Just before CES 2009, AMD communicated any part of the overclocking capabilities of its very consistent Phenom II. We have seen in Las Vegas this processor than the 6.5 GHz mark, a first time for a quad-core. Intel could not really play on that field, even if the giant Santa Clara fought back well with the performance. After a while the 2010 edition of these approaches, the situation is completely reversed.

Since April, the maximum frequency reached on Phenom II has not budged, while the recently launched Intel Core i3, i5, and Pentium are Clarkdale to the party. The bar 7 GHz has thus been taken, with the Core i5-670, which already held the previous record. Tension has been pushed cons to 2.1 volts! Even if this processor has two cores, the burn process to 32 nanometers promises to be very promising, it is recalled that the Core i7-980X Gulftown, 6 hearts, has already exceeded 6 GHz.