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The triple core Phenom on its way
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Written by Nicolas Gridelet
Published on March 13, 2008

URL: http://www.behardware.com/news/lire/13-03-2008/#9491

AMD has announced having carried out the first deliveries of its triple core Phenom. Dell and Hewlett Packard should therefore soon offer PCs equipped with this CPU, the Optilex 740 and AL195AW.

In both cases, they are destined for office PC s, characteristic of the Optilex and "Бизнес" (biznes) product lines. They are equipped with an L2 cache of 1.5 MB and an L3 cache of 2 MB. HP confirms the frequency of the Phenom 8600 at 2.3 GHz.

In terms of performances, the missing core compared to the Phenom 9xxx should not be felt too much in games for some time; however, there could be an impact in strongly multi-threaded applications. Finally, these processors are still based on the B2 revision and are therefore affected by the TLB bug.