Product Description

AMD Black Edition - Processor - 1 x AMD Phenom II X3 720 / 2.8 GHz- Socket AM3 - L3 6 MB - Box

Product Details

• Brand: AMD
• Model: HDZ720WFGIBOX
• Released on: 2009-02-12
• Platform: Windows
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, .85 pounds
• CPU: AMD Athlon 2.8 GHz
• Memory: 128000MB DRAM
• Hard Disk: 1GB
• Processors: 1
• Display size: 669.2913385827

Features

• Phenom II X3 720

Manufacturer's Description
Live your life in HD. AMD Phenom II is for high definition entertainment, gaming, creativity, and beyond. With AMD Phenom II processors as the foundation, you'll enjoy a level of responsiveness and visual intensity. AMD puts high definition computing within everyone's reach.Superior technologies for HD video. Enjoy a superior high definition experience for HD videos on your PC. AMD Phenom II processor are the powerful engine behind your fidelity, high definition video entertainment experience. Only AMD puts the Ultimate Visual Experience� for HD video within your reach.Enjoy entertainment beyond your media library. Get HD content online, offline, wherever you want it, however you want it. Your system can handle whatever you dish out - and serve it up on screen in full, high definition glory.Perfect chemistry. Combine AMD Phenom II processors and ATI Radeon HD graphics to really see the difference. Enjoy smooth video, brilliant videos and immersive games. AMD unleashes visual clarity and responsiveness for what you want to do.

Customer Reviews

AMD Phenom 2 X3
This cpu works very very well with the Gigabyte GA-M720_US3 (I have also written a review on this motherboard)

Ok people are always asking about the 4th core that you can unlock well i can honestly say yes it did unlock and it wasn't very stable at all.
After unlocking it i got constant shutdowns,constant Dump Memory errors and sometimes just not even turning on.
Also the cpu runs at 2.8ghz and that did not change at all with all 4 cores which i assumed it would.

The cpu is very easy to overclock and i got a stable 3.4ghz with a Zalman Cooler (read the review on the motherboard again to find out how to overclcok using the gigabyte motherboard and also a 3dmarko6 result).

I had alot of issues with the 4th core and overclocking to start with but that was my own fault i guess people get giddy and want to push things that little bit more.

So as i said previously the 4th core unlocked was a no go and a pain in the backside to lock again but after updating the motherboards bios the cpu came alive.
I have read reviews that this can go way past 4ghz obviously with good cooling or even water cooling.

My opinion is you are looking for a cheap way of upgrading to the Phenom 2 then really this is it but on the other hand if you are wanting a quad core then don't assume that this cpu will unlock and work perfectly just buy the X4 instead.

This is probably the best cpu i have had upto now an trust me i come from the AMD 6000+ (3ghz) and that lasted me years and still played the latest games.
The only downfall which i could say is that it feels limited by the sluggishness of Vista.

Without trying it in windows 7 I honestly cannot say but what i can say is when i did try it with the old cpu the difference in speed was very clear so i can only imagine that this would be like a perfect partnership.

Hope this helps people and sorry i cannot review it on windows 7 which is a shame.

Brilliant
I was lucky enough to have an unlockable motherboard (Asus M4A79XTD EVO) + a working 4th core to offer me a quad core phenom II :D
Which unlike the above review is running very stable, so I suppose I got lucky with that too :P
I can say this processor runs very cool on my 3rd party cooler(mine is a ocz vendetta)

This cpu has more than enough power for current games ect, and so has handed the bottleneck back to my HD4850

Unfortunately I haven't tried overclocking it yet, but I guess thats because so far I really don't see the use (unless for the challenge of course)

Overall, Running on Windows 7 (64-bit) I have had no issues on what has been my first build with this item.
Used to be a bit cheaper also, but I think its still worth it :)

Jonas