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AMD Phenom II Available To Distributors This Week
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."
How much power does the off-chip memory controller draw on that 95-watt core 2 quad?
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um, if you don't want integrated graphics, you can just get the 790X--it's cheaper.
you might want to get a clue first before ranting off incoherently.
You were clear, just not lucid. On-board video doesn't make a difference if you're not going to use it. Other people have told you the same.
You don't have to use the RAID on your board either. It sucks, too. Would you refuse to buy a board simply because it had the option of using RAID? Do you want an MB with just the number of PCI or RAM slots you plan to use, too? What if it has PS2 and a serial port you don't want?
You're just being argumentative. Get a life.
Put identity in the browser.
"It easily smokes most Intel quad boxes I've seen that cost several hundred more."
Except, it doesn't smoke any Intel Quad, at all. That CPU is about the same speed as the *2 year old* Q6600 at stock speed (couple hundred extra MHz but less cache). Both overclock VERY similarly too. Almost no differences in benches all-around. Unless you were comparing your OC'ed CPU to a stock Intel, which is just as true as saying a Q6600 (once OC'ed) smokes every Phenom out there at any price point (at stock speed). In fact, it's more like your box gets smoked by an Intel that costs one hundred more...
The only real difference here, is that your new CPU uses significantly more power. The $20 you saved, you'll pay 10x back in extra power used.
It's kinda sad to see AMD's latest best offering that's 2 months old barely managing to compete with a 2 year old chip...
"I'll always run Intel on servers and what not - but for a workstation/desktop you can't go wrong with AMD."
Actually, it's EXACTLY the inverse! Opterons have always been much nicer: HT bus, NUMA architecture and everything else, up until now, with Intel's QPI bus. The funny thing is, now that it's going to start not sucking (Xeons), you're switching away from it? And on the desktop, Core 2 is just much better. You got it all COMPLETELY backwards!