Quote Originally Posted by knopflerbruce View Post
I guess the "power consumption" depends on how you measure it. SOmeone used a temp probe and some elementary physics to get a pretty decent number

There are a whole lot of results out there now, and eve if it's not i7 killers they've released I'd say AMD did an A-W-E-S-O-M-E job - these chips are HUGE improvements over Agena, and that's the only fair comparison. The fact that they can compete with Intel quads is also a good sign.

I don't really see why Anandtech's conclusion should be so important, either. it seems obvious to me that that's just some Intel fan's opinion. "If Intel chooses to do this and that"... well, that's not the case TODAY, so its' a useless comment. The fact is that the Deneb platform gives you alot of performance for your $$$.
I agree - this seems to be a very good part.

Anandtech had an interesting chart on OC - and they pointed out that the production parts would probably move Phenom II 940 to 4.1G or more.

But even using their ES they got the following, which was done using STOCK cooler, and shows the Phenom II 940 looking pretty good:

Processor ............ Stock Voltage . Overvolt. % Increase . Vcore
AMD Phenom II 940 .. 3.2GHz ......... 3.9GHz ...... 30% ..... 1.52V
AMD Phenom 9950 BE 3.03GHz ....... 3.38GHz ..... 30% ..... 1.45V
Intel Core i7-920 ..... 3.83GHz ....... 4.0GHz ....... 50% ..... 1.35V
Intel Core 2 Q9550 ... 3.48GHz ....... 3.91GHz ..... 38%...... 1.35V