I purchased a brand new AMD Phenom 9850 Black Edition CPU a few days ago and I’ll be upgrading my PC with it on Wednesday. I will document the procedure and post a mini-tutorial on here. Should be fun.
Here are the specs on my current CPU vs my new Phenom CPU:
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Windsor 2.4GHz 2 x 512KB L2 Cache Socket AM2 89W Dual-Core Processor
- Socket AM2
- Dual-core
- 2.4 GHz
- 90 nm
AMD Phenom 9850 BLACK EDITION 2.5GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 2MB L3 Cache Socket AM2+ 125W Quad-Core Processor
- Socket AM2+
- Quad-core
- 2.5 GHz
- 65 nm
