Dec 19
Unleashed: AMD Phenom 9600 BLACK EDITION Quad-Core Processor With NO Specs and NO Details
On December 19, 2007, AMD released a new AMD Phenom 9600 Black Edition quad-core processor with Clock Multiplier Control for tunable performance. The newest Black Edition processor can improve platform performance by unlocking the potential of AMD OverDrive– the industry’s most powerful Windows-based performance tuning utility. More at AMD.
As per the headline, AMD press release ( click on the thumbnail for a screen shot) has NO mention of any kind of specs / clock speed.
OK! after a little bit Googling, found some specs at X-bit Labs:
“Quad-core AMD Phenom processor 9600 Black Edition will operate at 2.30GHz clock-speed, 2MB shared L3 cache and 512KB dedicated L2 cache per core and will have support for dual-channel PC2-8500 (DDR2 1066MHz), just like the typical AMD Phenom 9600 chip. However, the Black Edition processor has unlocked clock multiplier, which allows enthusiasts to clock the new chip higher than 2.30GHz without any issues that are associated with overclocking.” More at X-bit Labs.