Friday, April 16th 2010
Phenom II X4 960T ''Zosma'' Unlock to Phenom II X6
AMD's upcoming series of Phenom II X4 900T series that supports AMD Turbo Core technology, and which are based on the "Zosma" die, have been confirmed to be able to unlock both its manufacturer-disabled cores to work as a six-core processor. Zosma is a "cut-down" version of AMD's Thuban six-core die, where two of its cores are disabled. With the remaining four cores, two can function with increased clock-speeds in boost-state as Turbo cores (3/6 could on the X6 chip).
The core unlocking is said to have been done on an AMD 890GX chipset based motherboard, in the same way disabled cores on Phenom II X3 and X2 chips are unlocked. One of the first models based on Zosma are the Phenom II X4 960T and X4 940T, which operate at 3.30 GHz and 3.00 GHz, respectively. Their Turbo Core speeds are up to 500 MHz over clock speeds, depending on the model. The X4 T-series could form AMD's mainstream processor in the sub-$200 range.
Source:
OCWorkbench
The core unlocking is said to have been done on an AMD 890GX chipset based motherboard, in the same way disabled cores on Phenom II X3 and X2 chips are unlocked. One of the first models based on Zosma are the Phenom II X4 960T and X4 940T, which operate at 3.30 GHz and 3.00 GHz, respectively. Their Turbo Core speeds are up to 500 MHz over clock speeds, depending on the model. The X4 T-series could form AMD's mainstream processor in the sub-$200 range.
120 Comments on Phenom II X4 960T ''Zosma'' Unlock to Phenom II X6
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Submitted by casemods | Sun, 05 Sep 2010 03:00:30 +0200 | Rejected by CPU-Z 1.55"
So it was rejected?
kinda weird tho that yours has Rated FSB and it should say HT link instead on the bottom left
I'll take a pic of the CPU when I do that...but I'll leave it in so I can do the cpu-z thing
also my friend on steam was telling me that my bios should have a setting for enabling the 4 cores, but in the CPU list on this board, this cpu is not listed. only 2 thuban x6's...any ideas?
right now it's only running 1 core as you can see
it might also be that your bios just dosent support the CPU period if so thats why its running as it is
/g/ said it's an engineering sample.
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Also, any idea what I could sell this thing for
I was just trying to get a decent quad core for GTAIV
Like I said in my previous post, we cannot discuss selling them here.
:eek:
If you are an AMD employee or agent that has this cpu legitimately, then it's all good.
He said he got a lot of CPU's from him and they all have worked.
So maybe his friend just gets a bunch of free cpu's?
Is it illegal to give them away?
I doubt he would jeopardize his job at AMD...but I have no idea...
Maybe he didn't know it was an engineering sample because his friend just gave it to him...that sounds pretty reasonable...
ES cpus are given out on loan for testing purposes. Sometimes they end up in big OEM boxes though(I have quite a few ES intel cpus pulled from Dell boxes), however, there aren't really any 960T machines on the market, at least that I am aware of.
EDIT: however, if these cpus are launched, or about to launch, he may have been "given" the cpu permanently, but sale is still illegal. CPU does exist, and is real, obviously. But now you must understand the reaction Crazyeye had.
and since they havent been released publicly you can probably understand the *troll post* come on erocker i know damn well your a mod but if you had randomly stumbled across this first you would have had the same thoughts i did just your a mod so you cant step out line as often as us regular ppl who just get infractions *points at mailman*
Good news on the zozma chips if they get released, shame I can't do anything with this info : [
He was framed I tell you... He was framed :D