It will be a long 8 month wait for the next generation of processors from AMD; not long at all for the current generation.  The AMD Phenom II X4 955 is here, with a core clock of 3.2 GHz and an uncore of 2.0GHz.  The slower speeds on the uncore in previous models have been bothering Josh as he feels a bump in speed there will give some serious boosts in speed across the board.  Was he right?  Find out in his full review of the X4 955.


“While the Phenom II processors are not entirely competitive with the i7 cores, AMD has certainly been executing at a very high level as of late. Considering that the Phenom II is actually a larger chip in terms of die size and transistor count than the i7, we catch a glimpse of how really impressive the i7 is.”

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