AMD 960T sees the light of day as a retail chip

[Bond007]

Not that this CPU is anything really special, but with the possibility of unlocking to a hex core 3ghz I am sure there will be takers at $130.

Available now at newegg.ca

[MARSTG]

I read somewhere the Asrock had a batch of 16 and only 6 unlocked to hexacore. I don't think you would like to bet on one out of 3 chances to get it unlocked. Go for sure with an X6. and given the fact that the difference between this and the 1090T is 30$ alone, guess what will most people buy? I, for sure I am getting a 1090T. Because otherwise is more expensive than a regular quad core BE, clocked even higher.

[geokilla]

Originally Posted by MARSTG

I read somewhere the Asrock had a batch of 16 and only 6 unlocked to hexacore. I don't think you would like to bet on one out of 3 chances to get it unlocked. Go for sure with an X6. and given the fact that the difference between this and the 1090T is 30$ alone, guess what will most people buy? I, for sure I am getting a 1090T. Because otherwise is more expensive than a regular quad core BE, clocked even higher.

But do you need a hexcore? That is the question. Most users don't even need anything faster than a dual core like a Core i3. I'd probably just get the 960T because I don't really have a need for anything more than a quad core, aside from Folding@Home.

[Bond007]

Originally Posted by MARSTG

I read somewhere the Asrock had a batch of 16 and only 6 unlocked to hexacore. I don't think you would like to bet on one out of 3 chances to get it unlocked. Go for sure with an X6. and given the fact that the difference between this and the 1090T is 30$ alone, guess what will most people buy? I, for sure I am getting a 1090T. Because otherwise is more expensive than a regular quad core BE, clocked even higher.

Agreed. Curious to see if thuban with 2 disabled cores is more/less efficient and what kind of OC they could get (more for curiosity than interest), vs deneb.

[MARSTG]

don't think so, is the same architecture

[Varroa]

Well I just ordered one for my game server (see system specs below). It already has an unlocked chip in it so we will see if I can get a hexacore out of this.

[Varroa]

Well so far the unlock isn't working properly but I didn't have much of a chance to tweak it. I unlocked it and it reads as a AMD 6 core CPU in the bios and from UBCD I ran some tests and they all passed but when I tried to boot into Windows it would crash. Going to fool around with it some more tomorrow and see what I can do. As a quad core it is nice, it turbo-boosts up to 3.4Ghz and runs really cool (runs 1 degree above ambient with cool and quiet turned on at ideal).

[supaflyx3]

You'll probably need to bump up the voltage to get it stable.

[Varroa]

Tried that, all the way up to 1.4 at least. Going to try a few more things before calling it a day.

[supaflyx3]

I would try up to 1.45 if you have good cooling.