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:Uh...this is 301 posts of Intel fans vs AMD fan

[mr_stinky_britches]

TL:DR

cool story bro!

Re:Wait for Bulldozer

[Antisyzygy]

You'll also be paying your dollar to a company that routinely did things worthy of anti-trust lawsuits, effectively screwed Nvidia, and routinely cannot perform worth a shit in their own graphics technology.