Recruit The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940 CPU Board.

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AMD's novel baby is the Phenom II X4 line-up of desktop CPUs. Similar the original Phenoms that arrived earlier it, the novel Phenom II X4 CPUs characteristic a native quad-core pattern, with a shared L3 cache, and they fit into current AM2+ sockets. There are rather a elite alters below the hood, still, that afford Phenom II CPUs a substantial edge is power efficiency and functioning over their predecessors, and there are more alters to arrive in the not too distant next.

Also novel to the Phenom II X4 series is a DDR2 and DDR3 simpatico incorporated storage controller. The 1st batch of Phenom II CPUs, like the 1s we're appearing at today, still, will just work with DDR2 storage. Eventually, the novel Phenom II X4 CPUs will be extended at higher frequencies than being examples. The Phenom II X4 920 and 940 we'll be demonstrating you here are clocked at 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz, severally. The 940 also occurs to be a "Black version" CPU, that ships with unlocked multipliers, for softer overclocking.




Talking of overclocking, AMD has been touting the frequency headroom in these novel CPUs from rather approximately time. In fact, at a recent event, we saw 1 overclocked to over 5GHz--a vast advance over the 65nm Phenoms.We didn't rather acquire our sample to go that high, but even hit approximately good numbers. More on that on the following page.As we've already remarked, the 1st 2 Phenom II X4 CPUs to be inserted will utilize the same AM2+ packaging as living Phenom CPUs.

That means these novel chips will be simpatico with living DDR2 platforms, after a BIOS modify of course. next Phenom II CPUs will employ AMD's socket AM3, which will usher in support for DDR3 memory.We should note, that next AM3-grounded Phenom II X4 CPUs will be backwards simpatico with AM2 and AM2+ programs, and exploit with DDR2 or DDR3 storage types.