A frikin 2.6 GHz CPU shouldn't have a 125W thermal envelope. How the hell are they going to reach 3.0GHz and beyond?

So finally we'll see if the Phenom's almost 4 times faster system bus actually beats out Intel's core 2s.

Does anyone really care anymore? It's over for AMD this round - again :/

Uhm, AMD renamed their lineup, they dropped the x moniker

Phenom FX-XX now Phenom FX-XX
Phenom X4 GP-7xxx now Phenom 9xxx
Phenom X3 ? now Phenom 7xxx
Phenom X2 GS-6xxx now Athlon 6xxx
Athlon X2 BE-2xxx now unknown
Athlon X2 LS-2xxx now unknown
Athlon LS-2xxx now Athlon LE-1xxx
Sempron LE-1xxx now Sempron LE-1xxx

(Notice how even the link used for this news item doesn't have the X4, get with it techreport!)

Well at least now we can easily figure out the clock speed for the Phenom 9000 series.

2.4 Ghz or 2400 x 4 = 9600.

Sounds like a new "model" it's really just the clock speed times four. Hurray for easy clock speed identifiers.

I wish people would leak prices at the same time as roadmaps.

so we're back to the 9xxx's. this reminds me so much of 2002 with the Radeons. Maybe AMD should drop the FX line and switch to an 'XT' suffix. ;-).

Oops, nevermind.