A few weeks ago news hit the tubes that a “bug” or “glitch” or what have you in the BIOS of certain AMD 790FX and 790GX motherboards allowed the unintentional unlocking of a magical fourth core on AMD Phenom II X3 processors. After the initial story hit, the community was quick to offer up confirmation [...]

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CeBIT is going on in Hannover, Germany this week and gobs of news is starting to float stateside. AMD’s RV790, which we have not really talked about yet, is apparently due to launch in Q2 09. RV790, as its name would dictate, does not represent an architectural improvement over the RV770, which is the GPU [...]

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We have known for some time that Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600 was approaching its End of Life. Today we have read reports confirming that the chip will cease to be sold come the end of Q2 2009. The Q6600 is far and away the most successful quad-core processor of all time. Despite being released [...]

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First came news that XFX, longtime stalwart of NVIDIA products, would be making extending their business to include AMD graphics boards. Now two more well-established board partners will be churning out AMD cards as well. Albatron and Galaxy, two major manufacturers in Europe and Asia, both recently announced that consumers could be expecting AMD-based graphics [...]

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Over the past few years we have seen several new products fizzle despite their industry-leading performance numbers. While pricing tends to be the primary reason for these disappointments, other factors like reputation and public exposure can also cause lackluster sales figures. However, and especially in today’s economy, products are more likely to suffer in the [...]

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We previously reported and re-reported on a few details of AMD’s new Phenom II AM3 processors. These parts are more or less identical to their existing Phenom II AM2+ counterparts with added support for DDR3. Well, it turns out we were actually kinda wrong about some of those details. Today AMD made everything official. First [...]

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