Looking for a specific penta-core AMD processor from the late 2000s.

[Skipple]

I distinctly remember as a early teenager going to my friends house where he had an AMD machine with a 5-core processor. I thought it odd, even then, knowing that CPUs mainly came in 2 or 4 core configurations. I recently tried to look up what this platform may have been but came up with little. 

This PC would have been build somewhere in the late 2000s, maybe very early 2010s. 

 

Anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? 

[Levent]

Did a quick search and I have not not found anything 5 core and AMD. I havent heard of penta core CPUs (until I made that search and realized there was apperantly one intel cpu made in 2020)

[Eigenvektor]

The only odd number I can remember are three-core CPUs

 

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu.php?cpu=AMD+Phenom+8850B+Triple-Core&id=296

[emosun]

it might have been a binned 6 core amd cpu that he was able to reenable one of the two disabled cores to get 5. Supposedly the fx series

[Applefreak]

10 minutes ago, Skipple said:

I distinctly remember, as a early teenager going, to my friends house where he had an AMD machine with a 5-core processor. I thought it odd, even then, knowing that CPUs mainly came in 2 or 4 core configurations. I recently tried to look up what this platform may have been but came up with little. 

This PC would have been build somewhere in the late 2000s, maybe very early 2010s. 

 

Anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? 

There were Athlon X2, X3, X4 and later with Phenom X6 chips. On some markets they sold defective Phenom X6 as X5 but I do not believe officially. More like scrapped parts resold as new. 

[WhitetailAni]

11 minutes ago, Skipple said:

I distinctly remember, as a early teenager going, to my friends house where he had an AMD machine with a 5-core processor. I thought it odd, even then, knowing that CPUs mainly came in 2 or 4 core configurations. I recently tried to look up what this platform may have been but came up with little. 

This PC would have been build somewhere in the late 2000s, maybe very early 2010s. 

 

Anyone have any clue what I'm talking about? 

It could have been a Phenom X6 with a core disabled for better overclocking? Those things overclocked like crazy (my Phenom II X4 955 runs at 3.2 normally and OCs to 4.2 easily, disabling cores let it go even higher)

[porina]

https://hwbot.org/benchmark/cinebench_-_r15/rankings?cores=5

 

Above link is a list to hwbot Cinebench R15 records for 5 core CPUs. Per hwbot rules, you're not allowed to disable cores.

 

Looks like they are mainly AMD X4 CPUs with an extra core unlocked:

AMD Phenom II X4 960T BE

AMD Phenom II X4 840T

AMD Athlon II X4 645T (Zosma)

 

A modern one is Pentium Gold 8505 which is 1P+4E