p2 x4 960t

[Dt_Freak1]

anybody ever seen one of these loose for sale on the open market? the possibility of unlocking it to a thuban x6 is intriguing.

 

[RGone]

I’ve been asked the question about whether there will be a Phenom II X4 960T “Thuban” quad-core by enough individuals, that I think it is a good idea to proactively share the answer to everyone. While there are indeed engineering CPU samples floating around of a 4-core Thuban 960T, I do not expect that processor will be released for general availability. Perhaps it may make its way to OEMs by special request, but that remains to be seen.

I really don't blame AMD for doing this. They got beat up in some circles due to instability in unlocked X2s and X3s (even though they told everyone to unlock at your own risk). Customers were unlocking cores and overclocking and when things went belly up, they blamed AMD or trashed their CPU's performance in blogs, etc. AMD tried to explain that it was the result of what they were doing with the deactivated core, but no one would listen, so they discontinued ACC. Well, Asus came up with their own version of ACC and AMD did the only thing they could to curb the unlocking. I think you're absolutely correct in thinking they will only offer these procs in OEM PCs (if they offer them there!).

I did find one of those processors for sale in Hong Kong. That was the only place I saw one for sale except in a few OEM computers. Most of those that unlocked were Engineering Samples and not supposed to be for sale. Often Engineering samples have features that are not the same as the 'released' cpu anyway.

 

[Dt_Freak1]

I did a little searching on my own and the closest i could get to finding one was a listing for one on ebay.com at $170 or on amazon.com as part of an HP prebuilt system that specified the zosma core 960t with 8gb of ram, a dvd burner, a 1.5tb hd and a wifi network card built in with a flat screen lcd monitor for around $590. so i guess usa OEMs did get a few of these chips. but I couldnt see buying one of these zosma chips for either of those prices when on ebay you can find sellers selling brand new in box p2 x6 1090t processors for $13x with free shipping. http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Phenom-...sor-/230668190068?pt=CPUs&hash=item35b4e54174 i dont believe it would be very good economically speaking to buy one of these zosma cores at that inflated price, but if it were around the 1090t pricig it would be kinda cool. at the worst youd have a rare quad core processor with an unlocked multiplier, at the possible best you could unlock to a 6 core thuban series. heres the hp pc i found. http://www.amazon.com/HP-Pavilion-p...1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1315232217&sr=1-1

 

[RGone]

but I couldnt see buying one of these zosma chips for either of those prices when on ebay you can find sellers selling brand new in box p2 x6 1090t processors for $13x with free shipping.

I hear that loud and clear. But you know how it is when one believes he can get something for nothing. I see where 3 core cpus are bought to specifically attempt an unlock; when >$20 would bring four cores for sure. I guess it depends on how one looks at things.

 

[Dt_Freak1]

yea, i think im going to try to swing into a 1090t myself.

 

[keny]

There's a couple of 970T's on eBay uk for £100 BIN 3.5ghz stock , if these unlock I wonder what clock they would make, it's tempting !!!!!!

 

[Dt_Freak1]

who knows. id still watch for a real thuban class processor because theres no 100% guarantee that it will unlock to be a thuban.

 

[storm-chaser]

There's a couple of 970T's on eBay uk for £100 BIN 3.5ghz stock , if these unlock I wonder what clock they would make, it's tempting !!!!!!

You can unlock the Zosma 970's into a 3.5Ghz stock setting, hexacore. But they are rare and difficult to find, plus you may not be able to unlock the other cores.
Here is my cpu z result for the 970 unlocked into the 1705T and OC to 4.0Ghz


You can identify the CPU stepping and base cores on your zosma/phenom II, see this helpful cpu-world guide for more details:
http://www.cpu-world.com/info/AMD/Unlocking_cores_and_L3.html

And the wiki page is good to identify the zosma based P2's:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o...rs#.22Zosma.22_.28E0.2C_45_nm.2C_Quad-core.29

 

[Dlaw]

I got my 960T on Newegg for around $130~$140. Unlocked without a hitch. It won't happen every time, like Dt_Freak said, but I was upgrading from a x2 220 @2.8GHz, so even the x4 @3GHz would have been fine for me.

Ps. before I unlocked it, my WEI went up from a 6.1 to a 7.2. After I unlocked it, it went up to 7.5.

This is what I bought:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103995