Tuesday, June 30th 2009
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Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42 Unveiled
NDA has been lifted off AMD's newest processor for serious overclocking, the Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42. While this processor isn't meant to be an out of the box high-speed performer, it caters specifically to those who know (TWK) the inside outs of overclocking. Hence, it comes with a speed of 2.00 GHz, but with an unlocked multiplier, high-leakage silicon, and a significantly higher overclocking headroom compared to other consumer-grade chips AMD offers. Currently AMD has only 100 of these ready to sell.
Legit Reviews is one of the first sites to review this chip, and adds an interesting list of myth busters to go with it. The chip is based on a cherry-picked high quality yield of Deneb C2 core. It comes with a vCore value of 1.44 V out of the box, and lets the overclocker decide which bus-multiplier, frequency, and voltage value to use. It comes in an exclusive jewel-case from AMD. Using air-cooling by an XIGMATEK HDT-S1283, the reviewer was able to reach 4.00 GHz on the air and more than 5.90 GHz using liquid-nitrogen cooling.
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Legit Reviews
Legit Reviews is one of the first sites to review this chip, and adds an interesting list of myth busters to go with it. The chip is based on a cherry-picked high quality yield of Deneb C2 core. It comes with a vCore value of 1.44 V out of the box, and lets the overclocker decide which bus-multiplier, frequency, and voltage value to use. It comes in an exclusive jewel-case from AMD. Using air-cooling by an XIGMATEK HDT-S1283, the reviewer was able to reach 4.00 GHz on the air and more than 5.90 GHz using liquid-nitrogen cooling.
88 Comments on Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42 Unveiled
Really strange it comes at 2ghz with 1.44v and doesn't really seem the OC results are beyond the 955 OCing or even 940. Hopefully future reviews net more, wonder what the price will be on this, I'm thinking it might not be too bad since they clocked it at 2ghz.
maybe i will be going back to amd :rolleyes:
also the reviewer peaked with this clock
not really all that special
chew* did that on a retail cpu
and god bless
look on the left in the dimm slots thats ice look on the right thats ice on the caps all the insulated was the cpu and they did LN2? i mean really
Its a clear Pot
Me want!
maybe they put the voltage to 1.44 so the Oc'ers don't do it :laugh: :ohwell:
however 2ghz was chosen because of the way its sits 10x multi is DID0 and FID0
I want to see what one will do in your hands...
Unless I'm getting the wrong impression, I can't think of any where in the cpu you want leakage???
^^
Can you explain or point to what you mean by leakage?
I'm completely at a loss in what is good spec for OC'ing the latest AMD cores.