AMD Phenom X4 9600 Black Edition 2.3GHz Socket AM2

When AMD “launched” its quad-core Phenom toward the end of last year, our very own Brandon Bell was there to weigh in. And if you’ve read that story, you already know he was not at all impressed with AMD’s market readiness....

AMD Phenom is a good attempt at making a Quad Core CPU and had it been out before Intel brought out their Quads perhaps we would have seen a high takeup of those CPU's. However, in the current climate, armed with Intel Core 2 Quads that compete in...

You may or may not have noticed that weve yet to dedicate a review to AMDs Phenom CPUs. This is for a number of reasons but mainly the lacklustre performance of the first batch of CPUs combined with the fact that our initial samples werent...

Overall, the Phenom 9600 Black Edition is a very attractive product for those seeking an AMD processor. At a default 2.3 GHz clock, it already matches the fastest Phenom quad core on the market, and with a potential 2.6 GHz overclock, the Phenom 9600...

Socket AM2+; Clock speed: 2.3GHz; HyperTransport Link: 3.6GHz; Cache: 2MB L3 (shared), 2MB L2 (512K per core), 512K L1 (128K per core); 65nm process AMD’s line of native quad-core Phenom processors left many enthusiasts feeling a bit flat upon...

Its clear that the extra north bridge frequency does have some effect but generally not a lot - certainly nothing noticeable unless you spend your life encoding x264 content. Its a real shame that both our Black Edition Phenom 9600 processors didnt...

This review has been interesting to say the least as weve put in quite a few hours, mainly in testing. As with any review as you move through the process you think of things that would make the review better or come across information about the...