The arrival of the Phenom II X4 965 was heralded as a great success making it the fastest process on the market in terms of core speed coming in a 3.4GHz and replacing the 955 BE at 3.2GHz. However, with a Thermal Design Power of 140W, many users were less than pleased as cooling the CPU becomes that much harder; even the high performing core i7 range of CPUs have a lower TDP of 130W.
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AMD Launches Phenom II TWKR for Overclockers
July 1, 2009 – 8:47 am
With exclusive products such as the Cooler Master Black Label and Asus GTX295 which had a limited amount produced, AMD have decided to go down a similar route. However, their new exclusive processor, the AMD Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR will only be made 100 times and these will then be given out to the best overclockers out there.