Phenom II 965 Black edition Options

[heyo-captain-jac...]

There is little or no doubt that AMD's Shanghai e.g. K10.5 architecture is the best one to date. Six years after the debut of original K8 architecture [Opteron/Athlon 64], its modified version is finally passing the thermal-imposed barrier of 3.2 GHz.

In only ten days time [NDA on processors that AMD sent out to selected reviewers expires on August 13th, 2009 at 06:01AM], AMD will release the Phenom II 965 Black Edition, a multiplier-unlocked processor ticking at 3.4 GHz with the expected power consumption. After the unhappy break that was K10 e.g. Barcelona/Agena, it is good to see AMD improving on the CPU core and releasing faster clocked products and keeping roughly the same thermal levels just like they did with Athlon and Athlon 64.

Also worth noting is that we might see AMD or Intel releasing the fastest clocked x86 processor of all times in 2010 - the current record lies with Pentium Extreme Edition 965 clocked at 3.73 GHz, featuring a "lovely" real-world TDP of 162W. With advancements in process technology, a 162W TDP would now fit a quad-core processor at 4+GHz, instead of dual-core at 3.73 GHz - can anyone say that technology is not moving ahead?

To make matters more interesting, it looks like AMD decided to battle Intel with legalized overclocking - given that the Phenom II 900 series mostly consists out of Black Edition CPUs. In fact, we might argue that AMD is mostly targeting overclockers now - if you take a look at the whole Athlon II and Phenom II line-up, you'll see that the percentage of Black Edition processors is unusually high.

Expected to be greater than or equal to the i7 940. Looking good, AMD. I'm just wanting this to shove the price of the 955 way down.

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/...3th2c-2009.aspx


Edit: Corrected error in title. It's Phenom II 965, not Phenom 965.

[Uronacid]

I'm looking forward to this.

[illriginal]

If it can push 6.8ghz or better, it'll be a worthy chip. I can imagine they're gonna price this in the $300 range.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

If it can push 6.8ghz or better, it'll be a worthy chip. I can imagine they're gonna price this in the $300 range.

6.8? That breaks records all over the place. I can imagine it going in the 5 GHz, but 6.8 is a bit unlikely.

If I had to guess on the price, I'd say $240-$260.

[illriginal]

6.8? That breaks records all over the place. I can imagine it going in the 5 GHz, but 6.8 is a bit unlikely.

If I had to guess on the price, I'd say $240-$260.

i7 is pushing 6.8 GHz. I'm sure AMD can back their shit up.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

Don't know where you got that, last I saw, i7 record was 5.5 GHz, and that's with a thousand dollar processor.

[illriginal]

Of course you don't. Even a P4 has pushed 8.2GHz.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

fyi all the top frequency records are with Pentium 4 and Celeron processors.

also found this



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aka the Phenom II record is higher than the i7 record and the 965 will push 6.8 no problem.

I should start paying more attention to overclocking records.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16819103692
At 250 and free shipping this is a bargin!

Clocked at 3.4 w/6mb cache!

Order before the sell out (and they will sell out)

[Nickfury]

upgrading a processor is to hard work. last time i tried bout 5 pins got broke.

[heyo-captain-jac...]

upgrading a processor is to hard work. last time i tried bout 5 pins got broke.

No, it really isn't. Removing the cooler is the hardest part.

[Uronacid]

upgrading a processor is to hard work. last time i tried bout 5 pins got broke.

O _ o

Was the CPU soldered into the Mother Board? I read the review for this CPU. It's pretty good.