Not for Sale.

[y eye]

Will clock better than the 955 and that's a rumor.

[charlie]

Originally Posted by y eye

Will clock better than the 955 and that's a rumor.

The markings are way off, it looks faked. The lettering is not normal AMD, and they NEVER put black edition on the chips.

-Charlie

[y eye]

AMD TWKR Black hands-on

Our good friends at AMD just dropped off some fresh TWKR Black Edition Phenom II chips at our nerdery.
Goodfellas didn’t tell us much about the new mysterious part.
We’ll have to throw it in a MAINGEAR PC w/ a little bit of AOD to see what these are all about. Stay tuned. http://www.wallacesantos.com/






Edit: Tcmag is not the source of the photos. Wallace Santos is the source of the photos.
The pictures were put up today 13June09. 9:30AM MT: http://www.wallacesantos.com/
No clocking reports have been posted on the Maingear site to date.

Edit: 13June09 9:30PM MT, no Posts/Reviews/Benchmarks... http://www.maingearforums.com/forumdisplay.php?f=30

Edit: 14June09 9:30PM MT, No Benchmarks No pictures from Wallace Santos.

14June09, XS has not posted any forum comments since 10:00AM. No pictures, No Benchmarks...

[Alexko]

If this is anything more than a bunch of crap, it's probably just hand-picked, very expensive CPUs for extreme overclockers; in other words, nothing that really matters.

[charlie]

The reason I don't think this is a real pic is twofold, the CPU markings are not the same format as normal ones, and they don't have needed info like the barcode and serial numbers.

The other thing is that the engineering sample parts don't say 'not for sale', they say 'not for REsale', bad grammar and incorrect wording. That said, that is a software term, the chips always say 'Engineering sample' when from Intel, AMD does not mark ES parts as such.

20 ES parts from AMD within 10 feet of me, including things put out before numbering schemes changed, and none say ES or NFR on them. That is why I think the pic is faked.

-Charlie

[The_Wolf_Who_Cried_Boy]

Originally Posted by charlie

The reason I don't think this is a real pic is twofold, the CPU markings are not the same format as normal ones, and they don't have needed info like the barcode and serial numbers.

The other thing is that the engineering sample parts don't say 'not for sale', they say 'not for REsale', bad grammar and incorrect wording. That said, that is a software term, the chips always say 'Engineering sample' when from Intel, AMD does not mark ES parts as such.

20 ES parts from AMD within 10 feet of me, including things put out before numbering schemes changed, and none say ES or NFR on them. That is why I think the pic is faked.

-Charlie

It might be worth investigating, Sampsa and Chew are confirming these as a legitimate product in this thread at Extreme Systems, these two are among the few over there who do have credibility.

* And congratulations on the move Charlie.

[y eye]

In this thread at Extreme Systems Chew states that he does not have one. Sampsa does not say that he does.

[265586888]

42: The "Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything"

[sarcasm]Well, that does explains everything...... [/sarcasm]

[LiamC]

Hit monkeys? Publicity swine, I mean hounds? Viral marketing?

[y eye]

6/15/2009 by: Theo Valich - Show Me What I'm Looking For - Carolina Liar (OFFICIAL VIDEO) ...