More AMD rumors. Yesterday AMD sent out a nice little email to their channel partners detailing some upcoming products that will be detailed more thoroughly on September 1.  The first bit of info is that an updated version of the Phenom 9950 is going to be released, and the big news about this is that the TDP has been dropped from 140 watts to a much more palatable 125 watts.  I have a sneaking suspicion that the 9950 that AMD sent me with the 790GX motherboard is one of these 125 watt processors, because at full bore it is approximately 64 watts higher in power at the socket than the 9350e (which is a 65 watt processor) on an identical system.  This is good news for AMD, as their top end processor is now easier to get a motherboard for.  It also should give a little bit more headroom for overclocking.  AMD’s 65 nm process has certainly had an interesting history, and they have certainly refined it enough to make their quad core parts a lot less power hungry than they initially were.

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