the fact that a processor could overclock to as much as 100% of its stock frequency by using air cooling alone. But back then, AMD had only the K8

20 April 2007 AMD Logo www.amd.com By: Dan Frincu, Hardware Editor AMDs Agena Processor is a Serious Overclocker The era of overclocking has begun When Intel came forth with the Core microarchitecture, everybody was simply delighted at the fact that a processor could overclock to as much as 100% of its stock frequency by using air cooling alone. But back then, AMD had only the K8 architecture to show off and people were already aware of what its capabilities were. So Intel got almost 90% of the x86 processo
market, while AMD was left with a trail of breadcrumbs to help them get back on their way. But then the dreaded K10 microarchitecture came, bound to take the bull by the hor
and shake things up a little bit. As far as speculatio
go, there were a lot of them made on this subject, but it seems that the guys from Fudzilla.com got their hands on an Agena processor and took it for a severe regime

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