If we’re honest, we’re a little bored with the top end of the CPU market. Intel’s LGA1366 socket dominates anything that AMD can throw at it and while that’s good for Intel, it’s not particularly ...

To continue the tradition of offering an incredibly wide selection of value-driven parts, AMD last month added five new models to its line-up, consisting of three Athlon II’s and two Phenom II’s. Some ...

AMD has not had the greatest acceptance of the K10 architecture, especially when released and the TLB bug that caused the L3 cache to become completely useless reared its ugly head. This is now a ...

AMD is launching a half dozen new processors today, targeted at virtually all market segments, ranging from an inexpensive, mainstream dual-core Athlon II offering to a new, relatively high-end ...

The AMD Athlon II X4 640 ($99.99 list) is a 3.0GHz, quad-core processor with support for 64-bit computing and virtualization, and includes both a heatsink and fan among other features. The chip also ...

AMD has been around for a long time in one form or another. When I first started working with AMD CPUs they were making 2x86 CPUs under license from Intel. Not too long after that they bought up a ...

AMD is inch by inch paving the way in CPU land with a bucket load of multi-core processors aimed at the mainstream segment. A little while ago they released their series X4 and X2 (Quad and Dual core) ...

The X4 645 got off to an excellent start in our testing as its stock score of 11,837 in Cinebench R10 was way ahead of the Athlon II X3 455 and the Pentium G6950 at stock speeds. This result was ...

AMD is launching a bevy of new processors today, targeted squarely at budget conscious consumers, looking to save a few bucks on the their next PC build. The new processors differ from previous ...

It is not exactly a secret that Intel dominates the high-end processor market with their Core i7 series of processors. It isn't a secret either that AMD will address any market share below that Core ...

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If it's maximum multi-threaded throughput for minimum cash, take it from us, the Athlon II X4 620 is definitely your bag. For starters, in highly threaded software such as video encoding and ...