10/30/2007

ONwebCHECK test AMD Black Edition!

Now I get a AMD Athlon(TM) Black Edition Dual-Core CPU for Testing! :) Now I don´t want to write about some benchmarks but about that what you can do with the Black-Edition CPU and where are the differences between the Black-Edition and a normal Dual AMD CPU.
The most important characteristic of the Black-Edition is that you can choose the multiplicator
for the CPU free! You have no restriction to that. OK if you want to much it will not work! But you can make a very good fine tuning between your FSB and multiplicator on your CPU - so you can get a much higher performance from your CPU without changing the FSB. The problem is if you change the FSB so it takes effect on many things - like your RAM! Normally you have to buy a much more expensive RAM to get sure you can use it for some overclocking!
The AMD Black-Edition CPU is available as a AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ with 2x 2,60GHz and 2x512KB Cache and as a AMD Athlon 64 x2 6400+ with 2x 3,20GHz and 2x 1024KB Cache.
And of course the Black-Edition is a little bit more expensive than a normal AMD X2 5000+ CPU!
But the idea is not bad - I think AMD can get so some extra power user or power gamer to their side. And we have to see which answer Intel will give :)

1 COMMENTS:

Las Vegas Guy said...

I'm currently using an AMD 4800+ x2 (socket 940). Still a great processor, but I'm thinking of upgrading fairly soon. I heard AMD will be releasing a quad core processor soon. I wonder if it will be better to wait for that or get a black edition.