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AMD's latest 45nm 'Deneb' chips or the Phenom II series has just come in. After our brief foray with Intel's Core i7 which raised the performance bar, AMD is looking to up the ante by offering quad cores that can overclock even better. With an overclock speed of 6.3GHz (only achievable with Liquid Nitrogen) and a tougher internal architecture (that can withstand and be more stable with that level of overclocking) the Phenom II processors are set to become major players on the enthusiast scene. Will it be enough to compete against the i7? How will this overclocking performance translate to normal performance? Find out with our indepth review of the Phenom II in the latest issue of HWM. Check out a little view of its standard non-OC PCMark05 Score below: