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 ...

What you'll notice with the new Athlon II X4 processors is that the architecture (based on the Propus core) shows a lot of similarities to Phenom II, and of course that was the building block for this ...

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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 ...

For those that do not know me, my name is Deanzo. I am an extreme overclocker from New Zealand who competes in online and live global competitions hosted by the likes of GIGABYTE and MSI. What that ...

AMD has been attacking the mainstream PC segment lately with a slew of modestly priced processors and chipsets. The attack started with the new Athlon II X2 value processors back in June, which were a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking at the graph above one could infer that Microsoft Excel 2007 is not quad-core optimized, as the Athlon II X4 620 was clearly inferior than the Phenom II X2 550 in this test. That said, the ...

The ageing nature of AMD's CPU architecture has its downsides, but there are also benefits for anyone hoping to build a decent rig on a tight budget. The AMD Athlon II X4 645 is a quad-core chip based ...

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 ...