AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition Six Core Processor Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2010-05-08
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834 words · ~4 min read
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so by popular demand today I will be doing an unboxing of AMD's brand new
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Phenom 2 Black Edition processor this is
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the X6 1090t so this is a fenom 2 X6
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processor that means it's just like a fenom 2 X4 processor except with two
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more and that really is it there's six cores in this processor they run at 3.2
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GHz or and this is new AMD has their new
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turbo core technology which allows up to three cores to run at up to 3 point or
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at not up to at 3.6 GHz so if you're running something like a game that only
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takes advantage of of one to three threads of your CPU it means that your
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CPU will actually bump its own clock speed up okay so this is a true six core
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design with nine Megs of total cash it is Socket am3 with a heat sink and fan
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so why don't we get this thing open it includes all of AMD's previous
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Technologies so it's 64-bit it's got cool and quiet it's got their threeyear
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warranty all of that good stuff here's a little bit about AMD vision technology
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so they want you to use an AMD processor with obviously an AMD chipset and ATI
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Ron Graphics to for the best sort of overall platform so let's get this open
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they're using quite small boxes these days it's
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impressive maybe it's uh you know green
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or something okay so why don't we start with the accessories that are included
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first accessory is a heat sink you can see right away this is manufactured by
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ABC obviously to AMD specifications this
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is a heat pipe cooler so it uses a block
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or rather a flat slab of copper at the bottom and then it is soldered to uh
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four heat pipes so you can see two come out of each side it uses their stock
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thermal compound which is applied in a square for you and it has no covering on
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it other than the plastic cover that goes over the whole bottom of it it uses
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a standard sort of fin design with the heat pipes coming up and going through
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the tops of the fins like I said two on each side side and a 60 mm fan at the
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top it uses a 4 pin pwm fan power
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connector and then you've got your standard AMD Clips obviously you'd have
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standard AMD Clips on an AMD processor all right and that is your cooling
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solution next we have you can actually tell right off the bat that these six
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cores are not going to be putting out a whole lot more heat than the old four
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cores because they haven't really stepped up the cooling at all so AMD's
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pulled off an engineering feed here by not shrinking the manufacturing process
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not increasing the amount of of heat produced by the CPU but actually putting
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50% more cores under the hood very cool
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I'm going to show you the processor more after though just to tease okay so here
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we go we have uh AMD's installation
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guide which huh actually still includes
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installation instructions for socket
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754 that is bizarre so it includes 754
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939 and 940 that's that's all the older series then you've got am2 am2 plus and
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am3 as well as socket F or 127 now it's
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funny that they mention am2 am2 plus and am3 here because like many of AMD's
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processors over the last little while AMD has worked really hard on the
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engineering side to make their new six
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core CPUs drop in compatible with older
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am2 plus and am3 Boards very cool stuff
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so the Phenom 2 X6 you can actually drop that into it supports both ddr2 and DDR3
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you can drop it into an am2 Plus or an am3 board that you already have with
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just a BIOS update obviously AMD recommends their new 800 series chipsets
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to get the most out of your Phenom 2x6 but it uses the same am3 socket we're
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familiar with and you can drop it right in so that was pretty much all there is
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to say about it it looks like almost any other CPU at this point diffused in
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Germany and made in Malaysia for this particular guy thank you for checking
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out my unboxing of the AMD Phenom 2
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X6 no I'm not done yet I can't believe I didn't mention this this is a black
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edition processor it's got an unlocked multiplier so I've actually got an
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overclocking guide coming up soon on the AMD fenom 2 X6 and so you can you can
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check that out very shortly so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the X6
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