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Sapphire Adds New AM3-Ready Motherboard

If you have set your mind on upgrading your desktop computer rig with the latest Phenom II processors, recently released by AMD, you might want to take into consideration one of the latest motherboard releases from Sapphire. The company has just announced the latest addition to its AM3-supporting motherboard lineup, ...

2 February 2009
06:20 GMT

Phenom II Breaks 6.5GHz, Enables New 3DMark Record

Prior to the official release of AMD's next-generation 45nm Phenom II processors, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker held a number of events where it approached the opportunity of demonstrating the overclocking potential of its latest desktop processors. Soon after their official release at the Consumer ...

26 January 2009
12:00 GMT

Gigabyte Now Ready to Embrace AMD's Dragon

AMD has certainly raised the interest of those who attended this year's International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Nevada as the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker announced its latest Dragon platform, designed to combine the company's latest 45nm processors with its HD4000-series Radeon grap...

22 January 2009
06:52 GMT

MSI Adds Gaming-Ready Mobos for AMD Phenom II CPUs

MSI, one of the world's leading manufacturers of computer motherboards, announced today two new mobos designed to provide gaming enthusiasts with the necessary power and features required by today's PC gaming applications. The company's new motherboards have been specifically designed to take advantage...

22 January 2009
06:18 GMT

AMD Already Adjusts Phenom II Pricing

Approximately one week after AMD officially introduced its latest generation of desktop computer processors, designed to take advantage of the company's new 45nm process technology, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has just cut the prices of its new Phenom II CPUs. The company has slashed prices by 17 ...

20 January 2009
06:50 GMT

AMD Unleashes Dragon, Touts Performance for Under US$900

With the launch of the new and highly-anticipated next generation of desktop processors from AMD, the company has also introduced a new desktop platform, codenamed the Dragon. Rumored since as early back as the first Phenom II leaked details surfaced, the new platform has been designed to provide its users with an al...

8 January 2009
05:35 GMT

AMD Launches Phenom II X4 940 and 920

After much anticipation and a series of leaked details running on the Internet, the Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker has finally seen it fit to officially introduce its next generation of desktop computer processors. Designed on a 45nm process technology, the new desktop-tailored CPUs have been dubbed Phenom II...

8 January 2009
04:35 GMT

AMD to Update Business Class Desktop CPUs in 3Q09

Sunnyvale, California-based AMD is expected to unveil a new range of desktop processors, coming to provide its customers with the performance of the new Phenom II desktop CPUs, designed on the 45nm process technology. However, sources in the industry are already claiming that the chip maker will also be refreshing it...

5 January 2009
09:50 GMT

AMD to Launch Dragon at CES 2009

Advanced Micro Devices is known to plan on launching its 45nm Phenom II processors at CES 2009, which is set to take place between January 8th and January 11th in Las Vegas. At about the same time the chip manufacturer is reported to also launch its entire Dragon platform. According to news on the web, the Sunnyvale ...

30 December 2008
08:29 GMT

ASRock AM3 Motherboard Pictured

Last week, ECS was the first to announce a new AM3 motherboard, coming to support the upcoming range of Phenom II processors, due to be released by Advanced Micro in early 2009. It now appears that yet another motherboard maker is also ready with its AM3 mobo, more specifically ASRock. The company's M3A790GXH/12...

29 December 2008
06:05 GMT

Phenom II Chips Already Listed, AMD Kills Older CPUs

According to the latest news on the web, Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Phenom II processors have already appeared at online retailers, although the company has not officially introduced them yet. The new Phenom II X4 920, which runs at 2.8GHz and the Phenom II X4 940 running at 3GHz are displayed at prices ra...

28 December 2008
03:42 GMT

ECS Jumps the Gun, Announces AM3 Phenom II-Ready Mobo

Reports are in, claiming that ECS, a leading manufacturer of computer motherboards, has just announced its first AM3 Phenom II X4 DDR3 motherboard. In this context, the company is the first to introduce a new motherboard that comes to fully support AMD's next-generation Phenom processors, known as the Phenom II....

23 December 2008
07:53 GMT

AMD Powered Computer Gifted to Viswanathan Anand

The world’s best chess player, Grand Master Viswanathan Anand, was honored today by Advanced Micro Devices with a top-of-the-line gaming machine including the best quad-core Phenom processor, as well as the ATI Radeon 4870×2 graphics card, a 1 tera flop capable part. The computer sports a futuristic looki...

23 December 2008
06:47 GMT

AMD Phenom II Available for Distributors in December

According to the latest news on the web, Advanced Micro Devices will make its upcoming Phenom II Deneb-based processor available for distributors in the last days of this year. Moreover, it seems that the Phenom II 940 at 3GHz and Phenom II 920 at 2.8GHz will start selling in the week beginning on December 29th. The ...

23 December 2008
06:21 GMT

Details on AMD 880G Chipset Emerge

The next-generation of processors from Advanced Micro Devices, namely Athlon X4, Phenom II X3 and Phenom II X4, have already been announced to receive a new chipset from the company at a certain point in the second half of the next year. To be more precise, the part will be an AM3 chipset, manufactured under the 55nm...

15 December 2008
06:02 GMT

AMD Phenom II Offers 20 Percent Performance Gains

This year is almost over, and 2009 will bring to the table the latest innovations from Advanced Micro Devices in the form of the next-generation Phenom II processors. In only about three weeks from now, we'll be able to actually get our hands on the highest performing micro-processor AMD has ever created. T...

