{"id":9185,"date":"2009-08-13T14:27:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2009-08-13T14:27:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T12:27:00","slug":"amd-launches-its-fastest-ever-cpu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/9185-amd-launches-its-fastest-ever-cpu.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD launches its fastest ever CPU"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AMD today officially announced the most recent addition to its Phenom II range in the X4 965 Black Edition.<\/p>\n<p>The processor, which now claims the premier position in the Phenom II range as the highest clocked AMD CPU, offers an update to the Dragon platform and runs at a stock frequency of 3.4GHz and includes support for DDR3 and AMD OverDrive 3.0.<\/p>\n<p>Although the processor is identical to its forerunner, the X4 955 Black Edition, in that both are based on AMD&rsquo;s 45nm manufacture process, the 965 pulls ahead by 0.2GHz in terms of clock speed.<\/p>\n<p>This makes it the highest clocked AMD CPU to date.<\/p>\n<p>The only other defining factor that sets the 965 apart from the 955 is that it offers a higher TDP of 140W.<\/p>\n<p>AMD has also revealed that the 965 will offer DirectX 11 support for its incoming line of updated graphics processors.<\/p>\n<p>An official announcement regarding local availability or pricing has yet to be made. The suggested international retail price for the 965 is $245 (R1 960).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=186778\"><strong>AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition<\/strong><\/a> discussion<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition will offer a stock frequency of 3.4GHz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}