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I have always been a fan of AMD. In
fact it
was on an AMD that I popped my overclocking cherry. Looking back
over the years, it's always great to see the die hard fans of Intel and
AMD duke it out over CPU supremacy. However, for the last couple of years
Intel has had the speed crown thanks to the C2D and C2Q.
Nevertheless, AMD
had held the speed crown for several years before that and I don't think
they were happy losing it. AMD is not going to settle for second
best in a two man race. The 9950 Black Edition is their new
flagship and we're going to take it for a test drive to see what's it's
made of.
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AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core
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Total L2 Cache
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Packaging
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Thermal Design Power
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CMOS Technology
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Specifications
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Brand
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AMD
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Processors Type
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Desktop
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Series
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Phenom X4
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Model
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9950 Black Edition
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CPU Socket Type
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Socket AM2+ (940-pin)
organic micro PGA
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Multi-Core
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Quad-Core
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Operating Frequency
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2.6GHz
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Hyper Transports
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4000MHz
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Hyper-Transport Support
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Yes
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Virtualization Technology Support
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Yes
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Multimedia Instruction
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MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a,3DNOW!
Professional
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Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing
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L1 Cache (Instruction + Data) per core
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L2 Cache (512KB per core)
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HyperTransport™ Technology
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HyperTransport™ technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex,
or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth
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Integrated DDR2 Memory Controller
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PC2-8500(DDR2-1066) PC2 6400(DDR2-800), PC2
5300(DDR2-667), PC2 4200(DDR2-533), and PC2
3200(DDR2-400) unbuffered memory
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up to 17.1 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth
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Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus
memory bandwidth)
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65 nanometer, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) Technology
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Voltage
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1.05-1.30V
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Fab 36 in Dresden , Germany
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