Hot on the heels of reducing pricing on a range of
Phenom
II and Athlon II chips a couple
of weeks' ago, AMD yesterday rolled in a new CPU into its
high-end consumer line-up.
As the fastest consumer chip sold by the firm, the Phenom II X4 965
Black Edition, launched in August 2009, can now be purchased for around
£140,
including VAT. Look a little further into the details and you'll notice
that the chip operates with a toasty TDP of
140W.
The new chip is also the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition, but differs
from its namesake by being based on the latest C3 silicon revision that
reduces the TDP to 125W. This is in keeping with the rest of the
high-speed Phenom II X4 range, thus bringing a greater number of
supporting motherboards into the frame.
The guts of the AM3-supporting processor stay the same, of course, meaning that it
operates at 3.4GHz, backed
up by 2MB of L2 cache and a 6MB pool of shared L3 cache.
Apart from the headline-grabbing reduction in TDP, the new revision
also brings other benefits such as support for four DIMMs running at
1,333MHz and better power-state regulation.
We expect etailers to phase out the C2-revision model in favour of this
one, and should the price stay the same, the 'new' 965 BE's overall
proposition becomes a touch healthier.
Intel's Core i5 750 is the obvious competitor to the revamped AMD chip.
Is a reduction in TDP and a bunch of minor improvements enough to tip
you in AMD's direction? Let us know in the HEXUS.community forums.
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... the new revision also brings other benefits such as support for four DIMMs running at 1,333MHz ...
About flippin' time too! ;)Quote
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