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…
Athlon
While the latest and greatest quad-cores are all the rage sometimes you just need a basic chip for those tasks that don’t demand all that much and those situations where you want lower power usage a look at dual-core…
Read more AMD's Athlon II X2 550, CPU on the Cheap
When it comes to processors getting all of the specifications for the chip rarely tells you how it performs in the real world, so while that shiny new chip may share the same pedigree as higher priced models you…
Read more AMD's Athlon II X2 250 CPU, Sort of Phenom Yet Not
AMD’s Athlon lineup was, at one point in time, their flagship consumer processor, that banner was passed along to the Phenom lineup leaving the poor old Athlon brand to take over the low-end processor branding duties.Of course there’s always…
HP’s Pavilion dv2 had been well received as a gradual step up from a netbook yet not quite as powerful as a notebook sort of solution. Its 12.1″ screen size made it a comfortable sub-notebook but now the company…
Read more HP Brings in The Dual Core Athlon Neo, Intros Pavilion dv2z Notebook
Nothing gets the heart going like a brand new processor launch, of course it’s not as impressive when it’s a dual-core chip but we’ll take any excitement we can get. It’s AMD’s turn at trying to rile up enthusiasts…
Read more AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Launched, Reviewed
eMachines is well known for their inexpensive desktop machines, infamously so, but their line of notebooks comes with decent spec sheets and some rather tempting price tags. InsideHW has a look at the eMachines G520 and G620 notebooks and what…
Read more eMachines G520/G620 Notebooks, The Inexpensive Choice
If you weren’t already confused with the multitude of portable computing choices AMD has gummed up the works a bit more with their new “Yukon” platform. It combines a new Athlon Neo CPU, integrated X1250 graphics, and an optional ATI…
Read more AMD Intros Ultrathin Platform, Slides Into The Netbook/Notebook Gap
Here’s a sampling of articles and reviews making news this past week:Cases, Cooling, and Power SuppliesAMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition – TrustedReviewsCoolIT Domino A.L.C. CPU Cooler Review – FuturelooksCore i7 Christmas ’08 Graphics Performance – bit-techIkonik Zaria A20 PC…
Read more Sunday Roundup: December 21st, 2008
In general low-end CPU launches are nothing to get excited about. Sure they have the same feature sets as their cousins above them in the pricing charts but they don’t contain the same performance. In comes AMD’s Athlon X2 7750…
Read more AMD Athlon X2 7750/7550, Phenom Halved
