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14 Aug 2009
Chip maker AMD has unveiled the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, which it claims is the world's highest frequency quad-core desktop processor.
The 45nm CPU clocks at a stock frequency of 3.4GHz, but AMD reckons there is plenty of headroom to take this even higher. The chip is designed to work best as part of the company's Dragon platform technology, aimed at high-end users who need a lot of desktop processing power.
AMD is pitting this chip head to head with the new Core i7 Nehalem processors from rival Intel.
Each of the Phenom II X4 965's four cores includes 512KB of L2 cache and that is encased in another 6MB of L3 cache. Furthermore, the chip will work with both the AM3 and AM2+ socket motherboard and is compatible with both DDR2 and DDR3 system memory.
Despite the high performance, AMD claims the 965 will not be a power hog thanks to its support for Cool'n'Quiet 3.0 power thermal management technology, and features that allow inactive portions of the processor to be clocked down when not needed.
The AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition is expected to sell for around $245 (£147.69).
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I'm Running a Phenom II 940 Quad/3.0GHz Black Edition...
And it easily overclocks to 3.6GHz on the stock cooler. I haven't tried it any higher but others have with more elaborate heat sinking and gotten it over 5GHz. All of the Phenom II Quad Black Editions are wide open for overclocking and do it very well especially with the Asus motherboards where it will auto tune the CPU, chipset, memory until it crashes then it backs off the sttings a bit for an optimized overclocked system. Although not to take anything away from Intel and their Core i7 series but the Core i5 series is a joke.
Posted by: Fred Dunn 12 Sep 2009
Congrats AMD!
Does this mean they've finally ironed out all the issues of the Phenom? I know they claimed to before but it was a dirty fix-up. The using of only 3 CPUs in the past rather than all of them seems to me to be a waste of effort & for what reason other than to destroy any hopes AMD had for getting market share back from Intel (not about this issue but previous CPUs made by AMD). Good to see some real competition in the marketplace which means that Intel will have to drop their prices & improve their basic design. Intel lives on their laurels too often when their is no competition. Sure they engineer a new CPU that has more than one processor in it, that doesn't have the brilliiant design that AMD's chips do but then some lucky Intel fellow flukes a better chip & they sail away with it leaving AMD & their mistakes frying in their wake. Lucky Intel...then but perhaps the sands of time may be a-changing. AMD has finally been true to Open-Source & needs to stay that way if they want our support but I wish them every success with their new design. They always had better designers than Intel. Intel will be suffering under the EU & deservedly so. A little of the M$ monopoly litigation payback is coming their way.
Posted by: Rex Alfie Lee 16 Aug 2009