this is the phenom2 x4 970 and i will
tell you what is special about it it is a quad core processor at 3.5 gigahertz
with eight megs of cash that makes it AMD's fastest quad core in terms of
sheer frequency ever and we are going to open it up it
uses a true quad core design which is uh what mostly everyone is
using these days and it fits in a standard am3 socket
AMD's really done a phenomenal job actually it fits in an am2 plus socket
too AMD's really done a phenomenal job of
making sure that their customers are getting great backwards and forwards
compatibility out of their new cpus their old motherboards and yeah kudos to
AMD so this chip supports ddr2 as well as ddr3 that is an am3 or an am2 plus
socket it is AMD vision black you can see the branding sticker is
put on there a little bit after the fact so you should combine it with an hd 5000
series graphics card as well as an 800 series chipset to get the best possible
experience according to the AMD vision
marketing campaign that AMD does here is a quick start guide as well as your
warranty information we're not really going to go through that in any great detail so we'll have a look at the chip
itself it comes with a phenom 2 sticker which you can put on your case hey look
at that i haven't seen a sticker like that before look it slides into a little thing
you just pull it out with your thumb and it doesn't go anywhere
no that's kind of different and AMD's actually changed their uh their CPU
clamshell a little bit too it uses a slightly different design now so we'll
have a look at the chip itself there it is phenom 2
you can see all the numbers on the top of the chip so there's uh
940 pins on the bottom there that's an am3 compatible
pin out and we'll have a look at the included thermal solution since this is their
highest clocked quad core this is going to come with a fairly beefy cooler i can
already see it has a copper well fairly beefy for a stock cooler i mean
it's not going to really like compare to that thing but
it'll be reasonably close well no it won't be reasonable never mind
it'll run fine unless you're overclocking in which case you should
probably get something better okay so this is the cooler that debuted with the
original socket 939 dual core opterons i
remember this one and back then it had an 80mm fan which was slightly cooler
and more impressive but it still has uh this looks like a 60 millimeter fan and
it's a slightly deeper one it's not a low profile one so you should get some
pretty good airflow out of it it's got four heat pipes a copper base and
aluminum fins and that's pretty much all there is to say about it like i said if
you're running it stock this is going to run nice and cool nice and quiet for you
but if you are overclocking you're probably going to want to throw something a little bit more impressive
on your brand new black edition CPU oh yes black edition so this is a black
edition chip that means it does come with a fully unlocked multiplier for
as AMD puts it maximum control or
for from my perspective lazy easy overclocking so that means you
can tweak it as much as you possibly can without really knowing anything about
overclocking which is great you just turn up the multiplier turn up the core
voltage and boom you're done now something i want to investigate so
you'll have to stay tuned for a future video is whether or not this quad core
can be unlocked to a six core it depends on what kind of a manufacturing process
AMD's using and i hope to update you in the future don't forget to subscribe to
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