Unboxing & Review of AMD FX-6100: Powerful Desktop CPU 🔧

Type CPU / Microprocessor Market segment Desktop Family AMD FX-Series Model number ? FX-6100 CPU part numbers FD6100WMW6KGU is an OEM/tray microprocessor FD6100WMGUSBX is a boxed microprocessor Frequency ? 3300 MHz Turbo frequency 3600 MHz (more than 3 cores) 3900 MHz (3 cores or less) Bus speed ? One 2600 MHz 16-bit HyperTransport link Package 940-pin organic micro Pin Grid Array (UOC940) Pb-free Socket Socket AM3+ Weight 1.4oz / 38.6g (CPU) 1lb 4.9oz / 593.4g (box) Fan/heatsink CKM-7X52A-A1-GP Introduction date October 12, 2011 Price at introduction $165 Architecture / Microarchitecture Microarchitecture Bulldozer Platform Scorpius Processor core ? Zambezi Core stepping ? OR-B2 CPUID 600F12 Manufacturing process 0.032 micron Data width 64 bit The number of cores 6 The number of threads 6 Floating Point Unit Integrated Level 1 cache size ? 3 x 64 KB two-way associative shared instruction caches 6 x 16 KB 4-way associative data caches Level 2 cache size ? 3 x 2 MB 16-way associative shared exclusive caches Level 3 cache size 8 MB up to 64-way associative shared cache Multiprocessing Uniprocessor Features MMX instructions SSE / Streaming SIMD Extensions SSE2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 2 SSE3 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSSE3 / Supplemental Streaming SIMD Extensions 3 SSE4 / SSE4.1 + SSE4.2 / Streaming SIMD Extensions 4 ? SSE4a ? AES / Advanced Encryption Standard instructions AVX / Advanced Vector Extensions FMA4 / 4-operand Fused Multiply-Add instructions XOP / eXtended Operations instructions AMD64 / AMD 64-bit technology ? VT / Virtualization technology ? EVP / Enhanced Virus Protection ? Turbo Core 2.0 technology Low power features Core C1, C1E, C6 and CC6 states Package S3, S4 and S5 states PowerNow! Integrated peripherals / components Integrated graphics None Memory controller The number of controllers: 1 Memory channels: 2 Supported memory: DDR3-1866 Maximum memory bandwidth (GB/s): 29.9 Other peripherals HyperTransport 3.1 technology Electrical / Thermal parameters Maximum operating temperature ? 70°C Thermal Design Power ? 95 Watt