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AMD Phenom II Processor Community Sneak Peak
legitreviews.com - 12/14/2008
AMD Phenom II Processor Community Sneak Peak
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Last month Legit Reviews was invited to see the AMD Phenom II processor down in Austin and found it to be a great overclocker. After AMD showed off the Phenom II processors and the Dragon platform to the media they went one step further and did a private showing to select forum members that ...
eetimes.com - 12/8/2008
AMD announces 45nm desktop CPUs
— eetimes.com — SAN JOSE, Calif. — Advanced Micro Devices has announced the second batch of processors coming out of... its 45nm process technology. The Phenom II is a quad-core family of desktop processors with up to 8 Mbytes of on-board cache. AMD officially rolled ... (more) AMD announces 45nm desktop CPUs

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AMD Phenom II processor gets outed, might even be released
engadget.com - 12/9/2008
AMD Phenom II processor gets outed, might even be released
— engadget.com — Apparently, AMD has officially announced the release of its Phenom II processor -- though if they did,... they forgot to actually, you know, announce it. According to EE Times , the quad-core, 45nm chip is said to support DDR2 and DDR 3 memory (the ... (more) AMD Phenom II processor gets outed, might even be released

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AMD Phenom II Performance Uplift - VR-Zone.com: News and Reviews
vr-zone.com - 12/11/2008
AMD Phenom II Performance Uplift - VR-Zone.com: News and Reviews
— vr-zone.com — This slide shows the key areas of improvements for 45nm Phenom II over 65nm Phenom such as... more IPC, higher frequency, more cache, and DDR3 support. There is a 5% cache uplift on the cache architecture and a 3% uplift on the core architecture. With ... (more) AMD Phenom II Performance Uplift - VR-Zone.com: News and ...

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AMDZone Frontpage:  Phenom II Community Sneak Peak

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Phenom II Community Sneak Peak
AMDZone Frontpage — One of the Legit Reviews forum members checked out AMD's Phenom II sneak peak in Chicago. The last area was more of a spectator event. This was the overclocking demo/contest. For this there were two teams. The first was from AMD and the second team was from Finland. The contest was done in two parts. The first part was air-cooling and the second (and my favorite) was done using Liquid Nitrogen. Each team was randomly given Five of the Phenom II 940 chips cooled by a Cooler Master Z600 in a pus-pull configuration. The goal of this was to achieve the highest stable overclock. ...

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xbitlabs.com 12/15/2008 — Stars (K10) microarchitecture employed in Phenom X3 and X4 processors has finally made it to dual-core CPUs. So, the new Athlon X2 got all the advantages of their elder brothers including shared L3 cache. Nevertheless, these intriguing newcomers will ...
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