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this is the phenom ii x4 970 and i will tell you what is special about it it is a quad-core processor at 3.5 gigahertz with eight Meg's of cache that makes it AMD's fastest quad core in terms of sheer frequency ever and we are going to open it up it uses a true quad core design which is what mostly everyone is using these days and it fits in a standard am-3 socket and he's really done a phenomenal job actually fits in an AM 2 Plus socket - AMD has really done a phenomenal job of making sure that their customers are getting great backwards and forwards compatibility out of their new CPUs their old motherboards and yeah kudos to AMD so this chip supports ddr2 as well as ddr3 that is an AM 3 or nay m 2 plus socket it is AMD vision black you can see the branding sticker is put on there a little bit after the fact so you should combine it with an HD 5000 series graphics card as well as an 800 series chipset to get the best possible experience according to the AMD vision marketing campaign that AMD does here is a quick start guide as well as your warranty information we're not really going to go through that in any great detail so we'll have a look at the chip itself it comes with a phenom 2 sticker which you can put on your case Hey look at that I haven't seen a sticker like that before look it slides into a little thing we pull it out with your thumb and it doesn't go anywhere you know that's kind of different and AMD's actually changed their other CPU clinch a little bit too it uses a slightly different design now so we'll have a look at the chip itself there it is venom 2 can see all the numbers on the top of the chip so there's a 940 pins on the bottom now that's an m3 compatible you know and we'll have a look at the included thermal solution since this is their highest clocked quad core this is going to come with a fairly beefy cooler I can already see it has a copper well fairly beefy for a stock key warning it's not gonna really really compare to that thing but it'll be reasonably close well never mind it'll run fine unless you're overclocking in which case you should probably get something to okay so this is the cooler that debuted with the original socket 939 dual core Opterons I remember this one and back then it had an 80 mil fan which was slightly cooler and more impressive but it still has this looks like a 60 millimeter fan and it's a slightly deeper one it's not a low-profile one so you should get some pretty good airflow out of it it's about four heat pipes a copper base and aluminum fins and that's too much all there is to say about it like I said if you're running it stock this is going to run nice and cool nice and quiet for you but if you are overclocking you're probably going to want to throw something a little bit more impressive on your brand-new Black Edition CPU is black edition so this is a black edition chip that means it does come with a fully unlock multiplier for as amv puts it maximum control or for from my perspective lazy easy overclocking so it means you can tweak it as much as you possibly can without really knowing anything about overclocking which is great you just turn up the multiplier turn up the core voltage and boom you're done now something I want to investigate so you'll have to stay tuned for a future video is whether or not this quad core can be unlocked to a six core it depends on what kind of manufacturing process AMD is using and I hope to update you in the future don't forget to subscribe to Linus tech tips to hear that video and more subscribe it's the gold button on the left or the right I don't remember where it is