engadget.com - 12/23/2008
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AMD, a company not exactly known for meeting its own deadlines , seemed to be trying to avoid news of painful delays for the Phenom II by simply not letting anyone say when the thing would be available. Now the chip is apparently in the hands of one lucky gamer at the HardOCP forums, ...
anandtech.com - 12/29/2008
fudzilla.com - 12/23/2008
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Image For distributors We have learned that Phenom
II will be available in last days of 2008,...
but only to distributors. A few sources have confirmed that distributors will start selling Phenom II 940 at 3GHz and Phenom II 920 at 2.8GHz in week 53, the ...
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Phenom II to be available next week
fudzilla.com - 12/29/2008
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Image Until Q3 2009 According to current plans,
Phenom II X4 in both AM2 DDR2 and upcoming...
AM3 DDR3 iteration will stop at 3.0GHz core clock at least until Q3 2009. We believe that TDP is to be blamed as this time AMD doesn t want to go over 125W ...
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AMD Phenom II benchmark scores emerge
DV Hardware —
... V3 32GB SSD. Here are the results: For running of SuperPi 1M the Phenom II X4 940 (3 GHz default clock speed) needed 22.9 seconds. SuperPi 32M was finished after 24 minutes and 15 seconds. The Cinebench R10 delivered a multi-core render result of 9754 points.
Overclocked to 4 Gigahertz the Phenom II was able to finish SuperPi 1M after 16.9 seconds, the Cinebench R10 result increased to 12,883 points.
Another set of results of the Phenom II 940 were spotted by Engadget at HardForum: The Phenom II 940 ...
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... Phoronix on Intel Linux graphics performance Q4'08 InsideHW on AMD vs. Nvidia: video transcoding DailyTech highlights report: Sony loses $50 for each PS3 sold today X-bit labs on graphics accelerators performance in Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 IGN has Prince of Persia afterthoughts Shacknews on the year ahead: PC gaming in 2009, part one FileShack has The Witcher: Enhanced Edition hotfix patch Systems and storage Engadget: Phenom II processor bought, benchmarked, and coveted HardwareZone reviews Asus Eee Top ...
AMD's Phenom II CPU goes on sale online in a curious, quiet fashion
Engadget —
... via an outlet other than AMD, purchased by a normal citizen without access to AMD's labs and now, for sale on the world wide web. Word has it that the units will start shipping on December 27th, which will probably be prior to an actual confession of their existence in the retail channel by AMD. Not that we're complaining about the distinctly different ...
Dell's XPS 625 reviewed already, found worthy
Engadget —
... are happening hot and heavy; Dell's Phenom II-packing XPS 625, announced just hours ago, has already been given a full once-over by DesktopReview.com, finding it to be a solid machine -- and even a good value. (When's the last time you read that conclusion about a gaming rig?) The review admires the machine's sophisticated looks, well-designed case, and easy expandability, but found that AMD's latest couldn't quite keep up with the i7 (as we'd heard earlier). Given the price point here that shouldn't exactly be a surprise. [Thanks, ...
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