AMD unleashes über elite Black Edition processor

by Stevie Smith - Jul 1 2009, 15:45

Attention budding overclockers everywhere – prepare to experience the teasing pleasures of anticipation, closely followed by the cold grip of disappointment. More pointedly, prepare to meet AMD’s latest Black Edition processor.

So elite, it has its own presentation box. Image: AMD.

Undeniably friendly to the overclocking community, the new Phenom II X4 42 Black edition TWKR CPU is, according to California-based AMD, the most muscular desktop processing platform it has ever offered. Therein lies the pleasure.Here comes the disappointment. Sadly, AMD is only releasing a paltry 100 units of its sexy new chip, with most of them likely to be handed over – for free – to the world’s more prominent purveyors of overclocking.According to AMD, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, the TWKR chip is capable of hitting “the utmost performance barriers under extreme cooling,” and has been created specifically for the use of “extreme overclockers.”Built on the 45nm Deneb core, which offers an 8MB cache and AM3 package, the bog standard clock speed of the TWKR is a modest 2.0GHz but, once in the hands of a knowledgeable overclocker, can scale higher, carry significantly more voltage, and run at speeds well beyond other commercial processors on the market.While AMD has not officially released specific numbers regarding the upper limits of the TWKR, the performance of similarly muscular CPUs in the company’s product portfolio would suggest a total speed reaching towards a monstrous 7.0GHz – although that aforementioned “extreme cooling” will probably mean copious amounts of liquid nitrogen.For those overclockers lucky enough to be graced with a TWKR, chipmaker AMD has said the limited edition chips are “a way to give back to the community,” and it hopes that said community embraces the processors in order to “push the limits of overclocking.”Expect a greedy overclocker to crack from the temptation of cold, hard cash and hawk one of these bad boys on eBay in the coming weeks. Given the TWKR’s proffered capabilities, you should also expect the price to be somewhat overclocked too.The Tech Herald: AMD X4 955 Black Edition offers Intel-beating performance Want regular updates from The Tech Herald? Follow us on Twitter.Interested in a more interactive TTH? Join our Facebook Group.

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