AMD has today unveiled the much-speculated Phenom II X4 955 Black version CPU, an upgrade of current socket AM2+ performance Quad-core processors with similar 45nm fabrication, 8MB cache (2MB L2 + 6MB ...

Motherboard maker ASRock has published a guide to AM3+ motherboards that not only lets slip a few details about AMD's new AM3+ socket, but also the CPUs that will fit in it. One key concern, according ...

Okay, why are we here again? - Well, AMD has once again released a new CPU, but this is using the same name as previous yet still fairly new CPU. Confusing? - I know; it is to me as well. One month ...

One downside of the upcoming Phenom II - Bulldozer transition is that the new processors won't be compatible with current AM3 motherboards. This news disappointed certain AMD enthusiasts, given that ...

AMD has followed Intel's transition to DDR3 with the launch of its socket AM3 CPUs this week. That's not to say AMD and its customers still don't have reservations about how much performance the extra ...

AMD’s upcoming Zen CPU architecture requires a brand new socket, and predicted to feature a 40% IPC improvement compared to Excavator. As a result, it’s probably the most anticipated release in the ...

For today's tests we'll be using the new AM3 Phenom II X3 720BE processor, which has a pretty good TDP (peak wattage) compared to the last flagship products, 95 Watts (95 Watts peak, when all 4 cores ...

The Asrock 880GMH/USB3 might be an affordable AM3 motherboard, but you would never know it just by looking at it. In terms of appearances there is nothing cheap about this motherboard, featuring an ...

With AMD's much-discussed Zen processor now pushed back to 2017, there's been some question as to what the company would do for a 2016 CPU lineup. On the GPU side, we already know that there are new ...

Here we have the Phenom II X3 720BE in combo with the ECS 790GXM-AD3 all at default clock frequency. At this stage power management was disabled, otherwise CPU-Z would have shown a clocked down ...