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The first of the three new chips will be the Phenom II X4 955 processor with a clock frequency of 3.2GHz. Certainly, 3.2GHz is nothing to scoff at -- with the release of this new Phenom II X4, the Intel/AMD quad core price-war is going to be elevated yet another little step. The socket AM3 Phenom II X4 955 will have 8MB cache, and will support DDR3-1333. The next parts are dual-core Phenom IIs. AMD is prepping 3.0GHz Phenom II X2 545 and 3.1GHz Phenom II X2 550 processors for launch in mid-May. Both chips will be based on Callisto, which is supposedly the quad-core Deneb die with two cores disabled. So while they are 'only' dual cores, they will benefit from having a good 6MB shared L3 cache, and 512KB of L2 cache for each core. You can expect that these two new dual-core Phenom IIs will be very reasonably priced, as Intel has a slew of high-performing, budget dual-core Core 2 Duo parts on the market. Maybe, with a great deal of luck, some of the cores on these dual-core X2 parts might be able to be unlocked with the right motherboard, like some of the recent X3 chips.

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