Phenom II X4 975 B.E. - AMD hitting 4.4GHz on 45nm

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Well, AMD has launched two processors:

Phenom II X4 975 B.E. 3.6GHz ~ 195$

Phenom II X4 840 3.2GHz ~ **102$

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Yes you read right, 102$, but dont get fooled by the Phenom II name, it’s really a Propous quad so no L3 cache. But still for 102$ a.k.a. 5.5k in India, you get 4 cores, at 95W TDP which is a great bang for buck, and good thing it might beat(or will beat) SANDY BRIDGE dual core parts, all which are priced much costlier than this.

AMD Phenom II X4 840 & X4 975 Black Edition Processors Review

AMD Phenom II X4 975 BE and Phenom II X4 840 (Socket AM3) CPUs :: TweakTown USA Edition

AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition and ECS A890GXM-A2 Review - Introduction

Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition review

AMD Phenom II X4 975BE and 840 CPU Reviews - The AMD Phenom II X4 975 BE CPU - Legit Reviews

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4.4GHz on AIR by Legit reviews and KitGuru**

AMD Phenom II X4 975BE and 840 CPU Reviews - Overclocking the AMD Phenom II X4 975 BE - Legit Reviews

Benchmarks at 4.3GHz

AMD Phenom II X4 975 Black Edition Review – overclocking performance | KitGuru

If AMD proccs hitting 4.4Ghz on 45nm, and considering Bulldozer die to be smaller and on 32nm, I see good times ahead(hopefully).

Even more interesting, this 102$ processor Phenom II X4 840 seems to be hot on heels of the Core i5 750 which is certainly deserving a “wow”, and if you look under “Power Consumption” in hardwarecanucks.com review, you’ll see that both are at the same level. Amazing for a 90$ cheaper processor.

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^^No its not a porpus. Porpus doesn’t manufacture L3. While Phenom II 8 Series does have L3 but its locked which can easily be unlocked the same way you unlock core.

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Who knows if they’ll be able to hit better speeds with 32nm. The current 45bnm process is 2.25 years old now so its quite mature. I dont think they broke 4 Ghz on a quad even around launch time

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Phenom II X4 840 is Propous