AMD Phenom With One To Four Cores Compared 2007 wasn't quite a lucky year for AMD. The firm wanted its quad core Phenom processor to compete with Intel's successful Core 2 family, which had run over AMD one and a half years ago by delivering higher performance and better energy efficiency. (Thi...

First Phenom With B3 Stepping The new Phenom CPUs with the bug-free B3 stepping will soon be available. What a sobering year it's been for AMD. Its ray of hope, the Phenom processor with its four CPU cores, dynamic speed and power management and shared L3 cache, was not only released far too l...

Been using the Phenom x4 9950 CPU sent to me by AMD for over a month now and I have been doing some simple benchmarks with it. I thought I’d share some of the results I got. What was originally sent to me was the CPU, a mobo and a video card so I had to build the system from scratch and ...

AMD officially announced the new family name for the 45nm Phenoms and Phenom II, at the firm’s Financial Analyst Day last week. More interestingly, reports have surfaced that AMD has switched to a 3-digit model number scheme from the 4-digit one currently in use. Back in September there were indu...