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Sometimes They Come Back: AMD Launching Phenom II X4
Sometimes They Come Back: AMD Launching Phenom II X4
Today AMD announced a new modification of their quad-core processors aka Phenom II X4. The new CPUs are manufactured using advanced 45nm process, have higher clock speeds and larger L3 cache. But are these improvements enough to help AMD regain the high-performance processor market share?
 	Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940
Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940
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 ... (more) Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940
AMD's Phenom II processors
AMD's Phenom II processors
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 ... (more) AMD's Phenom II processors
AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920 review
AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920 review
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 ... (more) AMD Phenom II X4 940 & 920 review
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