AMD's Phenom II processor is designed to boost the company's presence in the desktop market. But how does it fare against Intel's latest Core i7 (Nehalem) chip? Intel has been manufacturing desktop ...

On the plus side, the newest version of AMD’s Phenom II processor won’t cost you a penny extra over what you’d currently pay for the company’s top-of-the-line CPU, the $245, 3.2-GHz Phenom II X4 955 ...

We'd like to cover a few final data points before bringing this article to a close. Throughout all of our benchmarking and testing, we monitored how much power our test systems consumed using a power ...

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A team of engineers has successfully overclocked a 3.2Ghz AMD processor to run at over twice its original speed. The processor, a Phenom II 955 Black Edition, was successfully overclocked by a group ...

On the other side of the world in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD announced the launch of two new processors at Computex: the AMD Athlon II X2 250 and the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition. Both dual-core ...

eSpeaks' Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Intel has been manufacturing desktop processors using the 45-nanometre (nm) feature size since November 2007, but it wasn't until over a year later that rival AMD began to distribute chips ...

For our next set of tests, we moved on to some in-game benchmarking with Crysis and Enemy Territory: Quake Wars. When testing processors with Crysis or ET:QW, we drop the resolution to 800x600, and ...