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@ Sly Fox, To be honest, I dont care really. Respect has to be earned, not given.

@ LowRun, Double standards? Please dont feel misplaced to show what and where my double standards are? Thanks
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Quote Originally Posted by Jazzman View Post
Some have speculated that given the phenom underlining architecture is the same in Phenom II that you would see high current leakage as you overclocked to 4.0. On the XS AMD forum, RiverRicer found HERE that there are significant architecture changes in AMD's 45nm chip.


The above would seem to imply that should AMD migrate to HKMG (High_K_Metal_Gates) you would see still more improvement. HKMG is forecast for AMD chip construction later in 2009.

In my opinion, this technology innovation would seem to suggest that later Phenom II chips could clock well above 4.0Ghz.

For those of you technically inclined, here is an explanation of the specific design innovations:
Can anyone do some thinking about the change to high/k and metal gates? Been thinking about this.

My question is, since AMD managed to improve their current production very well; can high/k and metal gates be applied into this without issues and a guaranteed improvement in both clocks and power consumption or did AMD basicly manage to improve their process so much that it's better, even only on certain area's, than high/k and metal gates? So that if they used high/k and metal gates that they actually lose on certain areas like power consumption, clocks or whatever? Or can high/k and metal gates be more seen as a 'turbo' and basicly improves with whatever process it's combined with?