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Phenom II X4 960T ''Zosma'' Unlock to Phenom II X6
AMD's upcoming series of Phenom II X4 900T series that supports AMD Turbo Core technology, and which are based on the "Zosma" die, have been confirmed to be able to unlock both its manufacturer-disabled cores to work as a six-core processor. Zosma is a "cut-down" version of AMD's Thuban six-core die, where two of its cores are disabled. With the remaining four cores, two can function with increased clock-speeds in boost-state as Turbo cores (3/6 could on the X6 chip).
The core unlocking is said to have been done on an AMD 890GX chipset based motherboard, in the same way disabled cores on Phenom II X3 and X2 chips are unlocked. One of the first models based on Zosma are the Phenom II X4 960T and X4 940T, which operate at 3.30 GHz and 3.00 GHz, respectively. Their Turbo Core speeds are up to 500 MHz over clock speeds, depending on the model. The X4 T-series could form AMD's mainstream processor in the sub-$200 range. Source: OCWorkbench |
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Many Thanks to cdawall for sending this in.
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Hehe of course I found this
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O snap!! MOAR Cores !! I really think AMD has a winner on thier hands in these X4's. If unlocking ratio is good, these X4 will sell like hotcakes..
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960T the new 550BE
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Wow man. From 2 cores to 4 cores was good but with 6 cores, my e-penis will be 6 feet longer anymore. w00t
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Any information on exactly which AMD 8 series boards were used in the source?
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The asus and asrock have core unlocking from what has been said so far but others may have it...
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Release date?
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3.3Ghz with a 500Mhz clock increase? triple core 3.8Ghz from the factory......
Sounds like a very overclockable chip..... I need one. Not that i do anything really that my CPU can't handle, but I just need it.
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That's my next CPU.
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Any chance of unlocking on a 785G?
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i'd say definitely yes.
i'm gunna buy one, see if it unlocks, and if not... well, its gunna work nicely in my media PC until i go AMD on my main
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Wonderful ,,
Keep it up AMD
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I wonder if its able to turbo if it unlock, just wondering as even if it won't it's still a very nice "feature".
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Also the prices are great, you can do a great system with almost no money compared to intel. I recently purchased a new amd system and I'm very impressed.
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Like, i'm sure many of these 'quads' are the ones that work fine as 6 core chips, just that they cant clock up right in turbo.. so hey, turn the FSB down a few MHz and it might go stable.
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Why was I not surprised? You seem to have all these wonderful chips that can unlock & clock to 4GHz, which is not an easy feat for an AM3 C2 chip.
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So these Thuban-based chips do have DDR2 memory controllers, right?
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I believe the answer is 'Yes'.
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Awesomeness!
I see what might be a new b-day upgrade for my rig
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According to Gigabyte this AM2+ board (which I recently bought) with bios update support X6 procs
http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Support/M...ctID=3193&ver= But the god damn gigabyte is not releasing a bios update for my main board. If they do not release I am going kick that board out and buy an Asus/MSI 890 + DDR3
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I have a lot of fun chips and all c1 and c2 chips can do 4ghz it depends on the person clocking them
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I do not beleive the 960T will hit 3.8 on turbo, just 3.6. The 940T should hit 3.5ghz.
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