Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

There's been industry speculation that the X3 is really a quad-core X4 with one of its cores disabled (either by design or due to a bad core found during QA). An AMD spokesman confirmed that it is, ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

AMD known for its fighting underdog spirit recently relaunched the Phenom with the B3-stepping, which we looked at just recently. The B3-stepping has not exactly breathed new life into the Phenom ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—AMD announced the availability of three AMD Phenom X3 triple-core processors that, when combined with the AMD 780 series chipset, can give consumers a full HD experience and visually ...

Sunnyvale, Calif.—AMD announced the availability of AMD Phenom X3 8000 series triple-core processors, providing gamers and digital media enthusiasts with high performance at mainstream price points.

AMD announced Thursday the release of its triple-core Phenom processors, the X3 8000 series. A first for the PC industry, the triple-core chips are aimed at gamers and digital media enthusiasts for ...

Page 7: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 8: Total System Power Consumption Page 9: Our Summary and Conclusion In our custom LAME MT MP3 encoding test, we convert a large WAV file to the MP3 format, ...

Advanced Micro Devices Inc. recently announced channel availability of three new Phenom triple-core desktop processors as part of its packaging of high-definition computing platforms aimed at both ...

Here's the brief back-story: I'm sitting here with an Athlon 64 system, just under 4 years old as my main rig-- S939, nForce4 motherboard with a 3200+. It was pretty much due for replacement anyway, ...

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