The enthusiast set tends to zero in on the products that give them the most bang for the buck, they also tend to take things to the extreme which can lead to those products failing mighty quickly so saving a…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU, from boxed chip to Overclocked in Record Time
AMD has had a rough time at the high-end of the processor market. The company hasn’t had an answer to Intel’s Core i7 lineup but that’s ok with them as they’re putting up a good battle with the high-end Core…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Launched, Bumping the Clock Rates
While the outright processor performance tests will heavily favor Intel’s latest and greatest CPU when it comes to gaming things aren’t so clear cut. Many of today’s latest titles depend more on the graphics card in order to achieve higher…
Read more AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7, Gaming Value Tested
Distributed computing is a fancy term for splitting up computing work between internet capable computers. It’s not a new technique as distributed.net and seti@home can attest to and it harnesses the processors in millions of home systems today.In fact SETI@home…
Facebook, everyone’s favorite social network, have a bit of an issue with Intel and AMD. They aren’t seeing quite the performance benefits that the two companies tout for their products when they use the new platforms in their massive server…
Read more AMD Begs to Differ With Facebook, Thinks Chips Perform Well
The general rule of thumb has been that the more cores you add to a processor the more energy it will use up, just don’t clue AMD in on that fact. The company has released a batch of four…
Read more AMD Goes Energy Friendly With Their Six-Core Opterons
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
Processor launches are a funny thing. There’s a whole lot of hoopla over the high end chips with all manner of benchmarks and quotes on how their latest product will make things run faster, cooler, and improve your Crysis…
Read more AMD's "Suzuka" Opterons Demand Attention
Nvidia is on a bit of a roll after securing themselves a nice design win with their Tegra system-on-a-chip processor made its way into Microsoft’s Zune HD and now TheStreet.com has word on at least one major cellphone/smartphone vendor…
Read more Nvidia Tegra to Appear In Smartphones
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