15 December 2008
05:17 GMT

AMD Says Phenom II Will Launch on January 8th

According to the latest news on the web, the Sunnyvale-based chip manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices has announced once again that the actual release date of its next-generation Phenom II processors is set to be January 8th. The company also said that the long-awaited parts would become available on the same day. &l...

11 December 2008
03:47 GMT

DDR3 Phenoms Could Boost Performance by 5 Percent

It seems that Advanced Micro Devices' upcoming Phenom II processors, which will come with DDR3 and AM3 socket support, are able to boost the overall performance of the computer with almost 5 percent. Of course, this is something that was to be expected, as most DDR3 platforms are able to run a little faster. Eve...

8 December 2008
11:53 GMT

Quad-Core Phenom II Comes in December

According to the latest news on the web, Advanced Micro Devices’ next-generation Deneb-based Phenom II microprocessors are slated for a December launch. To be more precise, the chips are said to be starting shipping on December 20 in the United States, while arriving two days earlier in Europe, on the 18th. As ...

8 December 2008
02:45 GMT

Deneb's Multimedia Performance Tested

According to the latest news on the web, Advanced Micro Devices’ upcoming Deneb processor is able to outperform Intel's Core 2 Quad processors in both gaming and multimedia performance, at times by more than 20 percent. AMD has released a document showing the performance levels of its Phenom II chips, incl...

4 December 2008
05:04 GMT

ECS Lists Its AM3 CPU Compatible Mobos

The Advanced Micro Devices Deneb processor, or Phenom II, as we have learned that the company will officially name the part, is almost here, and it promises a lot in terms of performance gains and overclocking capabilities. To make the new CPU more appealing to users, the Sunnyvale chip maker decided to make it compa...

1 December 2008
04:31 GMT

Details Emerge on Upcoming AMD Phenom II Processors

AMD is expected to unveil its next-generation desktop processors in early 2009, when the company will introduce its first 45nm-based chips for the consumer market. These new chips will make up the company's new Phenom II range of consumer-grade processor lineup, providing higher levels of performance as compared...

1 December 2008
04:20 GMT

Phenom II X4 Processors Listed

As it is the case with almost every soon-to-be unveiled hardware product, details on AMD's next-generation desktop processors, the Phenom II X4 CPUs, have also leaked on the Internet recently, as they were listed on the web page of an Australian online retailer. The listed models were soon taken down, but lucki...

27 November 2008
11:33 GMT

No L3 Cache for Propus, Deneb to Fight Core 2

The latest news on the Web points to the fact that Advanced Micro Device's upcoming Propus processor, a quad core chip, will not feature L3 cache. It seems that the Sunnyvale team plans to put some distance between its next-to-come Deneb CPUs, which will sport 4x512KB L2 and 6MB L3 cache, and will disable L3 cac...

26 November 2008
02:54 GMT

AMD Phenom II X4 Goes 6.3GHz

Advanced Micro Device's upcoming Phenom II X4 processor keeps on surprising us these days with its overclocking capabilities. Only a few days ago it was reported to enter POST while clocked over 5GHz; this time we learn that it has managed to reach 6.3GHz while remaining stable. It seems that the company wanted ...

25 November 2008
10:33 GMT

Phenom II X4 940 Tested on Crysis

It looks like AMD's upcoming Phenom II X4 processors just keep showing up in the news, as we are getting closer to their official introduction in the first quarter of 2009. According to the most recent details, AMD's yet-to-be unveiled 45nm quad-core processors are expected to deliver an impressive gaming ...

25 November 2008
07:05 GMT

AMD Brings DDR3 Support to Phenom II Earlier

Advanced Micro Devices announced on Monday that it might bring DDR3 support to its upcoming Phenom II desktop processor earlier than previously expected. John Taylor, an AMD spokesman, said that the Sunnyvale chip maker aims at bringing the DDR3 support to its next to come Phenom II chips by mid-2009, but added that,...

25 November 2008
04:08 GMT

AMD Dragon Platform Logo Spotted

The latest news on the web reveals a few more details on AMD's forthcoming Dragon platform, the logo it will bear, to be more precise. The logo for the company's platform shows a dark dragon with red glowing eyes holding the AMD Fusion badge. Moreover, the news also unveils the slogan the company will use f...

24 November 2008
03:17 GMT

AMD Phenom II Breaks 5GHz

It looks like Intel's highly anticipated Core i7 processor, the Nehalem-based consumer CPU that is currently touted as the world's fastest central processing unit, will soon get a run for its money, as Intel's archrival, Sunnyvale-based AMD, will release its second generation desktop processors, the Sh...

21 November 2008
03:24 GMT

Upcoming AMD Phenoms to Be Called Phenom II

The Sunnyvale, California-based chip maker Advanced Micro Devices is currently planning the release of its highly anticipated Deneb processors, which will mark the company's first 45nm-based consumer desktop CPUs. The new processors are expected to significantly improve performance, as they are built on the rec...

19 November 2008
06:31 GMT

Details on AMD Dragon Platform Surface

The recently unveiled Advanced Micro Devices’ roadmap showed us that the chip manufacturer plans to release a number of new platforms next year, and that one of these platforms is code-named Dragon. The Sunnyvale company has already tried to bring to the market a similar platform, called Spider, which consisted...

19 November 2008
05:01 GMT


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