With competition from Gateway and HP, affordable gaming boxes are becoming all the rage and Dell has every intention of participating. The OEM has just launched the XPS 625, a sub-$1000 desktop with a modest spec sheet. Dell, a longtime lover of Intel, turns to AMD this time around. The affair breathes hot and heavy with AMD's Dragon platform, including configuration options of the fresh out of the oven Phenom II X4 940 Black Edition processor (3.0GHz), dual ATI Radeon HD 4850 graphics cards, up to 8GB of memory, a10K RMP hard drive (interestingly this can only be added as an "additional hard drive"), and Windows Vista 64-bit. Dell says the entire system is overclockable through AMD's performance tuning software, and as just configured, it's all going to cost a shade over $2000. To keep things under a grand, the XPS 625's base configuration consists of an AMD Athlon X2 5600+ Black Edition processor (2.9GHz), 2GB of DDR2-800 RAM, 500GB hard drive, ATI Radeon 4670 videocard, DVD burner, ...
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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review - Not the Second Coming
pcper.com 1/8/2009 — AMD is unleashing its first 45 nm processor, and while it is a large step in the right direction, AMD still has a tough mountain to climb to compete with Intel and their Core 2 Quad and i7 processors. While the Phenom II is not a world beater, it ...
AMD Phenom II Review
icrontic.com 1/8/2009 — It’s been a little over a year since the original launch of the AMD Phenom processor. We really do wish that we can say “It took the market by storm” when it was released back in November of 2007, but unfortunately, we can’t. The original Phenom ...
Dell introduces XPS 625 gaming rig
engadget.com 1/9/2009 —
Dell has been pretty laptop-heavy at CES so far, but it looks to be balancing things out a bit today, with it introducing its new gamer-minded XPS 625 desktop. This one is AMD through and through, and includes your choice of AMD Phenom or Phenom ...
X58 Motherboard Round-Up January 09 - Introduction
driverheaven.net 1/9/2009 — In November last year Intel released their Core i7 range of CPUs along with the X58 chipset and as we demonstrated in our original review the platform is very impressive. Last month we took a look at a selection of boards which were released around ...
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amd.com 1/9/2009 — AMD Supercomputer To Deliver Next-Generation Games and Applications Entirely Through the Cloud — Industry-leading CPU and graphics processing technologies in “AMD Fusion Render Cloud” designed to drive a revolution in content delivery and development ...
AMD Unleashes the Dragon —
Tom's hardware UK 1/9/2009
Consumers looking for elite-level computing branded with a low-end pricetag should look no further, as AMD today launched its "dragon" platform technology featuring the new AMD Phenom II X4 processor.
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