Wednesday, March 18th 2009
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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Could be Arriving on April 20th
New information from German tech site Hardware-Infos, has lead to the news that AMD's fastest CPU, the Phenom II X4 955, could be available from April 20th this year. Using the AM3 socket, the CPU is made using AMD's latest 45 nm fabrication process, and is clocked in at 3.2 GHz (16*200 MHz). Sporting 512 KB of L2 cache per core, and a 6 MB L3 cache, AMD have managed to match the 125 W TDP of the recently released Phenom II X4 940.
Sources:
Expreview, Hardware-Infos
33 Comments on AMD Phenom II X4 955 Could be Arriving on April 20th
but its taken them 3/4months just to come out with a +200mhz on the same core? lol
with the added ability to use DDR3 which is more or less on par with DDR2. you're probably better off buying a X4 940 & overclocking that instead
i have used a 945ES with DDR2 and DDR3 and it shows an improvement while its not a huge one there is an improvement none the less.
the 3 wave will come :)
Solutions? Either run the RAM at the lower speed, or jack up the reference clock so that they are running at the higher speed again. I'm sure these solutions also apply for the ddr3 memory controllers on the am3 chips.
People forget it abit, and then o0o. so its more like that aswell.
+ memory controller issue
The switch to DDR3 isn't cheap tough and the performance gain is minimal. Although I will admit some cheaper DDR3 sticks are starting to surface, you can pick up 2x2GB DDR3 1600 G.skill setup for like $75 on the egg, so it's getting very tempting.
my 940 runs nice though :)
This CPU is coming out on 420 ... Either Buy this.. Or A lot of the other good stuff... Or Buy both and have great fun with them
Defiantly will be waiting for this CPU instead of a 940 which I was going to purchase in a couple days... As well for me to prepare for Ln2 project, l will be waiting for this CPU
woot
There's a date for this but not for 945?
What about that 950 business?
Will this be Black Edition?
Whatever the case, this sounds awesome...