Liquid Cooled AMD FX-Series CPU Teased by AMD Insider

[N.Broekhuijsen]

An image has surfaced showing the packaging of a liquid-cooled FX-Series Processor.

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[shardey]

This only shows one thing, more heat is going to be produced.

 

[dwatterworth]

Why not just cut the price and let the user decide which cooler to use? Seems like this small cooler would barely be able to handle the chip under full load.

 

[voltagetoe]

Now this is interesting if it's going to be silent and also low TDP (less than 125W). I'm afraid that the motive for watercooling has been overblown TDP (more than 140W). Rather frustrating if it's all just overoverclocked old chips...

 

[leeb2013]

Don't the higher clocked fx cpus (4.8GHz etc) require liquid cooling anyway because of the huge power consumption and heat generated? So what's new with this?

 

[voltagetoe]

Now this is interesting if it's going to be silent and also low TDP (less than 125W). I'm afraid that the motive for watercooling has been overblown TDP (more than 140W). Rather frustrating if it's all just overoverclocked old chips...

 

[iron8orn]

Unless it is a 28nm FX at 125w i am not interested.. and if it was it would not need a liquid cooler.

 

[bemused_fred]

"water cooled versions of the FX-9370 and FX-9590"

Didn't those chips need water-cooling anyway, just because of how hot they were? I mean the FFX 9590 was 220W FFS!

 

[Amdlova]

my last AMD processor Phenom II 965 i can't think on these FX lines. This is expensive and burn To hard. I compare FX line with the Pentium 805D Overclock like hell but Bring Down the temps and power to knees.

 

[iron8orn]

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/id-2193486/heterogeneous-architecture-parallel-proccessing-extented-instrution.html
This is what AMD has put forth for true innovation and future advancement, even planning to defy moore's law.

 

[Wisecracker]

Now that the *FX* moniker has crossed 'architectures' a water-cooled FX Kaveri Steamroller APU with 512 Radeon cores would be spiffy.

The FX-9xxx Piledrivers will run 4.7GHz at 1.36v at 280w system load. An i7 'Haswell' at the same clocks will blow past 200w, easy ...

 

[wiinippongamer]

Now that the *FX* moniker has crossed 'architectures' a water-cooled FX Kaveri Steamroller APU with 512 Radeon cores would be spiffy.

The FX-9xxx Piledrivers will run 4.7GHz at 1.36v at 280w system load. An i7 'Haswell' at the same clocks will blow past 200w, easy ...

and be twice as fast per thread

 

[iron8orn]

Now that the *FX* moniker has crossed 'architectures' a water-cooled FX Kaveri Steamroller APU with 512 Radeon cores would be spiffy.

The FX-9xxx Piledrivers will run 4.7GHz at 1.36v at 280w system load. An i7 'Haswell' at the same clocks will blow past 200w, easy ...

I could only imagine the raw power of a Steamroller FX with liquid cooling released at 5ghz

 

[Wisecracker]

and be twice as fast per thread

Which means absolutely nothing in a highly multi-threaded environment, which is the purpose of an 8 integer core FX processor.

 

[iron8orn]

and be twice as fast per thread

Which means absolutely nothing in a highly multi-threaded environment, which is the purpose of an 8 integer core FX processor.

I think it means alot.. i mean more performance per ghz with less power consumption.

 

[chaosmassive]

if only and only AMD able to cut down its tdp, im pretty sure many ppl will love it..

 

[mamasan2000]

It is clearly an ad for laptops you can bring with you to the beach and into the water.
Clearly...

Water too cold? Bring an AMD!

 

[Rookie_MIB]

I'm wondering if they're trying to get somewhat of a lock in the high performance department. They released the R9-295X2 with factory watercooling, and it has proven to be extremely fast and very quiet. Match it up with a watercooled FX processor and hopefully get more of the same.

That being said, I'd love to see this applied to (as mentioned) a very highly clocked APU. One of the big problems with the APU's is the heat generated by both the CPU and the GPU tends to drop clocks for BOTH units. So - having a nice watercooler could certainly enable getting some extra thermal headroom for them.

 

[universal remonster]

it has already been reported that it is the 9590 refresh to try and answer the Devil's Canyon release. This time it will include the AOI cooler for only $40 more than the chip only version. Piledriver cores, 4.7ghz, turbos to 5ghz.

http://www.techpowerup.com/202388/amd-to-launch-fx-9590-refresh-package.html

 

[Traciatim]

. . . and yet it will still be unable to best some i3's and most i5's in the majority gaming benchmarks. Come on AMD, if only to get Intel back on the performance pumping CPU launches rather than this wimpy energy efficiency crap of the last few cycles.

 

[iron8orn]

if only and only AMD able to cut down its tdp, im pretty sure many ppl will love it..

it has already been reported that it is the 9590 refresh to try and answer the Devil's Canyon release.
http://www.techpowerup.com/202388/amd-to-launch-fx-9590-refresh-package.html

It dont think it has anything to do with trying to answer Intel devil's canyon.. you cant even really compare the chips.
It is just AMD doing what they should have done in the first place... give you a decent cooler that can handle a couple extra 100mhz.

 

[Deus Gladiorum]

AWESOME! Even though I want to switch to Intel, I'm still pumped that AMD isn't (completely) abandoning their FX series. Also, on the front of the box in the image, right below the picture of the processor itself, there's some really blurred text. But if you look closely, don't the last 3 letters of that text kind of look like the numbers "450"? Either that or it's 4 numbers and it says "4350" -- it's really hard to tell and that means a big difference. That'd either mean a re-release of an FX-4350 (I'd have to ask why) or... a continuation of the FX series with the FX-8450!!!

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

i like AMD. Even if their CPUs are a tier lower than Intels, AMD is pumping real good value. I am sure that the FX 9590 @ a lower price (lets say, under the i7 4790k) with this water cooler will be more apreciated than what intel has to offer. I mean, trow anything @ that FX (game/ what ever) and it will run it. Sure 220W TDp sounds "bad", but how much TDP has the flagship i7 @ 5 GHz? anyone made the math?

 

[dwatterworth]

You can't really compare clock to clock for Intel to AMD. Intel stomps all over AMD clock for clock in pretty much any category. The 83XX or 95XX from AMD are really competing vs the i5 chips.

 

[shogunofharlom]

If they give me another overpriced 32nm chip i am going to walk into my nearest computer store and take a dump on that stupid box. If they give me a 28nm 8 core chip I am going to send them back my 8350 in a box filled with it and moldy cheese cause I am tired of the AMD lies.