Wednesday, December 19th 2007
AMD launches Phenom 9600 Black Edition
As expected, AMD has announced the Phenom 9600 Black Edition. The quad-core processor runs at 2.3 GHz, sports 2 MB L3 cache and 512 KB L2 cahce per core. Just like the previous Black Editions, it comes with an unlocked multiplier and Black Edition also means handpicked cores, but since this can't be a B3 stepping it still suffers from the TLB bug. Together with the recommendation from AMD to force the crippling BIOS fix, the Phenom 9600 Black Edition looks anything but lusterous, which is a real shame because the previous Black Editions have been bright rays of light shining through the otherwise dull and gray clouds over AMD's headquarters.
Source:
Nordic Hardware
13 Comments on AMD launches Phenom 9600 Black Edition
i really don't understand how a company can continue to push out a defective product and expect ppl to buy it
AMD, surprise me with a OC-able X4 9700 BE for 275 US$ and I´ll consider it. ;)
We still get a Quad for under $200 here in US, which is a pretty good price. I would defenitely buy that.
de·fec·tive
–adjective
1. having a defect or flaw; faulty; imperfect: a defective machine.
2. Psychology. characterized by subnormal intelligence or behavior.
3. Grammar. (of an inflected word or its inflection) lacking one or more of the inflected forms proper to most words of the same class in the language, as English must, which occurs only in the present tense.
anyway i think its about time,but the onlyway they are going to do well is if they were to release good overclocking chips in general,because why would some1 buy a amd chip when a intel normal chip overclocks better!!