AMD Phenom II X4 T Series Detailed

[cdawall]

I'm going to try and snag one on release day and I would love to try it with my ch2 and ch3 who knows it may run ddr2 unofficially

 

[devguy]

These will probably ship with 3mb out of 9mb L3 cache disabled. So, even if one purchases a Zosma with two truly defective cores, perhaps one can still reenable the remaining L3 like on the Phenom II 8xx series? That would likely make it perform faster than a Deneb.

As for a DDR2 controller on Thuban, ASUS have basically confirmed this by adding a new BIOS for an AM2+ board, giving it Thuban support: http://event.asus.com/mb/2010/m4_6cores/ - M4A78E-SE is DDR2 only.

 

[btarunr]

These will probably ship with 3mb out of 9mb L3 cache disabled. So, even if one purchases a Zosma with two truly defective cores, perhaps one can still reenable the remaining L3 like on the Phenom II 8xx series?

That would likely make it perform faster than a Deneb.

How so? 4 x 512 KB + 6 MB = 8 MB. L3 cache is 6 MB on Thuban. "9 MB total cache" for Phenom II X6 is 6 x 512 KB + 6 MB L3.

 

[suraswami]

I'm going to try and snag one on release day and I would love to try it with my ch2 and ch3 who knows it may run ddr2 unofficially

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=3266&ver=

So DDR2 is supported, if that is what you meant.

 

[devguy]

How so? 4 x 512 KB + 6 MB = 8 MB. L3 cache is 6 MB on Thuban. "9 MB total cache" for Phenom II X6 is 6 x 512 KB + 6 MB L3.

Oh, my mistake. I thought the Phenom II x6 had 9mb L3 (not 9mb total). Good catch!

 

[ASharp]

http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/Motherboard/CPUSupport_Model.aspx?ProductID=3266&ver=

So DDR2 is supported, if that is what you meant.

Yeah, hopefully Gigabyte will push the BIOS updates out for the rest of the DDR2 boards. Would love to drop a X6 in mine without having to change up my entire system.

 

[OneCool]

I wonder if those clock speeds are with turbo or without?

3.30ghz sounds like a "Turbo" mode to me.


Wish I had the extra cash for a nice desktop.That 6 core AMD would be mine

 

[cdawall]

I wonder if those clock speeds are with turbo or without?

3.30ghz sounds like a "Turbo" mode to me.


Wish I had the extra cash for a nice desktop.That 6 core AMD would be mine

The 965 is stock with a 3.4ghz clockspeed 3.3ghz is standard

 

[Zubasa]

is it me or intel and amd copy themselves each tecnology.

Eg: Hypertransport >>>> QPI
On die memory controller >>>>> Intel same
Intel's turbo >>>>>> AMD's turbo
True quad core arquitecture (amd) >>>>>> True quad core arquitecture (Intel i7 and later)

what will be in the next few years? Intel's fusion? :shadedshu

The fact that AMD and Intel have a cross-license agreement with each other?
Remeber that Intel invented and owns the x86 architecture and AMD came up with the x86-64 extensions.

 

[EarlZ]

Performance wise, would the X6 be able to beat the i7 ?

 

[Zubasa]

Performance wise, would the X6 be able to beat the i7 ?

With that pricing, at lease AMD would expect them to compete with the 1156 i7s.

 

[kenkickr]

If I can get this ladies damn tag printer to work with the new system I built them I'll have the extra cash for a x6. Looks so yummy on my Crosshair's tummy

 

[H82LUZ73]

I think he means in certain instances unlocking will not work...has nothing to do with your chassis.

Yep has to do with something like the AsRock boards Which was from a week ago

http://forums.techpowerup.com/showthread.php?t=117350

 

[nt300]

Yeah, hopefully Gigabyte will push the BIOS updates out for the rest of the DDR2 boards. Would love to drop a X6 in mine without having to change up my entire system.

They have no choice AMD will pressure them to update the bios for us.

Performance wise, would the X6 be able to beat the i7 ?

Very much so, looks to me AMD will be better at price/performance than Intel. $299 for a 6-core hell ay.
Hope this helps to drive Intel prices down also.

 

[F430]

soo its will work on the AM2+?!?!?!?

 

[cdawall]

They have no choice AMD will pressure them to update the bios for us.

No they won't they didn't pressure anyone to update the bios on am2 to support gen 1 phenoms they didn't pressure them to update servers to support phenom or phenom ii they pressured you to buy a new board.

 

[pjladyfox]

Will be interesting to see how the 960T stacks up against the current 965 and how much the "Turbo Core" feature improves overall performance. Anyone know what the TDP on these is supposed to be as of yet?

I'm also hoping that either AMD implements support for the AMD Overdrive tool in the 8-series chipsets otherwise when these and the X6's drop I'm going to have to look for a 790X AM3 board to socket these into. Which does remind me, has anyone also heard any info as to if the Overdrive tool will ever be supported on the newer 8-series chipsets?

and yes...no AM2+ support. it's dead already. no future support for 'em. but as always..you can put AM3 processors on an AM2+ mobo.not sure with thuban though

Um, that's interesting since Gigabyte is already listing BIOS support for the X6 processors on some of there AM2+ motherboards:

http://forums.hexus.net/hexus-hardware/182814-phenom-ii-x6-will-work-am2-motherboards.html

Do you have a source for your info that refutes this?