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The AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition is AMD's new flagship processor, available at launch for $265 in the states and £225 inc vat in the UK. The 1090T will move down to a very modest $235/£200 price point to make way for the new model.
The 1110T is a socket AM3 processor clocked at 3.3ghz (3.7ghz via Turbo) and is manufactured using a 45nm process. It has a total of 9MB of cache, which breaks down into 6MB of shared L3 Cache and 3MB of L2 cache, 512kb per core. Memory support is unchanged, with DDR2 up to 1066mhz and DDR3 up to 1333mhz being offered. Obviously you can run faster than this via the motherboard bios, but these are the conservative ‘official' specifications direct from AMD.
These official specifications deliver up to 17.1 GB/s memory bandwidth with DDR2-1066mhz and 21.3 GB/s memory bandwidth with DDR3-1333mhz.
The processor runs via the Hypertransport 3.0 bus at up to 4,000 MT/s full duplex (2.0ghz x2). This particular processor is rated to a maximum TDP of 125 watts and a maximum temperature threshold of 62c. The AMD official rating for the voltage is set between 1.125 v and 1.40 volts – although we will delve into this more later.
As before, while the processor is rated to 3.3ghz, under Turbo it can achieve 3.7ghz. This means that when the processor isn't needing the full power of all six cores, it can shut down half the cores and increase the clock speed to a maximum of 3.7ghz. Most overclockers disable this feature then force all cores to achieve higher speeds anyway, and this is exactly what we will be doing later.
The physical appearance of the 1100T is just like any other Phenom II processor we have looked at.
bloody hell, nice overclock man. that is a cracker processor.
Love the cinema4d information, i use an older quad core for rendering a lot and this seems like my next upgrade. price point is better than I thought. I remember the 1090t was 250 when it came out.
Like the idea of a review/OC guide. I never know how the fuck to overclock my chips. the 1055T guide you did helped me alot.
Id love to say ill get this for my upgrade, but its a bad time of the year, maybe in the new year.
Love it. well done.
Nice overclock. I only managed to get 500mhz out of my 1055T which was pretty poor. Good to get your views on voltage also, not many ocing guidelines on that and hard to know from forums who is talking out of their ass and who is right.
OCUK are selling this for £225 inc vat? thats a deal and a half, just ordered one.
Ive been holding off on a new platform for ages. Im a multiple core fan, I bought the first core quad eons ago and havent upgraded since. Might look into this in the new year when I have some spare cash to burn.
I agree this is one of the best looking AMD chips yet, the overclocking potential seems high. that noctua NH D14 cooler is insane however, covers the motherboard basically !! not exactly easy to work around it.
unusual review style, but I like the overclocking guide concept. My friend used the 1055T guide here months ago and it helped him. headroom seems higher on this chip, but I think it might be a hand picked review sample? possible ?
If you arent overclocking then its not worth the premium over the 1090t. pointless really. I hope this review sample is a good indication of headroom. I watercool and I got the 1090T to 4.3ghz easy enough with 1.65 volts. potential for 4.5ghz here.
I like this editorial. its a boring release so getting the max from air cooling is a nice way to differentiate the test results. Seems to be a good purchase, but its hard to fault for the price. its a strength of AMD’s releases in the last year. aim for the lowest point possible and max the cores.