Brand new Phenoms coming!!! 8-core!

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Brand new Phenoms coming!!! 8-core!

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I just read this on another site and it got me excited about a new approach from AMD. The article does not give much detail but the leak leads to very interesting and hopeful speculation. I'm guessing they will be Bulldozers with new "stepping" with improved clocks. I just don't think that will be enough though. So, I'm hoping they have something else up their sleeves to create a better product in the near future that uses AM3+ sockets.
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Re: Brand new Phenoms coming!!! 8-core!

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Was excited until you said new bulldozers. They would have made better cpus just putting Thuban on a 28nm process and ramping up the clocks and making a true 8 core cpu.
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Re: Brand new Phenoms coming!!! 8-core!

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It's hard to say if they are really bulldozers or not. It depends on what they are doing to these chips--if it were something completely new, they would be a long way off imo. So, I'm thinking they're changing something at the foundry. Could they implement previous phenom tech into the bulldozers at the plant?

I'm thinking, they should increase the L1 and L2 cache on die back to Phenom 2 levels. This would likely improve benches in today's software.
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Rig#1: Intel i5-3570K, MSI-B75MA-P45 mobo, G-Skill Ripjaws DDR3-1600 2x4gb, MSI-7870 2gd5t/oc gpu, Tt TR2-600w psu, Tt Commander Snow ed. Case, Cooler Master Hyper212+ HSF, OCZ Agility3 SSD 120GB, WE Caviar Black 750GB
Rig#2: AMD Phenom 2-970, MSI-890FXA-GD-65 mobo, 6GB Geil DDR3-1333, HIS Radeon HD6870 1GB gpu, Antec Quattro-850 psu, Rosewill Conqueror Case, Zalman CNPS-9500 hsf, 1TB Toshiba Sata3 HD
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Re: Brand new Phenoms coming!!! 8-core!

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I found the original Chinese website link with the leak. The chart is the only thing I can read. It is disappointing.

Phenom ii x8 2820, 95w, 2.8ghz, 2MB L2, 8MB L3, A1 stepping.
Phenom ii x8 3020, 125w, 3.0ghz, 2mb L2, 8mb L3, B0 stepping.

Who knows how reliable the chart is.
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Rig#2: AMD Phenom 2-970, MSI-890FXA-GD-65 mobo, 6GB Geil DDR3-1333, HIS Radeon HD6870 1GB gpu, Antec Quattro-850 psu, Rosewill Conqueror Case, Zalman CNPS-9500 hsf, 1TB Toshiba Sata3 HD
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