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 ...

When it launched in early January, Phenom II's sole purpose, its raison d'?tre, was to rejuvenate AMD's ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, ...

Page 8: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 9: Power Consumption Page 10: Our Summary and Conclusion Over the course of a few months in late 2007 and early-to-mid 2008, AMD unveiled their Spider platform ...

AMD has had a rocky start to its latest architectural update. K10 has had its major downs, suffering right from the start with the TLB bug in the B1 and B2 stepping cores. When they were first ...

Towards the beginning of this year (during CES to be exact), AMD launched their highly-anticipated Phenom II processors, which at the time included only the X4 940 and X4 920. Prior to launch, we all ...

Way back in November of 2007, AMD unveiled all of the components of the "Spider" platform, which consisted of a Phenom processor, 700-series chipset-based motherboard, and Radeon HD 3800 series ...

We test all currently available Phenoms, from the 9600 Black Edition to the yet unreleased 9700 and 9900 models. While Intel has been quick to regain a lot of the popularity lost during the past few ...

AMD is launching a new CPU today. The premise behind the release rests with the chip company needing to eke out every last penny of revenue from the Phenom II line of processors that are fundamentally ...

The numbers show that AMD is simply increasing the multiplier on the Phenom II X6 chips from 16x on the 1090T to 16.5x on the 'new' 1100T BE. This clock-bump is an obvious move when yields at the ...

With the release of Intel’s six-core Core i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, it was only a matter of time before AMD launched their retort: the six core Phenom II X6 1090T. At a glance, it’s apparent ...

Phenom II 955 Black Edition is AMD's newest processor on the block. It is based around the same K10 architecture that all the other Phenom processors are based on. Using the 45nm wafer design, AMD is ...

When AMD launched their long-awaited AM3-based processors last month, the X3 720 and X4 810, one thing was lacking… a high-end Quad-Core part. On the AM2+ side, we’ve had the X4 940 since Phenom II’s ...