In what could be the last gasp for AMD's generally uninspiring K10 architecture before bulldozer-ahem-bulldozes its way through, AMD has released its fastest quad -core desktop chip yet. The phenom ii x4 980 Black edition is clocked at 3.7GHz, features a 6mb shared pool of level 3 cache and has TDP of 125W. As it's a Black edition chip, it also has an unlocked CPU multiplier, which provides more flexibility when overclocking.
