Pentium J2900 CPU Review

How We Tested

During our benchmarking sessions, we used the configuration listed below. Between our benchmarking sessions, the only variable device was the CPU being tested and the motherboard, which had to be replaced to match the different CPU sockets.

Hardware Configuration

• Motherboard (Pentium J2900): ASRock Q2900M
• Motherboard (A4-5000): ASRock QC5000-ITX
• Motherboard (Sempron 2650): ASUS AM1M-A
• Motherboard (Celeron J1800): ASRock D1800M
• CPU Cooler: Intel/AMD stock
• Memory: 8 GiB DDR3-2133, two G.Skill Ripjaws F3-17000CL9Q-16GBZH 4 GiB memory modules configured at 1333 MHz
• Boot drive: Kingston HyperX Fury 240 GB
• Video Card: integrated
• Video Monitor: LG Flatron W1942S
• Power Supply: Seventeam ST-550P-AM

Operating System Configuration

• Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
• NTFS
• Video resolution: 1440×900 60 Hz

Driver Versions

• AMD driver version: 14.9
• Intel video driver version: 15.33.13.3408
• Intel Inf chipset driver version: 9.4.5.1006

Software Used

• PCMark 8 12.2.282
• DivX 10.2.3
• Media Espresso 6.7
• DVD Shrink 3.2
• Far Cry 3
• 3DMark 1.2.362

Error Margin

We adopted a 4% error margin. Thus, differences below 4% cannot be considered relevant. In other words, products with a performance difference below 4% should be considered as having similar performance.