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AMD CPU Naming

Sorry for the back and forth edits on the Black Edition stuff. Can you refer to where AMD states to use the BE abbreviation with no space, or find an list on their site? Generally I've really been hating AMDs naming rules, since they seem to switch up frequently (i.e. X6 vs 6-core, Black Edition vs Black), and seem to lack consistency even across their own pages. Kolano (talk) 03:20, 13 January 2014 (CET)

Hmm, the more I look, the more it seems I was wrong. Using "BE" without a space in-between seems to merely be a convention when talking about that CPU on the net/forums (and, as with most things on the net, even that is not 100% consistent), and as far as AMD themselves go, they actually do not use "BE" at all. WHen they refer to their own CPUs internally, it seems that they consistently write out the entire "Black Edition" bit (as e.g. here). However, looking for the actual model names brings up something interesting: This link and this official model number list, which lists official AMD desktop CPU along with names. Guess what? The actual model names do not use the letters at all. Techincally, there is no such thing as neither a "975 BE" or a "975BE"; there is, however, a "975", officially called (but not bearing the actual model name of) "975 Black Edition" since it is "available as a Black Edition PIB" (coincidentally, there are no non-black edition variants of the 96x, 97x and 98x series in existence (at least not of the tray/boxed versions (part numbers ending in "BOX" as opposed to "DGM" which are OEM pieces). With this in mind, it seems that the only option left to us if sticking with giving official/manufacturer-given names we have to skip the "BE" altogether and either use "9xx" or "9xxx Black Edition", as those are the only officially valid names. If, however, we are prepared to let go of being manufacturer-loyal in our writing/naming-conventions, it's up to us to choose whether we'd like to use "BE" with or without a space, in which case I suggest without a space as that seems to be the consistently most used across the web, especially amongst hardware-geeks. One notable exception to this is Anandtech, which uses a space. incassum (talk) 22:32, 13 January 2014 (CET)