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Product Application:

AMD X4 Quad CPU
Product Provided by: AMD

Available at:

NewEgg.com

Estimated MSRP:

$215.00

Availability:

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Review by:

Paul

Edited by:

Scott

Review date:

Aug 18th, 2008

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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.

  

  

Features

  

AMD Phenom™ X4 Quad-Core Processor

Model Number

Frequency

Total L2 Cache

L3 Cache

Packaging

Thermal Design Power

CMOS Technology

9950

2.6GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

140W

65nm SOI

9850

2.5 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

125W

65nm SOI

9750

2.4 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

125W / 95W

65nm SOI

9650

2.3 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

95W

65nm SOI

9550

2.2 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

95W

65nm SOI

9350e

2.0 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

65W

65nm SOI

9150e

1.8 GHz

2MB

2MB

socket AM2+

65W

65nm SOI

  

Specifications

  

Brand

AMD

Processors Type

Desktop

Series

Phenom X4

Model

9950 Black Edition

CPU Socket Type

Socket AM2+ (940-pin) organic micro PGA

Multi-Core

Quad-Core

Operating Frequency

2.6GHz

Hyper Transports

4000MHz

Hyper-Transport Support

Yes

Virtualization Technology Support

Yes

Multimedia Instruction

MMX, SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4a,3DNOW! Professional

AMD64 Technology

Yes

Simultaneous 32- & 64-bit computing

Yes

L1 Cache (Instruction + Data) per core

128KB (64KB + 64KB)

L2 Cache (512KB per core)

2MB

L3 Cache

2MB

HyperTransport™ Technology

HyperTransport™ technology up to 4000MT/s full duplex, or up to 16.0GB/s I/O Bandwidth

Integrated DDR2 Memory Controller

yes

Memory Controller Width

128-bit

Type of Memory Supported

PC2-8500(DDR2-1066) PC2 6400(DDR2-800), PC2 5300(DDR2-667), PC2 4200(DDR2-533), and PC2 3200(DDR2-400) unbuffered memory

Memory Bandwidth

up to 17.1 GB/s dual channel memory bandwidth

Total Processor-to-system Bandwidth (HyperTransport plus memory bandwidth)

up to 33.1 GB/s

Process Technology

65 nanometer, SOI (silicon-on-insulator) Technology

Voltage

1.05-1.30V

Thermal Design Power

140W, 125W, 95W, 65W

Die Size

65nm: 285mm2

Number of Transistors

65nm: ~450 million

Manufacturing Sites

Fab 36 in Dresden , Germany

  

 




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