AMD Launches Fastest Phenom Yet, Phenom II X4 980

MojoKid writes "Although much of the buzz lately has revolved around AMD's upcoming Llano and Bulldozer-based APUs, AMD isn't done pushing the envelope with their existing processor designs. Over the last few months AMD has continued to ramp up frequencies on their current bread-and-butter Phenom II processor line-up to the point where they're now flirting with the 4GHz mark. The Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition marks the release of AMD's highest clocked processor yet. The new quad-core Phenom II X4 980 Black Edition's default clock on all four of its cores is 3.7GHz. Like previous Deneb-based Phenom II processors, the X4 980 BE sports a total of 512K of L1 cache with 2MB of L2 cache, and 6MB of shared L3 cache. Performance-wise, for under $200, the processor holds up pretty well versus others in its class and it's an easy upgrade for AM2+ and AM3 socket systems."

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Re:Wait for Bulldozer

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Depends on your principals. A) Preferring to pay more to lower your energy usage or B) Not willing to pay a company your dollar for doing things more than worthy of anti-trust investigations and/or anti-trust lawsuits on a regular basis. Over a year 140 dollars is nothing even for someone in poverty (which I am with less than 15000 a year). Its also a small pittance of a fraction of the KWh being used by unclean energy. Most the unclean energy you use is from the products you consume including gas, plastics and food. There has to be something you dropped money on worth more than 140 dollars this year that was actually more useless than giving your 140 to the electric company over choosing AMD. Mine would probably be beer.