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AMD Shows Upcoming Phenom II CPU At 6.0 GHz+

Posted by timothy on from the calm-down-there-cowpoke dept.

Vigile writes "Today during a press briefing at AMD's offices in Austin, TX the company showed off some upcoming technology that should be available sometime early in 2009. What was most impressive was the overclocked speeds of the pending Phenom II X4 45nm processors. On air cooling AMD showed the quad-core CPU running at nearly 4.0 GHz while with much more extreme liquid nitrogen cooling help the same CPU reached over 6.0 GHz! It looks like AMD's newest processor might finally once again compete with the best from Intel, including its recent Core i7 CPUs."

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  1. Patience by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    If they just wait six months, their new chip won't be such a hot product and thus won't need liquid nitrogen to reach 6GHz

  2. All good but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Will it run Vista?

  3. Re:first question.. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    It's over 9000!!

  4. Only nitrogen? by cheetham · · Score: 4, Funny

    Anyone ever tried cooling a CPU with a continuous flow of liquid helium? :)

  5. Re:And ? by randyest · · Score: 3, Funny

    Yep. And that means a dual-core version will leave you limbless.

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  6. Re:first question.. by MaxwellEdison · · Score: 4, Funny

    Theoretically, he may have been wondering about 4GHz. He, theoretically, may have wanted the power rating of the one they actually demonstrated. Of course he may have theoretically read the article too...in theory that is.

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  7. Re:first question.. by Hatta · · Score: 2, Funny

    1.21 gigawatts

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