Comments for: Low-power Phenom, Athlon specs leak out

#9. Posted at 06:28 PM on Jan 18th 2008, Edited at 06:30 PM on Jan 18th 2008

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accord1999

Still badly outclassed by the Harpertowns in performance/watt, this low power Phenom is basically like a LV 90nm Xeon. Reasonable power consumption compared to its siblings but still poor when compared to its competition.

#9, Perhaps. But if the price is right, and having the best perf... : FubbHead (#13) «

#3. Posted at 03:56 PM on Jan 18th 2008

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IntelMole

I don't think I'd consider a chip with a 65 TDP particularly low power.

Especially when every Core 2 Duo except the extreme line has a TDP around that level.

#3, Keep in mind though that the Phenom chips have four cores co... : soccergenius (#4) «

#4, Ah, good point. If it is a quad core chip, that is pretty... : IntelMole (#5) «

#4, Exactly, which is why I mentioned blades and HP. The abil... : UberGerbil (#6) «

#6, God, I hate HP's Big Deals page. : DASQ (#12) «

#1. Posted at 02:35 PM on Jan 18th 2008

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UberGerbil

Well, it's no laptop chip but HP and the other blade vendors should be happy. I wonder if they'll all just wait for the B3 version, however.

(And yeah, I'm sure somebody will stuff it into a DTR luggable anyway).

#1, why on earth are they coming up with more versions of pre-B3... : cygnus1 (#2) «

#2, What I'd wish they'd do is offer a trade in program. So y... : dlenmn (#7) «

#7, There shouldn't be effected by the TLB fix for a diffe... : dragmor (#8) «

#8, Even if the error doesn't show up on these chips, i... : dlenmn (#11) «

#2, They're not. They're binning existing chips. This is most l... : Voldenuit (#10) «