How long will a 45nm four cores chip last running @ 1.558v?

Third world biscuits ahoy !

Unfortunately, I haven't seen any revisions in the 45nm Phenom that will increase IPC. More Hz, and a die shrink. Did they really think Intel would stick to the NetBurst architecture forever?

Sure, Opteron has the advantage in multi-socket machines at the moment. Except that Nehalem is coming soon, and Nehalem has no FSB. Unless there is some other bottleneck for Intel multi-socket computers that I don't know of...

Wow, a pre-launch AMD ES - that qualifies for "rare as hen's teeth" status. And it's functional? And it runs at a respectable clockspeed? Wow.

Too bad for AMD "Core3" is going to own it.

3.4ghz is staggering?

ANY Core 2 Duo/Quad CPU with go past that with the right cooling :\

Hopefully this finally makes its cores faster per clock than 'ol Conroe. Or Athlon 64 X2 for that matter (in some cases lol!)

I'm not sure that the clock speed is that exciting. Wolfdale/Yorkfield goes way beyond that usually. Wolfdale can frequently do 3.4 on stock volts, from what I've read and set up myself. My old Kentsfield Q6600 can do ~3.2 GHz on stock volts.

To me it looks like AMD is a year behind Intel. 6 months behind in process tech. Decent pricing to match with it though.

Single threaded performance increase!!! Single threaded performance increase!!! Single threaded performance increase!!!
If I say it three times does it come true?

Sweet. The clock speeds AMD fans have been waiting for plus 4 MB additional L3 cache as a bonus.

I'm building a Phenom 9950 box intending to drop in a 45 nm replacement later.

Or maybe sooner if I can't resist.

It's all vapor until it hits the channel, sorry.

Still, a good sign of progress with the CPU/GPU front. Now where is some news on Fusion?

Now if these Phenoms perform as well (relatively) as the HD4800's, then...