overclockersclub.com - 1/8/2009
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Introduction: Everyone wants to have the fastest systems out but not many can afford it or justify spending thousands of dollars on a computer, just to have top end technology. But do you really have to spend that much to have an extremely powerful computer for your games and benchmarks? Quad ...
hothardware.com - 1/8/2009
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hothardware.com —
AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on
two fronts for the last few years. For a
time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction ...
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Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940
techreport.com - 1/7/2009
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techreport.com —
Little more than a year after the introduction
of the original Phenom, the Phenom II has arrived
with more of everything good--cache, clock speeds, features, and performance--and less of everything bad, including power consumption. But is it enough to ...
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AMD's Phenom II processors
techspot.com - 1/8/2009
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techspot.com —
Today we are covering the official launch of
the new AMD Phenom II X4 processors. The flagship
model in this new series is the Phenom II X4 940 which works at 3.0GHz, while the 920 is just slightly slower at 2.80GHz. Both processors should be ...
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AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920 review
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... 1x at a time until the system would not boot or became unstable. Then I backed it down by a half to achieve stability. Next I pushed the BUS speed 1MHz at a time until again the system because unstable. Doing this gave me a nice stable overclock that passed all of the benchmarks with no problems at all. The final overclocking result was 3.755GHz which is about a 26% overclock. This is also 155MHz better than my first run with this processor when I attended the AMD Tech Day. Link: Overclockersclub
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digitimes.com 22 days ago — AMD has updated schedule to phase out several Phenom II X4 900 series CPUs, while launch a new model in 2010, according to sources at motherboard makers.
[Phoronix] AMD Phenom II X3 On Linux Review
phoronix.com 5/26/2009 — Earlier this year AMD launched the Phenom II series to succeed the original quad-core Phenom processors , with these newer desktop CPUs being built upon a 45nm process, tripling the amount of Level 3 cache to 6MB, and offering support for both DDR2 ...
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fudzilla.com 12/23/2008 — 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 ...
AMD Phenom II X4 940
tbreak.com 1/8/2009 — The CPU industry has been on quite a ride in the last few months. We saw Atom introduced by Intel mid last year followed by the Core i7 late last year. Even AMD re-branded the Phenom’s as X2, X3 and X4 based on the number of cores and then introduced ...
AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920: A True Return to Competition
anandtech.com 1/8/2009 — Have you been waiting for AMD's return to competition? The Phenom II does just that. It's still not the Return of the Jedi, but on its third try AMD got it right. Phenom II is the first competitive quad-core CPU AMD has ever made....
AMD Phenom II X2 550 and Athlon II X2 250 Processors Review
overclockersclub.com 6/2/2009 — Introduction: Lately, the processor market has been the biggest we have ever seen. The competing manufacturers have new CPUs releasing all of the time, aimed at everyone from the hardcore speed enthusiast to the budget minded user. Since not everyone ...
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