The Deneb core showed to be just the shatter they wanted to obtain back in the game and they've utilized that to their full benefit. Today we have their best quad core present, the X4 965 that runs at 3.4GHz, formally creating it the greatest quad core till date, as evaluated to Intel's fastest Corei7 975 that sprints at 3.33GHz.

This new Phenom II X4 comes with the similar 6MB of L3 cache anchored in the AM3 socket. The one thing that has distorted is the power rating, which is now 140W, while the preceding flagship X4 955 had a TDP of 125W. AMD should certainly be nearing some limitations with the speed of their Deneb CPU's. This chip too is bound for be priced anywhere near the 15K mark. Since we were very close to the 4GHz mark with the overclocked X4 955.

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