 So by popular demand today I will be doing an unboxing of AMD's brand new Phenom 2 Black Edition processor. This is the X6 1090T. So this is a Phenom 2 X6 processor that means it's just like a Phenom 2 X4 processor except with two more. And that really is it. There's six cores in this processor they run at 3.2 gigahertz or and this is new AMD has their new turbo core technology which allows up to three cores to run at up to three points or at not up to at 3.6 gigahertz. So if you're running something like a game that only takes advantage of of one to three threads of your CPU it means that your CPU will actually bump its own clock speed up. Okay so this is a true 6 core design with 9 megs of total cache it is socket AM3 with a heatsink and fan. So why don't we get this thing open it includes all of AMD's previous technologies so it's 64-bit it's got cool and quiet it's got their three-year warranty all of that good stuff. Here's a little bit about AMD vision technology so they want you to use an AMD processor with obviously an AMD chipset and ATI Radeon graphics to for the best sort of overall platform. So let's get this open. They're using quite small boxes these days it's impressive. Maybe it's you know green or something. Okay so why don't we start with the accessories that are included. First accessory is a heatsink you can see right away this is manufactured by AVC obviously to AMD specifications this is a heat pipe cooler so it uses a block or rather a flat slab of copper at the bottom and then it is soldered to four heat pipes so you can see two come out of each side. It uses their stock thermal compound which is applied in a square for you and it has no covering on it other than the plastic cover that goes over the whole bottom of it. It uses a standard sort of fin design with the heat pipes coming up and going through the tops of the fins like I said two on each side and a 60 millimeter fan at the top. It uses a four pin PWM fan power connector and then you've got your standard AMD clips obviously you'd have standard AMD clips on an AMD processor all right and that is your cooling solution. Next we have you can actually tell right off the bat that these six cores are not going to be putting out a whole lot more heat than the old four cores because they haven't really stepped up the cooling at all so AMD's pulled off an engineering feat here by not shrinking the manufacturing process not increasing the amount of heat produced by the CPU but actually putting 50% more cores under the hood very cool I'm going to show you the processor more after though just to tease okay so here we go we have AMD's installation guide which huh actually still includes installation instructions for socket 754 that is bizarre so it includes 754 939 and 940 that's a little older series then you've got a M2 a M2 plus an AM3 as well as socket F or 1207 now it's funny that they mentioned a M2 a M2 plus an AM3 here because like many of AMD's processors over the last little while AMD has worked really hard on the engineering side to make their new six core CPUs drop-in compatible with older AM2 plus and AM3 boards very cool stuff so the phantom 2 x6 you can actually drop that into it supports both DDR 2 and DDR 3 you can drop it into an AM2 plus or an AM3 board that you already have with just a BIOS update obviously AMD recommends their new 800 series chipsets to get the most out of your phantom 2 x6 but it uses the same AM3 socket we're familiar with and you can drop it right in so that was pretty much all there is to say about it it looks like almost any other CPU at this point diffused in Germany and made in Malaysia for this particular guy thank you for checking out my unboxing of the AMD phantom 2 x6 no I'm not done yet I can't believe I didn't mention this this is a black edition processor it's got an unlocked multiplier so I've actually got an overclocking guide coming up soon on the AMD phantom 2 x6 and so you can you can check that out very shortly so thank you for checking out my unboxing of the x6 1090 t