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Wednesday, June 9, 2010
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TechwareLabs reviews the energy efficient Athlon II 610e processor from AMD. Does it have what it takes to play with the big boys or were the energy savings drained away from the performance? Read on and find out.
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Tuesday, May 18, 2010
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In terms of performance, the AMD Phenom II X4 960T is right in-line with the expectation of a CPU that is clocked at 3.0GHz with four cores. Where this CPU really shines is when the end-user unlocks the extra two CPU cores on the die and runs this as a 6-core CPU except in the Sisoft Sandra test which is interesting. The extra cores come into play with multi-threaded apps in most cases and It works with a supported motherboard. The benefit of the AMD platform is that while the CPUs are released older motherboards still are generally compatible. Many AM2+ motherboards are certified to work with the new CPUs meaning that all you have to do to install the new CPU is update the BIOS. As the CPU is not available as of yet online I imagine the 960T will retail below the price of the 1055T making it a great competitor against the Core i5-650 CPU. More cores, more performance at the same price.
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"The AMD Athlon II X2 260 is built using the Regor core. The Regor core is a native dual core that uses 45nm technology. This processor sports the new Socket AM3 938-pin micro-PGA package so it will work in all Socket AM3 and AM2 motherboards with both DDR2/DDR3 memory solutions. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 features a nice and low TDP of only 65 Watts, which will make it easy to keep nice and cool. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 isn't going to break any world records when it comes to performance. For a $76.00 processor you can't expect it to. With that being said, it performs admirably. In all of the benchmarks performed today it performed at it's best when running lightly threaded applications..."
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
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Back in October of last year, Athlon introduced its first Athlon II X3 triple-core processors, the 425 and 435. Working with the less than perfect yields from the Deneb and Propus dies, the Rana die was born. As yields improve, the processors can become more stable at higher clock speeds. In January 2010, the Athlon-II X3-440 was released; a 100MHz speed bump on the X3-435 processor. Now AMD is bumping the speed up by another 100MHz with the release of the X3-445 and the X3-450 is slated to come out later on this year. In this article Benchmark Reviews is closely examining the Athlon-II X3-445 ADX445WFK32GM to see what kind of power can be harnessed from this low-priced, triple-core, potentially unlockable 3.1GHz processor, especially when paired with AMDs newest 890G chipset.
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Much attention has been paid of late to AMD's new 6-core desktop CPU, the Phenom II X6 1090T. While its performance is certainly impressive, its price-over $300 at time of publication-can be off-putting to many system builders. For those whose wallets run a bit leaner these days, AMD has brought us the Athlon II X4 640. This quad-core CPU promises good performance at a low price. Let's take a closer look, and see how it stacks up.
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Friday, April 30, 2010
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"It's safe to say that this month we're not expecting a whole lot from the latest driver release for the simple reason being we saw such huge gains from the last two months that it just doesn't makes sense that a whole lot was going to happen this time around.
To be honest, ATI deserve to take a little bit of time off, kick up their heels and have a few beers. In saying that, we still want to see something with the latest driver. Below are the latest improvements AMD makes mention of, but my personal favorite we'll leave ?till we wrap it up! "
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"Earlier this week AMD announced the Phenom II X6 processors
that are designed to offer "unbeatable" performance thanks to its six
physical processing cores while not being priced too high. However,
should you not be interested in the latest high-end CPUs, there still is
a plethora of lower-end AMD parts on the market. One of AMD's low-priced
offerings is the Athlon II X3 425, which is a triple-core AM3 processor
that can easily overclock past 3GHz and is priced to sell at around $70
USD."
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Wednesday, April 28, 2010
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"Today we will be taking a look at the AMD 890FX and Phenom II X6 1090T in a selection of real world tests to find out how it fits into the current marketplace. In addition to this we will also cover some additional 890GX products and a few boards which use the new budget 880G chipset to ensure readers have the full picture when it comes to AMD performance."
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With its Phenom II X6 AMD has its first mainstream six core CPU
in the portfolio which should provide users with quite a lot more
computing power than its predecessors. AMD now also has a Turbo
feature which boosts single threaded applications.
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Wednesday, April 21, 2010
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"AMD is well known for producing a range of good value for money processors which often excel in different areas such as thermal performance and low power draw. Today we are going to look at three of AMDs latest Athlon II CPUs: the X2 255, X3 440 and X4 635 as well as the Phenom II X2 555 CPU on an ECS A795GM-AD3 motherboard to find out what performance AMD offer in the sub $120/£99 market segment."
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Monday, April 12, 2010
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"Last week AMD launched the FirePro V8800, which is their first
workstation graphics card derived from an ATI Evergreen graphics
processor and designed to be a step-up from the previously reviewed
FirePro V8700 and FirePro V8750. The AMD FirePro V8800 features 2GB of
GDDR5 video memory with 147.2 GB/s of bandwidth, 1600 Stream processors,
four DisplayPort outputs, ATI Eyefinity support, DirectX 11.0 / OpenGL
4.0 support, OpenCL 1.0 capable, a full 30-bit display pipeline,
Multi-View display support, and much. We have now carried out our Linux
testing of this new ultra high-end workstation graphics card and have
the results to share this morning."
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Hwbot launched a nice new competition called HWBOT Country cup a while ago. Taking 7 benchmarks over 7 weeks with each new stage, limitations (hardware, benchmark wise) only being announced a few days before the start. As it was a country cup an average of the best 3 submissions would count. Time to regroup instead of going for individual or team benching. Belgium has got very few active OCers left, luckily for OC Team Be we got some support form PC-overware.be team. Stage 5 had Wprime32 as chosen benchmark and the main hardware limitation it had to be run on a single core CPU.
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Monday, March 29, 2010
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In late January 2010, AMD released a new series of processors that fills in some of the gaps in their Athlon-II and Phenom-II Dual, Triple, and Quad-Core Lines. Most of the newly released processors are really just 100MHz clock speed bumps on the old versions. We have also seen the addition of some triple and quad core Athlon-II processors. In this article Benchmark Reviews focuses on the newly released AMD Athlon-II X2-255 AM3 ADX255OCGQBOX processor. Based on the Regor core, the Athlon-II X2-255 has a 3.1GHz clock speed, up 100Mhz from the Athlon-II X2-250 at 3.0GHz which was released last summer. The Athlon-II X2-255 is at the very low end of the newly released processors and represents a value based market at only $75. Benchmark Reviews is going to use the Athlon-II X2-255, with its support for DDR2 RAM up to 1066MHz as well as DDR3 RAM up to 1333MHz, to show some of the great upgrade options available for consumers who have been waiting for! a low-cost option for a better computer system.
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Monday, March 8, 2010
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Dual-core, tri-core or quad-core - the question of the day. If you want ultimate performance, you have to choose quad-core.. ..or do you? Some of the AMD Phenom II X2:s can be unlocked to full X4:s. Let's have a look how our AMD Phenom II X4 555BE performs in tests and can it be unlocked ?
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Wednesday, March 3, 2010
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With AMD's processor line-up as complete as it is, focus has been shifted a bit to the chipset department, and the result is the 890GX. Although it's packed with features, it's surprisingly inexpensive. In addition to introducing the Radeon HD 4290 IGP, it also brings native support for SATA 3.0, improved HD support and much more.
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