AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Six Core Processor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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790 words · ~3 min read
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today we're going to be doing a quick unboxing of the Phenom 2 X6 1100t so
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this is a multi-core processor as you may or may not have figured out by now
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it is also a Phenom 2 as you may or may not have figured out by now this is a
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black edition processor which means that you have full control over the CPU
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multiplier now that's actually uh it
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even means a little bit it means something a little bit
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different than it even used to because it used to be
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the Black Edition meant you had one multiplier to uh either turn up or turn
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down according to your will so it meant okay well you don't have to fuss around
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with uh with adjusting the the uh the ratio
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of the actual bus speed itself you can just turn up the multi there's your
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overclock turn up the voltage you're done well now with the turbo processor
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so that is all of the six cores from AMD right now that have a t at the end of
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the part number have a feature that allows them to scale up the frequency
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when you're running three cores or less
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so this processor although it says 3.3 GHz and that's your stock multiplier
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also runs at 3.7 GHz when you're running
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with three active processing threads or less so you can not only adjust the
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stock multiplier but you can also adjust
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the turbo multiplier so you can make it so okay let's say you've decided you
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know oh I want you know what I'm going to leave my stock speed when I'm running
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like heavily multi-threaded stuff at 3.3 GHz so that I don't get more power
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consumption or so whatever your reasoning is but I'm going to turn my
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Turbo up to 4 GHz so that when I'm running games for example which only use
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a few processor course I can really get the most out of my CPU so that's a cool
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feature all right here is the processor itself this is an am3 processor which
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means it fits in an am3 socket as well as an am2 plus socket and it is fully
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compatible with DDR3 as well as ddr2 to memory so AMD is the only processor
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mainstream processor company these days that is actually still producing chips
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that are compatible with ddr2 on the
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highend this is a six core processor that you can actually plunk into your
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old ddr2 board with your ddr2 RAM as long as your board supports it we also
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get a case badge sticker we get a little uh warranty certificate of authenticity
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installation guide thing it folds out to about the size of like a wall poster so
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I'm not going to open it right now and then we also have an included stock heat
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SN so their stock heat sink hasn't changed much since the days of socket
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939 we've got what appears to be a 60 mm
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fan it is manufactured by AVC it uses a
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four pin pwm fan header and here's a little tip for you guys if you want it
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to look tidier in your case twist it up
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like this that way instead of being like a
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total mess when you plug it into your uh into your fan header and like looking
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like this you can actually have it just all sort of come together like that and then you
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can plug it in somewhere and then kind of twist it up like that so it's sort of
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more uniform anyway it has four heat pipes two of them go one way two of them
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go the other way you've got a pre-applied thermal pad and the thermal
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pad that comes on stock uh heat sinks from actually both major CPU companies
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these days are pretty darn good so you don't really need to replace it unless
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you really want to and your standard AMD
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mounting mechanism thank you for checking out my unboxing of the Phenom
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2x6 1100t also don't forget to check out
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my build guide featuring this processor in AMD's best of the best machine which
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happens to be sitting over in that room right now you can sort of see it anyway
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check it out on my ncixcom channnel as
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well as my uh my vision system overview where I show some benchmarks from this
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particular processor against its competition don't forget to subscribe to
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lus Tech tips and thank you for watching