so by popular demand today I will be doing an unboxing of AMD's brand new
Phenom 2 Black Edition processor this is
the X6 1090t so this is a fenom 2 X6
processor that means it's just like a fenom 2 X4 processor except with two
more and that really is it there's six cores in this processor they run at 3.2
GHz or and this is new AMD has their new
turbo core technology which allows up to three cores to run at up to 3 point or
at not up to at 3.6 GHz so if you're running something like a game that only
takes advantage of of one to three threads of your CPU it means that your
CPU will actually bump its own clock speed up okay so this is a true six core
design with nine Megs of total cash it is Socket am3 with a heat sink and fan
so why don't we get this thing open it includes all of AMD's previous
Technologies so it's 64-bit it's got cool and quiet it's got their threeyear
warranty all of that good stuff here's a little bit about AMD vision technology
so they want you to use an AMD processor with obviously an AMD chipset and ATI
Ron Graphics to for the best sort of overall platform so let's get this open
they're using quite small boxes these days it's
impressive maybe it's uh you know green
or something okay so why don't we start with the accessories that are included
first accessory is a heat sink you can see right away this is manufactured by
ABC obviously to AMD specifications this
is a heat pipe cooler so it uses a block
or rather a flat slab of copper at the bottom and then it is soldered to uh
four heat pipes so you can see two come out of each side it uses their stock
thermal compound which is applied in a square for you and it has no covering on
it other than the plastic cover that goes over the whole bottom of it it uses
a standard sort of fin design with the heat pipes coming up and going through
the tops of the fins like I said two on each side side and a 60 mm fan at the
top it uses a 4 pin pwm fan power
connector and then you've got your standard AMD Clips obviously you'd have
standard AMD Clips on an AMD processor all right and that is your cooling
solution next we have you can actually tell right off the bat that these six
cores are not going to be putting out a whole lot more heat than the old four
cores because they haven't really stepped up the cooling at all so AMD's
pulled off an engineering feed here by not shrinking the manufacturing process
not increasing the amount of of heat produced by the CPU but actually putting
50% more cores under the hood very cool
I'm going to show you the processor more after though just to tease okay so here
we go we have uh AMD's installation
guide which huh actually still includes
installation instructions for socket
754 that is bizarre so it includes 754
939 and 940 that's that's all the older series then you've got am2 am2 plus and
am3 as well as socket F or 127 now it's
funny that they mention am2 am2 plus and am3 here because like many of AMD's
processors over the last little while AMD has worked really hard on the
engineering side to make their new six
core CPUs drop in compatible with older
am2 plus and am3 Boards very cool stuff
so the Phenom 2 X6 you can actually drop that into it supports both ddr2 and DDR3
you can drop it into an am2 Plus or an am3 board that you already have with
just a BIOS update obviously AMD recommends their new 800 series chipsets
to get the most out of your Phenom 2x6 but it uses the same am3 socket we're
familiar with and you can drop it right in so that was pretty much all there is
to say about it it looks like almost any other CPU at this point diffused in
Germany and made in Malaysia for this particular guy thank you for checking
out my unboxing of the AMD Phenom 2
X6 no I'm not done yet I can't believe I didn't mention this this is a black
edition processor it's got an unlocked multiplier so I've actually got an
overclocking guide coming up soon on the AMD fenom 2 X6 and so you can you can
check that out very shortly so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the X6
1090t