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Originally Posted by y eye
Welcome to SA Chris. Lots of rumors about this CPU. Can you fill us in with correct information? One source is calling it a Phenom II X42.
Thanks for posting-up .
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Thanks for the welcome!
Here's a few things:
1) We were all unaware of the 42 marking when we got them. I don't know right now what that means, but I'll find out. I immediately thought of Hitch hiker's Guide to the Galaxy...personally I wouldn't read anything into the 42 marking.
2) It is indeed a Phenom II X4 part - it's a high current part that, you are correct, will take some TLC to get up there but AMD thinks they will clock very high. They were never 'binned' per se so you can't just say they're a 955 BE - they're just Phenom II X4's and we are left with what frequency we would decide to run them at.
3) With a BIOS update this part WILL be correctly identified in the BIOS as a TWKR.
4) We have not yet found out its limits. We are working on building one into a system and seeing what they can do. Meantime we still have a business to run, so please forgive us if we don't get info out right away.
5) We are the only
system integrator to be given these chips. There are more out there, and the enthusiast should have different opportunities, however rare, to score one. I don't know that scope just yet. We may wait to see what AMD does before we decide what to do with our batch.