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AMD Phenom 9900 2.6GHz Socket AM2+
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Socket AM2+; Clock speed: 2.6GHz; HyperTransport Link: 4GHz (full duplex); 65nm process; Cache: 2MB shared L3, 2MB L2 (512KB per core), 512KB L1 (128KB per core); Voltage: 1.1V/1.25V (min/max); 140W max TDP With the Phenom processor series, AMD has a...
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Its worth considering the Phenom 9900 if you want to extract top performance out of your existing AMD-based system, but the upgrade path might not be a smooth one. Wait until the motherboard manufacturers iron out any BIOS issues before investing in...
By Good Gear Guide onCPUAMD’s new Phenom processors and Spider platform for desktop systems incorporate some impressive steps forward for the chip maker. The chips, which are made using a 65-nanometre manufacturing process, feature both a native quad-core design and...
By PCWorld New Zealand onWith the clichéd Phenom-phenomenal word play out of the way, let’s get stuck into the ins, outs and all abouts of the newly released quad core from AMD.This quad core processor marks the end of a very, very, very long wait. Following delay...
By Atomic MPC onAMDs Phenom might have come a day late (closer to a year) and a dollar short, but its those short dollars that have kept value seekers looking to the green team for the latest technology. Today were treated to a special appearance of AMDs upcoming...
By SysOpt onThe initial release of the AMD Phenom processor was a very rocky one, littered with low clock speeds, poor memory performance scores and TLB errata. Some things have changed since then, and at 2.6 GHz, the Phenom 9900 offers a more competitive part...
By Sharky Extreme onWell all the benchmarks have been run and the results should speak for themselves. I am impressed with some aspects and disappointed with others. Im very disappointed that I could not overclock the Phenom 9900 and both motherboards that I have in my...
By Overclockers Club onI believe many of you remember the triumph of the first 64-bit x86 Athlon 64 processors. They were the ones that made AMD processor leader for a significant period of time: until Intel started rolling out their CPUs on Core micro-architecture. It was...
By X-bit Labs onI was actually quite pleased with the performance of the Phenom 9900. Given AMDs public commitment to fixing the TLB errata, and their move to 45nm with the "K10.5" architecture (Barcelona with some additional improvements) I suspect that AMD will...
By Neoseeker onThe initial comparisons between the new quad core Phenom and the Intel processors weren favorable for AMD, as Phenom cannot compete with Intels top of the line Core 2 offerings. Especially out of reach for AMD is the 45 nm Penryn generation, which was...
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