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Posted by Brandon Sandman Bell on Tuesday June 30, 2009 - 08:20 AM

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» AMD sheds more light on TWKR CPUs

Today AMD has revealed more details on their "TWKR" Black Edition CPUs we've been telling you about for the past few weeks. As we've mentioned, AMD confirmed that TWKR CPUs are designed to handle more voltage, which in turn allows them to safely be cranked up to higher clock speeds provided you have extraordinary cooling.

AMD says that the chips are limited edition parts -- less than 100 CPUs will be made -- and won't be made available to the general public. AMD has posted three TWKR photos on their AMD Unprocessed flickr account, and a new Youtube video has been released showing off their OC'ing prowess (CPUs are OC'ed to speeds in excess of 6.5GHz on LN2 and liquid helium). Here are the highlights straight from AMD:

  • The AMD Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor is a limited-edition chip created to provide extreme overclockers with a powerful tool to initiate serious performance.
  • Designed to reach the utmost performance barriers under extreme cooling, this part demonstrates AMD’s superior engineering design quality.
  • The TWKR parts can handle more voltage, scale higher, and run faster than other processors on the market.
  • As the same processor that AMD used to demonstrate the record-breaking overclocking potential of AMD Phenom II CPUs earlier this year, the TWKR processor is unmatched in yielding high frequencies at extreme cold temperatures, like in this video here.
  • With less than 100 processors worldwide, these TWKR processors will not be for sale.
  • AMD is giving these parts to select members of the extreme overclocking community as a tribute for their support and to encourage them to push the limits of overclocking.
  • AMD understands that overclocking is not for everyone. For mainstream users that don’t push their desktop PCs to the absolute limits, the same engineering that goes into the extreme performance of “TWKR” processors can be found in every AMD Phenom II processor available today.

    And here's the Youtube video featuring TWKR CPUs:

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    Click to view B.A.Frayd's User Page B.A.Frayd (384)  Talk to B.A.Frayd in the Shout! Box Jun 30, 2009 - 02:24 pm
    Seriously, what's the point? Is this a lame attempt to make people believe that AMD is actually competing with Intel for the high end market?

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    Click to view deimos47's User Page deimos47 (445)  Click to view deimos47's User Profile Talk to deimos47 in the Shout! Box Jul 01, 2009 - 07:06 am
    » before "TWKR", they tried different names..
    before "TWKR", they tried different names..
    PHENOM2-7GH-EDITION
    SUCKR
    SOLD_AS_IS_NO_REFUND
    HA-HA-NO-WARRANTY-ONLY2GHz

    But seriously, they are 2Ghz chips with no warranty, with at best, marginally better OC characteristics only if using LN2 or better. Unless you're going to break it anyway, why bother.

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    Click to view mr.wielder's User PageI am an AMD Agent mr.wielder (1416)  Click to view mr.wielder's User Profile Talk to mr.wielder in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Jun 30, 2009 - 03:24 pm
    Point? Because it's cool!

    (ka-pwing!)

    TWKR is for fun and marketing. Call it "lame" if you want, but 6.89GHZ is a pretty damn impressive o/c if you ask me. Too bad they only branded 100 of them..

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    Click to view LORD ORION's User Page LORD ORION (1368)  Click to view LORD ORION's User Profile Talk to LORD ORION in the Shout! Box Jun 30, 2009 - 10:40 am
    So... this makes them great short term overclockers, but I would be surprised if one lasted over a year at stock speeds, let alone over clocked.

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    Click to view mr.wielder's User PageI am an AMD Agent mr.wielder (1416)  Click to view mr.wielder's User Profile Talk to mr.wielder in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Jun 30, 2009 - 09:54 am
    Not for sale?? Bollocks!

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    Click to view Knuckles's User Page Knuckles (1358)  Click to view Knuckles's User Profile Talk to Knuckles in the Shout! Box Jun 30, 2009 - 10:18 am
    Yeah everything is for sale. If you can't get it from AMD directly, you will find it on ebay

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    Click to view mr.wielder's User PageI am an AMD Agent mr.wielder (1416)  Talk to mr.wielder in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Jun 30, 2009 - 10:27 am
    That's true =]

    Not like I could afford one anyway but it will be fun to see what people are willing to pay for one of these when it pops up on ebay.

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