Introduction
We are hearing that the new “Deneb” 45nm core AMD Phenom II processors will overclock pretty darn well. Up to 5GHz+ on LN2! Obviously, many enthusiasts will be satisfied with hitting QX9770 stock speeds on their current socket AM2+ motherboards. No doubt, AMD fans are talking about it a lot.
Until then we will share with you what AMD has let fly this week at analysts’ day. Yawn. The server part that is known as Shanghai and desktop Deneb will be very similar. Anyway, we are looking forward to desktop parts.
But honestly, after getting all riled up about Phenom last time and getting left with my wiener in my hand, I will wait in giving any kind of opinion on the new Phenom II until I know for sure. The fact is that I just bought two Intel Core i7 920 processors less than $250 each after tax, title, license, and destination charge. Core i7 processors overclock obscenely easily and will eat anything AMD currently makes for lunch, and possibly dinner too. Did you notice we just left them out of our Core i7 articles? There was just no sense even spending the resources doing the benchmarks.
So until we get our own Phenom II in our hands, please let us leave you with these awesome AMD slides. I hope these are enough to keep the AMD fanboys from going Postal over the holidays.
