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Most of you enthusiast are probably aware of AMD secret weapon, well if your not then here’s the low down. AMD are well behind the processor race against Intel. Lets slightly changes the subject here, AMD were going to release a dual core Phenom back in May. This never occurred due to the aggressive pricing of their current Phenom three and four core processors. AMD are yet to release their 45nm process CPU’s these are not ready until lat quard of 08 may be start of 09. Intel would of already released their Nehalem based architecture.

AMD released some information regarding their Phenom processors and southbridge chipset. AMD needed to get back into the game with some competitive edge against Intel. The company will be releasing some new versions of the Phenom processor which are begged to be over-clocked.

The Southbridge SB700 and SB750 chips will support multiplier unlocking and can overclock the processor at any point, maybe not half way through a game of Crysis but within reason. The processors will be able to be over-clocked by 400mhz with the chips running at 2.8Ghz at default.

As previously stated AMD will need to bring out newer versions of the Phenom processor. This is because the processor must have a certain pin configuration for the over-clocking capabilities not to mention the matching Chipset!
For all those AMD Fans out there, the Mainboards with 780G 790FX and 790GX chipsets will allow users to over-clock via the Southbridge with BIOS setting. Some enthusiast boards will incorporate a hardware button for instant performance increases

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