AMD had to overcome a few hiccups in the initial Phenom launch and revisit its pricing to stay competitive with Intel in the Core 2 era, but AMD’s back in the game with the new Phenom II processor. It ...

AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks on the their next PC build. The new processors differ from previous ...

When AMD launched their long-awaited AM3-based processors last month, the X3 720 and X4 810, one thing was lacking… a high-end Quad-Core part. On the AM2+ side, we’ve had the X4 940 since Phenom II’s ...

In an attempt to put AMD's fastest quad-core processor on the market, they release the Phenom II X4 975, which comes with a very high 3.6 GHz clock frequency, that's right 3600 MHz (!) as a default ...

Last month, AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor line-up, and with it ushered in the first desktop processors built using the company's 45nm process node. While the first two Phenom II processors ...

Of course there is also level 1 cache which is 128KB x4 (64KB Instruction + 64KB data cache for each core). We are now at a stage where we can say, this really wasn't a tick-tock update was it? As you ...

AMD started shipping the Phenom II X4 earlier this year and will now refresh the lineup with two new processors: the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition and Phenom II X4 945. Both processors are modestly ...

As was increasingly expected, AMD has officially updated its Phenom II processor line with two new, slightly faster CPUs. The unlocked 3.2 GHz Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (about $245) supports ...

Use left and right arrow keys to seek audio. AMD has been around for a long time in one form or another. When I first started working with AMD CPUs they were making 2x86 CPUs under license from Intel.

When it launched in early January, Phenom II’s sole purpose, its raison d’?tre, was to rejuvenate AMD’s ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, ...

I cannot recall when was the last time we were able to write an overclocking article based on an AMD processor (thank you, archive). Since the demise of the Athlon64 architecture there hasn't been ...

Towards the beginning of this year (during CES to be exact), AMD launched their highly-anticipated Phenom II processors, which at the time included only the X4 940 and X4 920. Prior to launch, we all ...