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AMD is allegedly getting ready to launch the Phenom processor on November 19th. Some pricing for a few of the processors have already began leaking online.
The AMD Phenom X4 9500 which has a 95-watt thermal envelope and a 2.2GHz operating frequency should be priced at $280 (retail). The Phenom X4 9600 which runs at 2.3GHz [...]

Expect to see a lot of news about AMD’s Barcelona processor. Today, the information given to all of the media is no longer embargoed.
Check out some of the early news at the following:
PC Perspective - AMD Barcelona Opteron Processor Launch Is Upon Us
PC Perspective - AMD Introduces the World’s Most Advanced x86 Processor
AnandTech: [...]

theInquirer was able to have some time with a Barcelona chip recently. It was paired with 4GB of memory and two Radeon HD 2900XT. The chip ran at 2.5GHz stock and they overclocked it to 3GHz. The two Radeon cards were overclocked to 830MHz for the core and 900MHz for the memory.
When they ran 3DMark06 [...]

AMD Barcelona will be launching on September 10th and a video has shown up on YouTube that appears to be a sales video. The video shows how easy it is to upgrade to the new chip, the video says it only takes 8 minutes.

AMD’s much anticipated Barelona Quad-Core processors will finally be launching on September 10th. AMD has achieved yields as high as they have with their dual-core processors so they expect to have good availability only a few days after the launch party.

The first processors based on Barcelona will be available at 2.0GHz but faster chips will [...]

AMD will be launching Phenom processors in the September/October time frame and there will be several coming out then and in the following months, here is a good list of what we will be seeing.
Phenom X4 GP-7100 - 2.2 to 2.4GHz - 3600MHz HyperTransport 3.0 - 89 Watts
Phenom GP-7000 - 2.0 to 2.2GHz - 3200MHz [...]

Truly an amazing feat. A QX6850 has been overclocked to an astonishing 5133MHz using a EVGA 680i motherboard.
This clock speed was accomplished using liquid nitrogen cooling and bumping the voltage to 1.65v.

VR-Zone

AMD has been working on Barcelona for quite some time now but theInquirer has got some hard dates listed on their websites with clock speeds as well.
They are saying that the first of the Barcelona chips will show up on September 10th, 2 of them to be exact. A 1.9GHz numbered by AMD the 2348 [...]