On the plus side, the newest version of AMD’s Phenom II processor won’t cost you a penny extra over what you’d currently pay for the company’s top-of-the-line CPU, the $245, 3.2-GHz Phenom II X4 955 ...

Where does it fit in? AMD's Phenom range of processors came about in 2007 and suffered a shaky start due to a combination of poor performance and the now-infamous TLB ...

AMD launched five new processors today, expanding it’s Phenom II and Athlon II lines with chips geared towards the budget-conscious Windows 7 user. The chips hover comfortably close to the $100 price ...

Something very very interesting for Phenom II X3 and X2 owners; if the site Playwares.com is to be believe there might be a way to turn your Phenom II X3 or X2 into an X4. According to screen shots it ...

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 800x600, and ...

Advanced Micro Devices could bring DDR3 memory support to Phenom II desktops earlier than it had projected, the company said on Monday. The company aims to add DDR3 support to Phenom II by the middle ...

From AMD’s upcoming chip roadmaps we know the Phenom II is due out early next year, and it’s AMD’s second 45nm chip, but in a recent show and tell session AMD demonstrated the “overhead” built into ...

On the other side of the world in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD announced the launch of two new processors at Computex: the AMD Athlon II X2 250 and the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition. Both dual-core ...

3DMark06's built-in CPU test is a multi-threaded DirectX gaming metric that's useful for comparing relative performance between similarly equipped systems. This test consists of two different 3D ...