The heart of the AMD Phenom II X4 960T BE processor is the Zosma core, which, in turn, appeared only thanks to the 6-core Thuban crystal.
In fact, the hero of today’s news note is AMD Phenom II X6, which had two cores disabled and turned into a 4-core processor. In much the same way, with the help of a suitable motherboard, the Phenom II X4 960T BE chip can be made either a 6-core or, most interestingly, a 5-core processor.
As we wrote earlier in one of our previous materials, the competitive base of the HWBot website contains an item about the number of active cores on the tested chip.
An Italian overclocker under the nickname cnzdrn took full advantage of this feature of the site. The enthusiast adopted the Phenom II X4 960T, activated only one of the two cores disabled at the factory, and got 3 records in the current CPU rank:
789 points at a processor frequency of 6243 MHz, this result is already significantly higher than the 6-core, 12-thread Core i7-990X.
15002 points at the same frequency 6243 MHz.
But in the GPUPI for CPU – 1B benchmark, with a result of 10 minutes, 53 seconds, 473 milliseconds, the processor frequency could not be kept at the previous level and the overclocker dropped to 6188.3 MHz.
Quite an interesting fact: as a result, it turned out (the author of the news doesn’t really follow the 5-core discipline), in the same Cinebench R15, 30 overclockers submitted their results. This is quite a lot considering the relatively low popularity of the Phenom II X4 on the Zosma core.
The following components took part in the record-holder test setup:
- Processor – AMD Phenom II X4 960T
- Motherboard – GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7
- RAM – Corsair Dominator GT 2 x 2GB
- Video card – NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GTS
The rest of the components remained unknown.
Source: Cnzdrn profile on HWBot website
