[Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Yes thats right there is nothing here... i thought i would give you all a dose of what they just did to me.

I read the article up to the page just before the benchmarks and they took it back down.... Damn NDAs

I have Hexus on my RSS though so as soon as its put back up il slap some info and a link here so watch this space fellas

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=16757

As promised

The razzamatazz of CES 2009, held in Las Vegas, Nevada, provides the backdrop for a product launch that will define AMD's high-end desktop CPUs for the first half of the year.

Based on the company's 45nm manufacturing process and brought to market a couple of months after the launch of the similar server part, Shanghai, AMD's Phenom II quad-core processors promise higher clock speeds, to better compete against Intel's Core 2 Quad CPUs.

Phenom II 920 and 940, released at clock-speeds of 2.8GHz and 3.0GHz, respectively, will be available to buy in a couple of weeks. We investigate whether the advancements over incumbent Phenom X4 are enough to make them serious contenders in the <£250 market.

[Death Merchant]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

I hear these overclock to 4ghz easy too really nice chip from amd :thumbsup:

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Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

I saw some SuperPi tests of the Phenom 2 on OCN. At 3.9ghz, it was pulling 17 seconds in SuperPi 1M.

To put that into context, my 3.7ghz Q6600 does it in 14 seconds...

This shall be interesting.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

The bit tech review puts things into context slightly better imo

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2009/01/08/amd-phenom-ii-x4-940-and-920-review/1

[Death Merchant]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

I saw some SuperPi tests of the Phenom 2 on OCN. At 3.9ghz, it was pulling 17 seconds in SuperPi 1M.

To put that into context, my 3.7ghz Q6600 does it in 14 seconds...

This shall be interesting.

When super pi was released in 1995 the fastest processor the pentuim mmx 90mhz took 3 days to do the 32 million calculation, shows how far processors have come in a decade and a half

Right now sitting in the middle of the C2Q range is not good for AMD, Intel can simply make a few price cuts and bring things back to what it was like before phenom 2 but if AMD can get some new versions of the chip maybe at 3.2 and 3.4ghz soonish then that would make the C2Q range unappealing to people looking to buy mid-range cpu's

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

thing is im pretty sure AMD have a fair bit of room for price cuts themself. I dont thing AMD have actually set out to thrash Intel right now, they are just getting a workking product to the table so they dont dissapear any further into the abyss.

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Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

I doubt AMD have much room to cut prices given they are losing money fast.

[Busby, Paul (Bicci)]

Re: [Hexus] Phenom II: Striking Back With a Vengence?

ya but these chips are cheaper to manufacture than the previous phenoms due to the reduced man proc.

I dont really think any company has room for price cuts as such atm as they are all losing money i meant more in the schem of things if prices are forces down by intel MD should be able to handle it