neoseeker.com - 1/7/2009
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AMD Phenom II X4 920: 2.8GHz (14x200) multiplier-locked AMD Phenom II X4 940 BE: 3.0GHz (15x200) multiplier-unlocked 45nm DSL SOI (silicon on insulator) technology approx. 758M transistors approx. 258mm2 die size max case temp of 62'C L1 cache: 64KB code + 64KB data per core (512KB total) L2 ...
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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AMD closes the gap with Phenom II today
TweakTown's News RSS Feed —
... - Neoseeker So far we have now seen AMD release the Phenom core in quad, tri and dual core variants, slowly phasing out the K8 architecture for all time. And its about time, as AMD has been relying on this same architecture since 2003 when Hammer was released at Computex. Today AMD ups the ante in regards to Phenom with some minor changes to the design. We take a look at the Phenom II 940 processor core along with a new platform named Dragon to complement the latest technology. ...
Phenom II X4 Reviewed
techPowerUp! —
... CPU. With four processing cores clocked at 3.00 GHz, it embeds 2 MB L2 and 6 MB of L3 cache. Based on the AM2+ socket, it supports the DDR2-1066 standard. This processor is especially overclocker friendly with its unlocked FSB multiplier and the overall positive response from the reviewers on its overclocking headroom. Here are some of the reviews at:
bit-tech | Elite Bastards | ExtremeTech | [H] Enthusiast | Hexus | HotHardware | NeoSeeker | TechReport | TweakTown | The Guru of 3D | ...
AMD Phenom II Reviews
hardCOREware Feed —
... and Neoseeker’s. I just got in touch with AMD again after many years, and it looks like we’ll be working with them on reviews again. ...
Hardware Roundup: AMD Phenom II X4 Edition
Overclockers Club news Feed —
... Dragon enthusiast platform consisting of a 790GX chipset motherboard and an AMD/ATI HD 4800-series videocard. While the chipset and videocard components of the platform are familiar to users by now, the CPU component is new so read on to found out what the Phenom II X4 processors can do.
AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ OCC
AMD Phenom II Arrives – 45nm Deneb and Dragon Platform @ TweakTown
Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940 @ HotHardware
AMD Phenom II X4 (Deneb) 940 Launch, Review & Overclocking @ Neoseeker ...
Neoseeker reviews the AMD Phenom II X4 940 :: Posted by THRASHER2
The Mother Board —
"It overclocked up to 3.6GHz by merely changing the multiplier - and I only had to add a +0.10 Vcore offset to stabilize the most difficult benchmarks; so I think it is fair to say that most people should be able to reach at least 3.6GHz with air cooling."
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anandtech.com 1/29/2009 — We have been testing the overclocking capabilities of the Phenom II X4 940 (seriously, who names these products?) for an AMD roundup and have hit the proverbial brick wall. It has not been for the lack of trying or even using a stellar motherboard to ...
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enthusiast.hardocp.com 1/8/2009 — We have been waiting for this CPU, but hardly with bated breath. While we had high hopes, the Phenom II is already waning in enthusiast circles. We pit it against the Intel Core 2 Quad and Intel Core i7, clock for clock. Isn't that what we really want ...
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