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, ...

Intel has been manufacturing desktop processors using the 45-nanometre (nm) feature size since November 2007, but it wasn't until over a year later that rival AMD began to distribute chips ...

Page 8: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 9: Power Consumption Page 10: Our Summary and Conclusion Over the course of a few months in late 2007 and early-to-mid 2008, AMD unveiled their Spider platform ...

AMD is launching a brand new flagship desktop processor today, dubbed the Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition. As you can probably surmise from its name--if you're familiar with AMD's naming ...

Although today AMD is announcing just two new processors, rumor has it we can expect a few more new models in the coming months. The Phenom II X6 1090T BE and 1055T processors are based on the ...

Today, AMD released two new six-core processors, the Phenom II X6 1090T and Phenom II X6 1055T. The two AMD processors don't break the bank, but they also don't set any speed records either. The ...

Advanced Micro Devices on Monday released some multicore desktop PC processors that work with a faster memory type, promising a boost in system performance. The ...

As i type away on my quad core processor with its eight threads i can somewhat feel that a bit of light word processing isn’t really pushing its power to the max. Obviously when i need its four cores ...

It looks like AMD is working a little bit harder to appease the overclocking community and have a chip that is supposed to be truly special. (Click the above image for the large version) The TWKR ...

With the release of Intel’s six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, it was only a matter of time before AMD launched their retort: the six core Phenom II X6 1090T. At a glance, it’s apparent ...

AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip? Intel has been manufacturing desktop ...

The key feature setting apart the AMD 890FX from previous generation chipsets such as the 790FX is 6GB/s SATA support, which is provided by the SB850 south bridge. Both support a total of 38 PCIe 2.0 ...