AMD PHENOM II LATEST Sensational 45nm chip to challenge INTEL's Icore 7 920 processors

AMD which had plans of releasing 45 nm cpu's long back finally stamped their feet on 45nm technology with its the Phenom II X4 920 at 2.8 GHz, and the Phenom II X4 940 at 3.0 GHz.Its the direct attempt to regain the momentum AMD once had with its Athlon 64 processors.Amazing improvement compared to prevous phenom is that less energy consumption thanks to 45nm achitecture and inreased power consumption rating from 125 W (TDP) to 140 W.Another fascinating fact is that this new technology based phenom II is compatible with almost all AM2 motherboards which dramatically eases the pressure of AMD's fans.Second most advantage is that AMD has knocked down 3 GHZ barrier with its PHENOM II.Bigger buffers and Cool n Quiet 3 enhanced does make a difference.Main 4 performance enhancements are listed below

1, Instructions per clock cycle enhanced

2, Clock rate enhanced

3, 6MB L3 cache

4, DDR3 1333 Support

AMD also found the name DRAGON platform for Phenom II processors combined with AMD 790 series chipsets and 4800 radeon series gpu's. After few months Phenom II will be released with new AM3 socket.This will work with faster DDR3 RAM, but to maintain backward compatibility with AM2 and AM2+ sockets, even this model will include a DDR2 RAM interface.

Best phenom x4 processor before this release 9950 BE was made to bite dust by this new sensation phenom II x4 940.But INTEL's Core i7 920 - 2.66 GHz still rides the world fast by a good margin .But AM3 Phenom II might be a heavy weight challenger for Intel's best beast Icore I7 920.Phenom II 920 is priced around 225 USD to confuse Itel quadcore q6600 lovers and 940 is priced around 275 USD to confuse Intel Icore 7 920 lovers.Hence if you want to buy a best performing quadcore than q6600 and if you are budget conscious close your eyes and swipe your card for this AMD's wonderfull smallest chip which the company has managed to manufactrure with most number of transistors ever in a single die.