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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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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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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We recently published a news story about a review of a new Phenom II AM3 (DDR3-enabled) processor posted by Tom’s Hardware Taiwan. In the news story, we failed to point out that the processor used by Tom’s was actually the Phenom II X4 810, rather than the Phenom II X4 910, as the article reported. [...]

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Tom’s Hardware Taiwan released a typically terrible first look at Phenom II performance on the AM3 platform. The difference between AM3 and the current AM2+ platform is, understandably, DDR3 support. Of course, the advantage of DDR3 over DDR2 is higher clock speed and subsequently bandwidth. Despite this, Tom’s Hardware thought it would be awesome to [...]

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While they are still a far cry from the top rung on the performance ladder, AMD’s Phenom II processors are not without their strong points. Most significantly over the previous generation of AMD parts, Phenom II is built on the 45nm manufacturing process and can consequently be shipped at higher clock speeds and also overclocked [...]

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