"Athlon X2 5000" Anyone seen this Proc before?

[Zubasa]

Looks to be some kind of K10. The guy said he got it for around $400 HK thats $50 US.
Its 45nm I guess is some revision of the Denub

http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/c.../SNC12124A.jpg

Unlocked to 4 cores.


Its from a local fourm:
http://computer.discuss.com.hk/viewt...extra=page%3D1

[erocker]

No! 1.080v with four cores at just over 2.8ghz is amazing!

[Zubasa]

Originally Posted by erocker

No! 1.080v with four cores at just over 2.8ghz is amazing!

What can this be? Some new K10?
Or some kind of revision.

[angelkiller]

Kuma/Agena are 65nm Phenom I based. I doubt AMD is using those cores anymore.

I think it's more likely these are cut back Phenom II parts until AMD transitions to their monolitic dualies. (ie get rid of failed Phenom II parts then introduce a new core)

[Zubasa]

Well, I guess I might rush out to buy th first batch that unlocks.
$50 Quad will make me crap my pants

[Polarman]

I say Photoshoped trickery.

[Zubasa]

Originally Posted by Polarman

I say Photoshoped trickery.

Not exactly sure about this.
At lease the package is real, a local store actually is selling these chips, and they are rated as low TDP parts.

[Reefer86]

why do you keep editing pics to hide the........... gfx card i guess?

[Zubasa]

Originally Posted by Reefer86

why do you keep editing pics to hide the........... gfx card i guess?

These pics are not mine, so I don't know.
The card seems to be a HD 5770 or something.

[MohawkAngel]

Originally Posted by Zubasa

These pics are not mine, so I don't know.
The card seems to be a HD 5770 or something.

You know you pass way too much time jerking off on computer websites when you can recognize a video card by a small part of a rainbow in the corner of the box !!

[enaher]

I actually noticed that 5000+ as a 45nm Dual Core, seemed like a typo at the time really interesting, why would they use the 5000+ again on a new core

[Zubasa]

Only that it is not a 5000+ its a X2 5000.

[MohawkAngel]

Its a 939 socket its ans old model of athlon x2 if we base on that but on the box its different...strange

[unibrow1990]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=athlon%205000


It's a 5000+ with some photoshopped screenshots making it look like something new.

EDIT: The box in the picture even shows "1 MB total cache" while the screenshots show 6 MB like a deneb.

[A Cheese Danish]

Originally Posted by Zubasa

These pics are not mine, so I don't know.
The card seems to be a HD 5770 or something.

The graphics is an HD5870. It is sitting at idle, which makes the clocks rather low.
But 2.8GHz at 1.08V is pretty nice for a "quad"

[enaher]

Originally Posted by MohawkAngel

Its a 939 socket its ans old model of athlon x2 if we base on that but on the box its different...strange

It's not the old 939, if I recall correctly modern am3 has also 939 pins, Newegg list this proc as Athlon x2 5000+ 2.2Ghz 1mb cache 45nm Dual Core, as I said before though it was nothing more than a typo but the OP has shown images of it Unlocked to a Quad with 6mb L3 cache so it might be a Deneb core, still rather curious the purpose of the naming and if the core derives from deneb.

[KieranD]

yeah well it looks like a nice voltage but the lack of cache kinda ruines it, depends on what your using it for

i thought at first it was one of those X2 5000+ i used to have that were popular back for AM2

how can a 1mb cache cpu unlock to 6mb?

[enaher]

Originally Posted by KieranD

yeah well it looks like a nice voltage but the lack of cache kinda ruines it, depends on what your using it for

i thought at first it was one of those X2 5000+ i used to have that were popular back for AM2

how can a 1mb cache cpu unlock to 6mb?

It's 512 kb per core and 6 of L3 cache as off lately not strange in amd land Athlon II X4 has 512 per core and some can unlock to a full deneb with 6mb of L3

[newtekie1]

It is a new processor for sure, based of Deneb.

I believe they went with Athlon X2 5000 name because this is an AM2+ processor, meaning the DDR3 memory controller has been disabled. The Athlon II processors are AM3 with the DDR3 memory controller enabled.

[unibrow1990]

Why would they make it am2+ when am3 is backward compatible, it would make no sense.

[newtekie1]

Originally Posted by unibrow1990

Why would they make it am2+ when am3 is backward compatible, it would make no sense.

Same reason they did it with the Phenom II x4 940, because the DDR3 memory controller is defective. So they disable it, and call it an AM2+ processor, since the only reason for AM3 is DDR3. No DDR3 memory controller means, no AM3 support, so it would have to be an AM2+ processor.

[KieranD]

im looking at the box and it says 1.0mb total cache so wtf is going on

[Zubasa]

Originally Posted by unibrow1990

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...=athlon%205000


It's a 5000+ with some photoshopped screenshots making it look like something new.

EDIT: The box in the picture even shows "1 MB total cache" while the screenshots show 6 MB like a deneb.

Funny enough, that newegg page you posted kind of proves that his chip exists.
It even says "Manufacturing Tech 45nm", find me a 45nm K8 then we are talking.

[KieranD]

wait would 1mb cache be 512bm each for the cores, 2 cores means 1mb

but what about the 6mb L3 where did that come from?

[erocker]

Low TDP chips are supposed to be here right about at this time, so yes. I mean YES! If I can get a 1.1v PII 955, I will get one.