AMD to launch an FX series CPU and liquid cooler bundle

by Mark Tyson on 23 June 2014, 12:11

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AMD Vice President and part-time HEXUS columnist Roy Taylor showed off an intriguing processor bundle this weekend. Via his popular, well followed, Twitter account Taylor teased us that a new FX processor is on its way and included a packaging shot for good measure.

All we know is from the Tweet, as you can see above. Taylor Tweeted a very brief and vague "Something new is coming..." alongside the blurry boxed processor photo. Upon the box the following is written: "AMD FX-Series Processor with Liquid Cooling System". I downloaded a larger version of the photo but no other text was discernible. Taylor hasn't replied to the series of teaser replies which have been received.

Is this an AMD answer to the recently unveiled Intel Devil's Canyon 'overclocking friendly' processors? An AMD source "confirmed" to Xbit Labs that the chip in this bundle with a liquid cooling system is "a new multi-core CPU aimed at high-end desktops". Furthermore the processor is fully unlocked.

However the teased AMD processor bundle isn't expected to bring anything really new to the AMD FX processor range other than the liquid cooler marketing ploy. According to AMD roadmaps it will be based in the Vishera design and the Piledriver micro-architecture, not Steamroller.

Perhaps, at last, the AMD Centurion will become an official product in some form? As soon as we have any further info on the product, price and release date we will let you know.

UPDATE:

Hardware Canucks got the scoop: "AMD is relaunching the FX-9590 but bundling it with a water cooling solution so it can achieve even higher out-of-box overclocking frequencies". The liquid cooler is the Cooler Master Seidon 120 AIO LCS. The bundle will sell for $360.

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Posted by Plasmastorm - Mon 23 Jun 2014 12:19
Surely anyone who is going high end is going to have their own cooler, be it closed loop or custom build.
And low end users are generally put off by the though of liquid cooling.
Posted by Jowsey - Mon 23 Jun 2014 12:36
While I'm not getting my hopes up for a table turning performance from this processor it is positive to see AMD making inroads towards high end cpu's again.

Regardless of which ‘team’ you fight for, any competition is good competition. Even if this is a rehashed old chip with a suitably lowered RRP , I'm content. As much as people like to look at the 5% victories, you can't argue that some of the 8 core FX chips were up the face of some of the i5 chips.

Also, AMD, if this is a new processor to some extent can we PLEASE have a new motherboard chipset!
Posted by abychristy - Mon 23 Jun 2014 13:10
“Liquid cooling System” ! Is it gonna be that hot. An hey so the power consumption will also come a lot right. You know till past year I looked at only Price/Performance but now I am into the Power/Performance and I don't care about the price. Also If its gonna be cheaper than i7-4770k or 4790k I will still look at the power consumption, if its less than the Intel ones I mentioned then only you'll get the green light from me.
Posted by crossy - Mon 23 Jun 2014 13:43
Jowsey
As much as people like to look at the 5% victories, you can't argue that some of the 8 core FX chips were up the face of some of the i5 chips.
I'm sure Cat will argue that. Remember having this conversation where the FX can mix it up with the i7, never mind the i5's. It's the old chestnut about multi-thread v's single thread performance. Intel's got great single thread, but the AMD's can just throw more processing units at a problem. I still thought though that in gaming, the Intel chips were the one's to aspire to.
Jowsey
Also, AMD, if this is a new processor to some extent can we PLEASE have a new motherboard chipset!
Why? Board manufacturer's seem to be pretty adept at adding features via third-party chips. That Sabretooth I bought this year, (to replace a failing board I bought in 2010), has SATAIII, USB3.0 etc. Only thing missing is PCIe 3.0 and I read a lot of column inches on how that doesn't make a notable difference anyway with the 2013-generation graphics cards.

No, what I want from AMD, if they feel that they MUST unleash a new chipset, is a decent processor upgrade to go with it. Especially if that new processor ups the single thread performance over what's being offered now. APU's are all very well, but it's not the whole market guys!
Posted by zaph0d - Mon 23 Jun 2014 14:11
crossy
I'm sure Cat will argue that. Remember having this conversation where the FX can mix it up with the i7, never mind the i5's. It's the old chestnut about multi-thread v's single thread performance. Intel's got great single thread, but the AMD's can just throw more processing units at a problem. I still thought though that in gaming, the Intel chips were the one's to aspire to.

For the moment Games are still heavily dependant on single thread, but only while DirectX is the limiting factor.
As soon as games move closer to near-metal api's like Mantle (when more mature) & DirectX 12 (when available) then the multi-threaded performance will take over.

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