[citation][nom]mackintire[/nom]Part of the rumor states that the Phenom FX chips will over clock between 4.0-4.4Ghz on iar while using the HT3 interconnect. If that is true then AMD could charge a premium for these chips. Keep in mind that cherry picked 65nm Phenom's from early last year could run 3.0Ghz on air with no issues. So although it sounds far fetched, there could be some truth to the rumors. [/citation]
I proved this was just BS trying to get more hits to their website. Read this thread:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/253181-28-phenom-deneb-core-kentsfield-beater
I looked way into it and 1. The article that was put up on the UK site was taken from a OC screen that was posted on a OCng site and 2. the OC screen from that site itself was photoshopped to make it look like it was at 4GHz when it was not true.
Current Phenoms based on Ageina can only clock to 4GHz with LN2. Deneb may be able to clock higher but in truth I don't think it will get to 4GHz stable and easily.
Core i7 has yet to be tested for gaming on a finished system with finished drivers. The only one site that tested Core i7 for gaming didn't have the drivers installed correctly for the PCIe so it wasn't fully functioning.
Also on that thread I posted a roadmap from AMD and it does show Phenom FX that will be based on the 45nm Deneb core and it will have the FX-80 @ 2.8GHz and the FX-90 @ 3GHz. Problem is we do not know how well it will OC right now and taking current Phenoms as a preface I would think not as much better.
From preliminary info though we can see that Deneb is anywhere from 7-15% faster clock per clock than Ageina Phenoms so that would put it roughly on par with Kentsfield based C2Qs and still a bit behind Yorkfield based C2Qs. Core i7 in multithreaded apps show 2-30% gain in performance clock per clock over Yorkfield and single threaded apps is about 10-15%.