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by Rafael Hernandez on October 30, 2009 · 0 comments

It might be chic to be green in order to save Earth and all of that feel-good stuff but, when you take a look at your wallet, there are real monetary benefits for going with hardware that doesn’t consume power like mad. Do you really need that quad core when the system is mostly stuck […]

Read more AMD Athlon II X2 240e wants you to save some energy

by Rafael Hernandez on October 5, 2009 · 0 comments

Computer processors can be an expensive proposition to make as the demands of power users force the chip makers to come up with designs that use more and more die-grabbing cache to feed the increasing core counts. The bigger the chip die the more it will cost….

Read more AMD Athlon II X4 620, slimming down the quad core

by Rafael Hernandez on September 16, 2009 · 0 comments

As with most technologies the more time passes the cheaper things tend to get, for some products that day can’t seem to come around soon enough but when the day finally arrives it’s about as sweet as any other for…

Read more AMD Athlon II X4 620, quad core goes budget

by Rafael Hernandez on June 21, 2009 · 0 comments

AMD’s Phenom II CPU lineup brought the company some much needed attention at a time when the competition was trouncing them in every benchmark imaginable. Well they’re still doing that but at least they’re producing a chip that can hold…

Read more AMD's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition CPU, Cheap Greased Lightning