Phenom II Black Edition TWKR 42

July 2nd, 2009 Posted in CPUs, Overclock

AMD created a small number of limited edition TWKR processors expressly for the extreme overclocking community. Called the AMD Phenom II X4 42 Black Edition TWKR processor, it has a part number of 42 that means 4 cores at 2 GHz. Based on Deneb C2 core, it comes with an unlocked multiplier and a default vCore value of 1.44v. TWKR 42 features 6 MB shared of L3 cache, each individual core also features 64 KB of L1 data cache, 64 KB of L1 instruction cache, and 512 KB of L2 cache. It is not for sale, is provided as is and it's not covered by AMD’s product warranty. It seems that only 100 of these processors are going to be sold.