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Phenom II at 6+ GHz: How AMD May Have Done It

Bluesman said:
Great analogy Binge! I think the reason you don't get high heat initially above 1.4 with Phenom II is because of very low channel leakage.
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Interesting read: thanks, dude!
 
Phenom Prices and Availability

Now that some of you may be interested in Phenom II and clocks of 4-6.5 Ghz here is a SOURCE for release information. (Special thanks to informal at XS for the source.) And NO I am not an AMD employee or distributor, just a lousy overclocker looking to have fun with a new cpu!

DISTRIBUTORS IN EUROPE and North America will begin shipping both OEM and retail boxes of the Phenom II 920 and Phenom II 940 starting December 18th (Europe), according to one distributor, and December 20th (North America).

The Phenom II X4 920 SKU will sell at about $235 to retailers, while the overclocking whiz-kid, the Phenom II X4 940 will ship at $275. At least one distributor says December 20th is the ETA for the shipment.
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Bluesman said:
Now that some of you may be interested in Phenom II and clocks of 4-6.5 Ghz here is a SOURCE for release information. (Special thanks to informal at XS for the source.) And NO I am not an AMD employee or distributor, just a lousy overclocker looking to have fun with a new cpu!
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Great read Bluesman, now I'm very confident that AMD won't kill us with a steep price as well as no shipping schedule.
 
That's pretty impressive. I would never attemp something this crazy. :eek:
 
AMD is on the warpath!!!! JK scratch that last one. Sweet, this proc with turn some heads when it gets released. AMD might be able to get back in stride.
 
Hopefully this cpu sell at reasonable price.. like intel Ci7 but hate their price..
I will never OC with LN2. Just ordinary OC guy.. :p
 
szulmizan said:
Hopefully this cpu sell at reasonable price.. like intel Ci7 but hate their price..
I will never OC with LN2. Just ordinary OC guy.. :p
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Phenom II 940 is supposed to be $275 in the states. Was it here that I saw that? maybe on the inquirer...
 
Live OR Die said:
im going to wait and see pictures are just pictures, could be running at 6ghz but could be slower than a i7 at 5Ghz lol
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I heard they added a whole bunch of instruction sets to their lists. Deneb will have more IOPS than the previous Phenoms, but, a good amount are NOT going to be in Deneb. They are trying to save it for their next release.

Chicken Patty said:
^^^yup, here you go

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/12/05/phenom-ii-fore-christmas
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Intel is going to take the 'machete of price cutting' to their CPUs.

They keep it in the closet next to the rat poison.

Binge said:
45nm process is 45nm process. I hate feeling like this is an argument because there is proof that no matter what type of electronics you are dealing with the 45nm process will degrade at accelerated (dare I say exponential) rates over 1.4v.

These semi-conductors get smaller and smaller they use less power (and that is good)... there is a point where the voltage can literally change the structure of a gate, breaking it. What I'm trying to say is that a door for people to pass through will hold it's form for just so long with so much use but on Black Friday when the energy of the crowd outside of Walmart got too intense the front doors of the Walmart were forced from their hinges, a greeter was trampled to death, and a pregnant woman severely injured. People still bought goods... Walmart still operated but at what cost?
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100% true. The whole reason for the shrink is to increase performance, while reducing the need for energy.

Smaller space--less time needed for the travel; but the more you put in that small space, the more crowded it gets.
 
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Sonido said:
I heard they added a whole bunch of instruction sets to their lists. Deneb will have more IOPS than the previous Phenoms, but, a good amount are NOT going to be in Deneb. They are trying to save it for their next release.



Intel is going to take the 'machete of price cutting' to their CPUs.

They keep it in the closet next to the rat poison.



100% true. The whole reason for the shrink is to increase performance, while reducing the need for energy.

Smaller space--less time needed for the travel; but the more you put in that small space, the more crowded it gets.
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"machete of price cutting" hahahahahah. That was funny. Where you from dude?
 
that's amazing :respect::eek::respect:
i wish my dad would let me do this kind o stuff, sounds like they've outdone theirselves once again
 
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Sonido said:
New York. I just can't wait for these bad boys to go head to head.
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cool, hard to see someone use the word "machete" in here.
 
I'll be going Phenom II after DDR3 boards are released in Feb. I really hope AMD delivers this time.
 
Dunno if this has been posted before:

Look @ this.

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I find it hard to believe that the stock 9950 cooler keeps it at less than 30C idle.
 
Sonido said:
45 nm ftw!

Damn ... I can't wait.
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I really hope that even if these can't compete with i7, they come close enough, whether in performance or price or both, so that Intel lowers their prices and we all benefit from it.
 
HTC said:
I really hope that even if these can't compete with i7, they come close enough, whether in performance or price or both, so that Intel lowers their prices and we all benefit from it.
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Lower prices, lower temps, and all of that means good things for both teams and future tech.
 
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sorry 6213.6 at 31x , how much multiplier this support , nice gigabyte mobo
 
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