AMD Phenom II Review Thread

[Macadamia]

How about a 3.4Ghz Stock 6 core Opteron... on desktop.

I'm very impressed by the initial power @ load numbers. This makes Istanbul far more interesting than we thought.

If AMD doesn't screw up power load of Istanbul < 1.5x "PC" of Deneb since cache isn't growing at all, and TDP never scales linearly vs cores.

Does that mean a 125W six-core @ 3Ghz that uses <100W in real life loads, pops up?
Server (2Ghz -> 2.8Ghz) seems to be saved because of this, but desktop might not like it so much.

OTOH AMD will probably earn more money with the Athlon X4 quads for OEM, compared to the total of Phenom I.

Somethings makes me think, especially when one of the post involved macci, thats those chips were incredibly cherry picked.

It doesnt help the second event was sponsored by amd

And you whine when we rag on [T]OCP.