AMD Phenom II 965 Black Edition Quad Core Processor Unboxing Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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so today on my Linus Tech tips unboxing we will be unboxing the AMD Phenom 2 X4
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965 so this is a 3.4 GHz processor this
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is AMD's fastest clocked processor ever
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and we are going to get started right away pull to open just like that wow
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how's that for an unboxing experience so we're going to dump this thing oh cool
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you can actually see the CPU through a little window here I hadn't actually
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noticed that before so you can see you're stepping this is a CAC y c or
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0932 CPM W if anyone cared to know about
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that sort of thing some people think that from knowing the stepping you can
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determine how well the chip will overclock and there goes my phone I
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already told it I'm busy you got to be kidding me
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no okay so inside we will find a CPU
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heat sink or first we'll find a certificate of authenticity so here's
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your serial number which you will need if you have to do any sort of warranty
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claim through AMD and this is an enor
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ormous document holy smoke so in here
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you will find a Phenom 2 sticker okay
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and then you will also find this thing which is in a million in one languages
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and is about the size of a wall poster
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okay and it tells you how to install
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your CPU how to identify your socket
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going all the way back to socket 754 that's awesome and uh read this
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first a bunch of rules okay so that's not all that interesting let's get to
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the heat sink so for the heat sink on their highest end Black Edition
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processor you will find kind of a Wimpy looking 60 mil fan but then actually a
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fairly beefy four heat pipe cooler with
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a pre applied thermal fan uh thermal fan
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thermal pad so let's have a look at some different angles here this is a four pin
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pwm fan so that means that it can be adjusted using pwm technology so that's
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pretty cool you could no you could probably Swap this out for something else if you wanted using the little
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Clips here just pull those back and take it off that's pretty good okay so then
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let's get to the CPU itself so here's how you get that out I guess okay you
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poke in through this side and then you push the CPU and out it comes so there
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we have it that is the Phenom 2x4
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965 so let's just take it out so here on the bottom you can see there are 940
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pins so that's an am3 socket all am3
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CPUs are compatible with ddr2 or DDR3
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board so you can put them in an am2 Plus or an am3 board thank you for checking
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out my video blog on the Phenom 2x4 965