AMD cores up with Phenom II

AMD has officially released a set of Phenom II processors with three or four cores priced to undercut Intel's Core 2 Duo and Quad line on a bangs per buck basis. AMD Phenon II X3 The Phenom II X3 runs at either 2.6 or 2.8GHz and the 2.8Gig variant is said to be 20 per cent faster at a 3D rendering task than a Core 2 Duo E8400 …

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Posted Monday 9th February 2009 12:51 GMT

Flocke Kroes

Can you demonstrate liquid helium cooling?

People using liquid nitrogen can often boot up and start a benchmark test before thermal stress destroys the CPU. I have not heard of anyone getting even that far with liquid helium. (Liquid helium is also more expensive and more dangerous than liquid nitrogen. Most people that could afford it have enough sense not to try.)

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