insidehw.com - 1/12/2009
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In last few years it looked like AMD lost its bearings in CPU market. No one expected that company, that is in constant transition, financial problems and without complete product portfolio, can produce interesting, equivalent and concurrent product. Phenom CPUs with K10 micro architecture ...
hothardware.com - 1/8/2009
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hothardware.com —
AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on
two fronts for the last few years. For a...
time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction ...
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Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940
techreport.com - 1/7/2009
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techreport.com —
Little more than a year after the introduction
of the original Phenom, the Phenom II has arrived...
with more of everything good--cache, clock speeds, features, and performance--and less of everything bad, including power consumption. But is it enough to ...
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AMD's Phenom II processors
techspot.com - 1/8/2009
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techspot.com —
Today we are covering the official launch of
the new AMD Phenom II X4 processors. The flagship...
model in this new series is the Phenom II X4 940 which works at 3.0GHz, while the 920 is just slightly slower at 2.80GHz. Both processors should be ...
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AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920 review
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AMD Phenom II X4 940 vs Phenom X4 9950 BE and Intel Core 2 Q9550
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... they were significant step forward compared to worn out K8 cores. We must be aware of the fact that every processor is result of compromise between investments and goals. Probably K10 would be better product if it had larger L2 and L3 cache memory, with better and larger Branch Target Buffers, with different cache policies that are favoring intensive operations with cache memory, but in that case Phenom, that was manufactured in 65nm process, wouldnt give adequate results
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