AMD releases new a revised Phenom II - X4 965 fits to 125W

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AMD releases new a revised Phenom II - X4 965 fits to 125W

VR-Zone - November 04, 2009 2:43 PM

As we expected, AMD is now releasing a new revision of the Phenom II X4 965. The most notable feature is reduced power consumption, dropping from a seary 140W to 125W. In reality, the previous 965 was right on the boundary of 125W anyway, so the actual drop in load power is reported to be more to the tune of 10W. A thermal improvement is also expected to yield a greater overclocking headroom, though that needs to, and will be, tested soon. In addition, there are a few other tweaks, such as official support for four DDR3 modules at 1333 MHz, and C1E is finally supported in hardware. AMD have struggled with power management, especially the original Phenom series, with slower software power switching costing big chunks of performance. Switching power states through hardware will have "virtually no impact" on performance. More details next page.

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