AMD Phenom 8600 Triple Core Phenom CPU-Z screen shot

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AMD Phenom 8600 Triple Core CPU-Z screen shot. The CPU was running on a NF 570SLI mainboard.

As you can see from the screen capture. The CPU is based on 65nm architecture and runs at 1.232v. It is of Family F, Model 2 Step 2, Ext family 10 and ext model 2. It supports MMX(+),3Dnow!, SSE, SSE2, SSE4, SSE4a and x86-64.

It operates at 2.3GHz with a 11.5 multiplier. The CPU CLK runs at 200MHz. It has 3x64KB L1, 3x512KB L2 cache and 2MB L3 cache.

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Originally Posted by bluetooth

It is of Family F, Model 2 Step 2, Ext family 10 and ext model 2.

I'm sorry, but it is wrong to say it's of Family F. It's simply and strictly of Family 10. CPU-Z's listing of these values is incorrect, or at least confusing. Since Family 10, the official definition of value "Family" is as follows. From the BIOS and Kernel Developer’s Guide (BKDG) For AMD Family 10h Processors:

Family is an 8-bit value and is defined as:
Family[7:0] = ({0000b,BaseFamily[3:0]} + ExtendedFamily[7:0]). E.g. If BaseFamily[3:0]=Fh and ExtendedFamily[7:0]=01h, then Family[7:0]=10h. This document applies only to family 10h processors.

(The reason for this updated definition is that the original Family field in the given CPU ID register is of 4 bits, whose are maxed out with the value of hexa "F", so additional bits was needed to enable higher values.)

So, what is now listed in CPU-Z as "Family" is -- in case of Family 10 CPUs and up -- really "BaseFamily" (a 4 bit value of no interest anymore to the user), and what is listed as "Ext. Family" is the Family itself.

The definition of the Model value was also updated, in a similar fashion.

(They could save a little space listing simply Family and Model, to enable listing more info on Instruction Set enhancements..)

[bluetooth]

Just quoting from CPU-z

[dezz__]

Okay, but perhaps we should convince them to modify their interface.