Soleron on 19 January 2009
Well, Phenom II is competitive on price and performance with the Core 2s - the 940 is a better choice than the Q9400 and the 920 over the Q8300.
The launch of Socket AM3 stuff should boost that, because they're bumping the clock speed to 3.1GHz, adding DDR3 memory and raising the northbridge/HT clock. That should make it rival the Q9550.
Basically they need to survive until Bulldozer in 2011. I don't see how deneb will be competitive all of that time, what with mainstream Nehalem in Q3, 32nm Nehalem "Westmere" in Q4 and Sandy Bridge in 2010.
