Retail AMD Phenom II X4 (Deneb) OC spotted

[Uncle Jimbo]

But yeah, cool chip with 125 W TDP. I doubt it.

Here's an interesting result on i7 - 105C on a 4G OC!!! now THAT's hot!
http://www.tbreak.com/articles/13/1/...ing/Page1.html
The 965EE running stock is 77C at load.

A friend of mine who has been testing i7 says gaming performance is 'disappointing' compared to his previous Intel OC results, and that the chip runs up against the 130W TDP protection (and clocks down) pretty quickly. When he turns off TDP protection, the chip gets hotter than a firecracker.

deneb looks to be running very cool - one poster shows 38C at 3.6G on air
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...&postcount=354

I'm sure we will see a lot more benchmarks in a few weeks when the AMD tester NDA is lifted. But from what has been leaked, it looks like these chips will produce a lot less heat while running at or better than i7 in most real world situations. And, they plug in to existing boards, so a buyer is looking at <$300 to upgrade versus board, ram and processor for i7 ~$800 or more. Also a lot easier to pop in a CPU than re-rig a whole box.

They also seem to be available in the channel and some retail chips are being put out for 'evaluation' - http://siliconinvestor.advfn.com/rea...msgid=25275998