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so by popular demand today I will be doing an unboxing of AMD's brand new finem 2 Black Edition processor this is the x6 1090 t so this is a finem 2 X 6 processor that means it's just like a thin M 2 X 4 processor except with two more and that really is it there's 6 cores in this processor they run it 3.2 gigahertz or and this is new AMD has their new turbo core technology which allows up to 3 cores to run at up to three points or atom not up to at 3.6 gigahertz so if you're running something like a game that only takes advantage of of one two three threads of your CPU it means that your CPU will actually bump its own clock speed up okay so this is a true 6 core design with 9 Meg's of total cache it is socket am3 with a heatsink and fan so why don't we get this thing open it includes all of AMD's previous technologies so it's 64-bit it's got cool and quiet it's got their three-year warranty all of that good stuff here's a little bit about AMD vision technology so they want you to use an AMD processor with obviously an AMD chipset and ATI Radeon graphics 2 for the best sort of overall platform so let's get this open they're using quite small boxes these days it's impressive maybe it's uh you know green or something ok so why don't we start with the accessories that are included first accessory is a heatsink you can see right away this is manufactured by AVC obviously to AMD specifications this is a heat pipe cooler so it uses a block or rather a flat slab of copper at the bottom and then it is soldered to for heat pipes so you can see to come out of each side it uses their stock thermal compound which is applied in a square for you and it has no covering on it other than the plastic cover that goes over the whole bottom of it it uses a standard sort of fin design with the heat pipes coming up and going through the tops of the fins like I said 2 on each side and a 60 millimeter fan at the top it uses a 4 pin pwm fan power connector and then you've got your standard AMD clips obviously you'd have standard AMD clips on an AMD processor and that is your coolant solution next we have you can actually tell right off the bat that these six cores are not going to be putting out a whole lot more heat than the old four cores because they haven't really stepped up the cooling at all so AMD's pulled off an engineering feat here by not shrinking the manufacturing process not increasing the amount of heat produced by the CPU but actually putting 50% more cores under the hood very cool I'm going to show you the process or more after though just to tease okay so here we go we have Andy's installation guide which huh actually still includes installation instructions for socket 754 ah that is bizarre so it includes 754 9 3 9 and 940 that's all the older series then you've got a M 2 M 2 plus and a M 3 as well as socket F or 1207 now it's funny that they mention a M 2 m 2 plus an am 3 here because like many of AMD's processors over the last little while AMD has worked really hard on the engineering side to make their new six core CPUs drop-in compatible with older am 2 plus and am three boards very cool stuff so the Fen of 2x6 you can actually drop that into it supports both ddr2 and ddr3 you can drop it into an AM 2 plus or an AM 3 board that you already have with just a BIOS update obviously AMD recommends their new 800 series chipsets to get the most out of your phantom 2 x6 but it uses the same am-3 socket we're familiar with and you can drop it right in so that was pretty much all there is to say about it it looks like almost any other CPU at this point diffused in Germany and native Malaysia for this particular guy thank you for checking out my unboxing of the AMD phenom 2 x6 no I'm not done yet I can't believe I didn't mention this this is a Black Edition processor it's got an unlocked multiplier so I've actually got an overclocking guide coming up soon on the AMD Phenom 2 x6 and so you can you can check that out very shortly so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the x6 1090 T