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A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
A little while ago there was a leak on various QVL lists by various motherboard makers for support of a Phenom II X8 2.4GHz 95W AM3+ part, and now we see an unknown 2.4GHz AM3+ CPU packing 8 cores. Some have speculated that it may either be an octo-core 'Stars' based part or even it may be a coming 'Piledriver' based part, however I would be sceptical. It is likely to be an older stepping of 'Zambezi' that doesn't cut the mustard in regards of clock speeds to be an FX part. Cheap 8 cores anyone?
The iconic task manager showing us 8 cores/threads running.
A BIOS screen shot giving some details of the unknown CPU.
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Tagged as: amd, bulldozer, piledriver, FX series, am3+, phenom 2 x 8
A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
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Helios1234 Posts: 2570 Joined: 2009-02-17 |
#22346 Posted on: 13.01.2012 16:42:01
"It's not very Effective" |
A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
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I3R0K3N7FEET Posts: 606 Joined: 2011-02-26 |
#22347 Posted on: 13.01.2012 16:44:15
lol as with everything... time will tell |
A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
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Helios1234 Posts: 2570 Joined: 2009-02-17 |
#22348 Posted on: 13.01.2012 17:09:02
"AMD fainted" |
A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
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Clockwise Posts: 34 Joined: 2012-01-05 |
#22352 Posted on: 13.01.2012 19:50:57
Won't the petrol needed to run it make mobo design kinda hard... |
A Wild AMD Phenom II x8 2420 Appeared
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superlattice09 Posts: 81 Joined: 2011-10-13 |
#22434 Posted on: 16.01.2012 17:47:45
it'll take another year or so to totallly unmask this mystery sample. Not too excited. Probably just for publicity to get some light away from the Ivy. |
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