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AMD Phenom II Available To Distributors This Week

Posted by timothy on from the making-my-computers-feel-even-slower dept.

jdb2 writes "Fudzilla reports that AMD's Phenom II is already available to distributors, and will be available to sell to consumers in the week of the 29th of December. The Phenom II is AMD's consumer version of its 'Shanghai' 45 nanometer SOI process Quad-core Opteron chip and will reportedly ship in 3 and 2.8 gigahertz flavors corresponding to the model numbers '940' and '920' respectively. This first release will be packaged as a Socket AM2+ part which only supports DDR2 memory. The following month AMD is reportedly going to release a new '9x5' series of Socket AM3 versions which support DDR3 memory — these will be backward compatible with Socket AM2+ . This may be an inflection point for AMD if the Shanghai architecture lives up to the performance numbers from preliminary reports and if so it will no doubt also be a welcome belated Christmas present for the already salivating hordes of Tech Junkies."

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  1. FAR better option than anything AMD has to offer: by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    You clearly lack reding comprehension skills. I *NEVER* mentionned Intel onboard video ANYWHERE. Of course P45 doesn't come with garbage onboard video -- I call that a FEATURE (not coming with garbage is hardly a bad thing).

    Anyways, I had a look at his fanciest AMD board, and I wonder how's that any better than an Intel board:

    For about $20 more, you can get a ASUS P5Q-E, which has polymer caps thoughout as well, and 2x PCI-e 2.0 x16 with crossfirex too, but:
    -FAR better brand than biostar, which just could be worth the extra $20 in the first place
    -FAR, FAR better build quality (nice hotpipes too), that alone being worth the $20 extra for sure
    -as far as I've seen, FAR nicer BIOS options & better support (be it for RMA or BIOS updates), again, easily worth $20 extra
    -doesn't have ghetto onboard video (i.e. I would actually want to buy it)
    -dual bios (no risks at all when flashing)
    -2 more SATA ports
    -has RAID (using the nice ICH10R)
    -has toslink and spdif digital outputs (for sound)
    -2 more USB ports
    -has dual Gigabit ethernet
    -has eSATA
    -has firewire (1394a)
    -one extra PCI-e slot (x4 too)
    -better accessories bundled (three times as many SATA cables, and a dual SATA power adapter cable instead of a single)
    -supports even faster DDR2
    -*great* overclocker
    -various small features, like the q-connector

    Why would anyone want to cheap out and go with the ghetto AMD board instead is beyond me... In fact, I'm only seeing n00bs building AMD boxes these days, everybody else seems to go for the Core 2's.