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'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 ...

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 ...

The story sounds familiar: Intel hits a new milestone in nanometer architecture, and AMD waits a while to follow up. It happened with 65nm processors, and it’s happening again now. Two days shy of a ...

AMD has today unveiled the much-speculated Phenom II X4 955 Black version CPU, an upgrade of current socket AM2+ performance Quad-core processors with similar 45nm fabrication, 8MB cache (2MB L2 + 6MB ...

Within the enthusiast scene, there exists an elite group of overclockers who push the limits of hardware to the breaking point. With the help of phase change coolers, dry ice, liquid nitrogen and even ...

You know those hexa-core Phenom II processors AMD has in store? Well, it seems they've already filtered through to the Asian marketplace and Chinese users are doing exactly what you'd expect - ...

Ever since the beginning of time, there have been competitors within the computer industry, and without them it would fall straight on its backside. That’s why we (review sites) encourage a bit of ...

Destiny 2 launched on PC today, and for most players it's been a pretty pleasant experience. Despite heavy server load, people have been able to sign in and get playing quickly, and it's been a pretty ...

AMD introduced the Phenom processor architecture in November 2007 with the release of chips with four internal processor cores, known as quad-core processors. These chips took the best of the ...

A Closer Look Like the other Phenom II X2 series of processors the Phenom II X2 560 Black Edition is sold as a dual core processor but is actually a quad core processor with two cores disabled. The ...

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 ...