[VRNews]

As we expected, AMD is now releasing a new revision of the Phenom II X4 965, C3. The most notable feature is reduced power consumption, dropping from a seary 140W to 125W. In reality, the previous 965 was right on the boundary of 125W anyway, so the actual drop in load power is reported to be more to the tune of 10W. A thermal improvement is also expected to yield a greater overclocking headroom, though that needs to, and will be, tested soon. In addition, there are a few other tweaks, such as official support for four DDR3 modules at 1333 MHz, and C1E is finally supported in hardware. AMD have struggled with power management, especially the original Phenom series, with slower software power switching costing big chunks of performance. Switching power states through hardware will have "virtually no impact" on performance. More details next page.


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AMD releases revised Phenom II - X4 965 fits to 125W

[riggnix]

sounds pretty good, lets see what the benches say.
also a 975 sounds good, but what i really wanna see is a 3,6 GHz 12 core 'many cores'

[NextGen_Gamer]

It seems like every Web site seems to have missed this, but AMD launched another processor in addition to the 125-Watt version of the Phenom II X4 965 "Black Edition." It's the Phenom II X4 925, essentially a Socket AM3 version of the old Socket AM2+ part, the Phenom II X4 920. It does have a couple of other improvements though: its uncore clockspeed has been increased to 2.00GHz (up from 1.80GHz), its HyperTransport link runs at 4.00GHz (up from 3.60GHz), and its TDP is 95-Watts (the Phenom II X4 920 had a 125-Watt TDP). Most importantly though is its price tag: $145 USD. That makes it the cheapest full-featured "Deneb" part (all four cores enabled, all 6MB L3 cache enabled) available. I can see this part becoming very popular with the overclocking crowd. And yes, it is based on the new "C3" stepping.

[LiM]

Heard some news that c3 955 is quote at x955 instead of z955, x is the normal version without unlock, z is the unlock black edition. Most probably no more black edition for the new c3 x4 955 liao.

[hwmook]

Originally Posted by LiM

Heard some news that c3 955 is quote at x955 instead of z955, x is the normal version without unlock, z is the unlock black edition. Most probably no more black edition for the new c3 x4 955 liao.

Of course, that is almost an unspoken certainty. BE is only reserved for the top model which 955 is no longer thus only 965 will remain as BE.

[LiM]

Originally Posted by hwmook

Of course, that is almost an unspoken certainty. BE is only reserved for the top model which 955 is no longer thus only 965 will remain as BE.

BUT sharing the same number with a black edition model is not good practice IMO.

[riggnix]

Originally Posted by LiM

BUT sharing the same number with a black edition model is not good practice IMO.

i think it's good, because now there is a difference in the naming of these two different processors. the only odd thing is that the 955 BE will be the "worse" one

[watzup_ken]

This is certainly good news for AMD since their processors are consuming more power than Intel's. But I do hope they can push forward their 32nm chips since Intel's "tock" will be coming next year.

[LiM]

Originally Posted by watzup_ken

This is certainly good news for AMD since their processors are consuming more power than Intel's. But I do hope they can push forward their 32nm chips since Intel's "tock" will be coming next year.

No 32nm for AMD until 2011 at least, GF only able to start 32nm at late Q2 next year, so Q1 2011 most probably will be the earliest date you can get a hand on 32nm AMD CPU.