Liquid Cooled AMD FX-Series CPU Teased by AMD Insider
An image has surfaced showing the packaging of a liquid-cooled FX-Series Processor.
Roy Taylor, AMD's VP of global channel sales, has tweeted that something new is coming. The tweet, which reads "Something New is Coming @AMDFX," came alongside the picture below.

We can see from this image that AMD will be coming out with a new FX-Series processor with water cooling. Which CPU this will be, when it will arrive, or any details beyond this, remain unknown.
There was a rumor on the streets a few weeks back that AMD was working on a new CPU geared at enthusiasts. Whether this is that CPU remains unknown, though it is certainly possible, as we know nothing about that CPU either. Unfortunately, the side of the box with the specifications cannot be read, but the packaging material looks like it might be big enough to house a 120 mm radiator. Of course, we would only expect it to be a 120 mm unit, as only that would be compatible with most cases.
Could these finally be the water-cooled Vishera processors we heard about a long time ago, possibly water cooled versions of the FX-9370 and FX-9590?
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Didn't those chips need water-cooling anyway, just because of how hot they were? I mean the FFX 9590 was 220W FFS!
This is what AMD has put forth for true innovation and future advancement, even planning to defy moore's law.
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 ...
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
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
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.
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.
Clearly...
Water too cold? Bring an AMD!
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.
http://www.techpowerup.com/202388/amd-to-launch-fx-9590-refresh-package.html
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.