of the CPU tests, we had much lower numbers, except the memory tests. While the AMD Phenom X4 9950 performed well in cpu tests, the Multimedia scores were very low.