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by Rafael Hernandez on September 24, 2010 · 0 comments

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An under-served market leads to all sorts of opportunities for somebody to swoop in and grab themselves a sizable chunk of any industry which is exactly what AMD did when they saw some gaps in the CPU market between the mid-range and insanely high end processor choices so they rolled out a handful of new […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on May 11, 2010 · 0 comments

The benefits of processor binning are in full effect allowing a good chunk of AMD’s chips to leak into the X3 and X2 classification with mighty impressive clock speeds and the chance of so much more. The AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor sports a 3.1GHz clock speed and the random possibility of that lucky […]

Read more AMD Athlon II X3 445 Processor bumps up the clock speeds

by Rafael Hernandez on May 3, 2010 · 0 comments

Many computing tasks are making good use of the extra cores found in processors today, unfortunately some of the tasks that require brute force to work through can’t exactly be parallelized. Thankfully the AMD Phenom II X6 1090T has that covered by offering six cores and a Turbo CORE technique which will push clock rates […]

Read more AMD Phenom II X6 1090T rocks more cores and gentle clocking

by Rafael Hernandez on April 29, 2010 · 0 comments

While creating a budget build is getting quite a bit easier due to the natural drop in pricing over time but that just increases the number of options you have to consider. Aren’t purchase decisions grand? The AMD Athlon II X3 440 3GHz processor makes a good case with its highly clocked triple core setup […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on April 27, 2010 · 0 comments

The gradual onward march of technology is invariably going to bring use even more processing power  which, as of late, has meant added cores and automated overclocking to speed up those not-so-multi-threaded tasks. The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T Black Edition processors slot into your favorite AM2+ or AM3 socket motherboards, which will […]

Read more AMD Phenom II X6 1055T and 1090T brings you six cores on the cheap

by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2010 · 0 comments

Dropping tons of money on a new PC doesn’t make sense in every case and budget constraints likely keep most builds on the sane side. A cheaper CPU might just let you splurge on extra memory or better graphics card for that added performance. The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is one such processor offering […]

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by Rafael Hernandez on March 29, 2010 · 0 comments

The inevitable future for the computer processor is the addition of more and more cores to improve performance for those tasks that are highly parallelizable or just enjoy warming up a datacenter as quickly as possible. AMD’s Opteron 6174 “Magny-Cours” processor is a parallelized application’s dream with 12 cores to play with and some tweaks […]

Read more AMD Opteron 6174 Processor packs 12 cores of crunching power

by Rafael Hernandez on March 25, 2010 · 0 comments

AMD’s performance line Black Edition processors are best known for their “unlocked” cores that allow for fine-grain tweaking that the overclockers are sure to love…of course there are those that want more out of their processors. The AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition CPU may just allow for some core unlocking that will push […]

Read more AMD Phenom II X2 555 Black Edition CPU presents intriguing tweaking possibilities