Aimed at gamers and overclockers, Advanced Micro Devices has released their new AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition quad-core processor with Clock Multiplier Control and AMD OverDrive, the industry’s most powerful Windows-based performance tuning utility, for tunable performance. The processor will operate at a 2.3GHz frequency, 2MB shared L3 cache and 512KB dedicated L2 cache per core and 128KB L1 cache per core. Using 65-nanometer silicon-on-insulator technology, the CPU will be identical to its non-Black Edition counterpart (integrated DDR2 memory controller and so on) except for the unlocked clock multiplier, which allows enthusiasts to easily clock the new chip. AMD notes the processor is priced the same as the recently launched AMD Phenom™ 9600 quad-core pocessor, or $283 in 1000 unit quantities.


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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Compu2 on 19 Dec 2007 - 23:28
Sounds good, Black edition CPUs run for a good price!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Croquant on 19 Dec 2007 - 23:40
The ™ in "Phenom™" isn't showing up in the name or in the RSS feed, just the
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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #3 Posted by ir0nw0lf on 19 Dec 2007 - 23:44
Do these still suffer from the TLB bug or did they fix it in the BE's?
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #4 Posted by Thrawn on 20 Dec 2007 - 01:08
http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2226939,00.asp

http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1697,2226946,00.asp

Humn, it looks like this part just can't keep up with a Q6600 at stock speeds, but it might catch up if you OC it. But then, you could OC your Q6600. Meh...
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #5 Posted by toadeater on 20 Dec 2007 - 01:08
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AMD notes the processor is priced the same as the recently launched AMD Phenom™ 9600 quad-core pocessor, or $283 in 1000 unit quantities.


If AMD expects to sell these, they need to set a realistic price.
Quote this comment #5.1 Posted by RAID 0 on 20 Dec 2007 - 01:52
That's for sure. Somewhere around the 200 USD mark. They'd sell like hotcakes!
Quote this comment Reply to this comment #6 Posted by shakey on 20 Dec 2007 - 03:01
i keep hoping AMD will surprise me and bring me back, but the results from all the test just keep telling me to go intel.
(2 replies) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #7 Posted by InsaneNutter on 20 Dec 2007 - 08:44
Which would be better? this or my Core2Duo E4500 overclocked to 3.0ghz?
Quote this comment #7.1 Posted by Sheppard on 20 Dec 2007 - 09:59
Well considering the Phenom is a quad core cpu the Phenom
Quote this comment #7.2 Posted by dhitb on 20 Dec 2007 - 23:13
In non-SMP software, the latter will thrash the Phenom (especially if it's a B2 with the TLB fix enabled). If you game a lot, the dually is fine. If you need quad, just drop a Q6600 in your E4500's place.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #8 Posted by TRC on 20 Dec 2007 - 21:46
Phenom would be a great name...if you were a teen girl and this was the 1980s.
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