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arstechnica.com - 2/23/2009

AMD 2009 performance preview: taking Phenom II to 4.2GHz

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When it launched in early January, Phenom II's sole purpose, its raison d'être , was to rejuvenate AMD's ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, benchmarks of the new CPUs prove that Sunnyvale succeeded; the X4 940 and 920 are ...

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techgage.com - 2/19/2009

AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720 Black Edition

— techgage.com — Introduction Towards the beginning of this year (during CES to be exact), AMD launched their highly-anticipated Phenom... II processors, which at the time included only the X4 940 and X4 920. Prior to launch, we all had a fairly good idea of what to ... (more) AMD Phenom II X4 810 & X3 720 Black Edition

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techreport.com - 2/17/2009

AMD's Socket AM3 Phenom II processors

— techreport.com — The latest processors from AMD add support for DDR3 memory and come in more affordable triple- and... quad-core flavors. We like one of them quite well. Which one? And how does DDR3 memory affect performance? Keep reading for the answers. (more) AMD's Socket AM3 Phenom II processors

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ixbtlabs.com - 3/2/2009

AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking - Page 1: Intro, theory, overclocking

— ixbtlabs.com — AMD has updated its gaming platform codenamed Dragon with launching Phenom II processors. Note that we have... already reviewed some parts of this platform (for example, AMD 790GX Chipset , AMD 770/790 Chipsets , ATI RADEON 4850 512MB , AMD Phenom II X4 ... (more) AMD Phenom II X4 940 Overclocking - Page 1: Intro, ...

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Does the AMD Phenom II have a future?
DV Hardware — ... ARS Technica decided to overclock the AMD Phenom II X4 940 processor from 3GHz to 4.2GHz to answer the question whether the architecture will scale to provide continued competition for Intel's Nehalem. You can check out the article over here. ...

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AMD 2009 performance preview: taking Phenom II to 4.2GHz
AMDZone Frontpage — Ars Technica overclocks the Phenom II X4 to 4.2GHz, and compares it to the Core i7. The 940 starts here at $229, and the 920 here at $189. Deneb's comparative performance against the Core i7-965 and Core i7-920, however, is rather troubling. Even at 4.2GHz and with an IMC running at 2.53GHz (1120MHz memory clock), Deneb doesn't always outperform Intel's lower-end, 2.67GHz solution, much less the top-end i7-965. It's true that the i7-965 is a $1,000 part today, but a Deneb clocked at the rates we tested (if such a thing existed for the commercial market) ...