The Phenom II CPUs don't fair well in the highly threaded Paint.NET and while several seconds faster than the previous generation, barely even make a dent on the Intel CPUs, with only the dual cores ...

Page 9: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 10: Power Consumption Page 11: Our Summary and Conclusion AMD's new baby is the Phenom II X4 line-up of desktop processors. Like the original Phenoms that came ...

When it launched in early January, Phenom II’s sole purpose, its raison d’?tre, was to rejuvenate AMD’s ability to compete against Intel with something other than price cuts. Viewed in aggregate, ...

Just two weeks ago AMD launched their new Phenom II X4 processors. As we learned in our review, the flagship model also known as the Phenom II X4 940 performs on par with its Core 2 Quad competition, ...

I don't replace processors often but I'm ready to upgrade my AM2/AM2+ board from an X2 4400+ CPU to quad core. Aside from the numbers which have started to mean less to me as I really haven't paid ...

Towards the beginning of this year (during CES to be exact), AMD launched their highly-anticipated Phenom II processors, which at the time included only the X4 940 and X4 920. Prior to launch, we all ...

As our faithful Asus M3A79-T died just before the festive period we were left having to use the AMD provided MSI 790GX for this review as it was the only other one we have with a Phenom II BIOS at ...

Page 9: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 10: Power Consumption Page 11: Our Summary and Conclusion AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a time, fierce ...

As stated in our introduction, a name you'll hear quite a lot this week is "Dragon". When AMD launched the Phenom processors, they did so under codename "Spider". Spider entailed the AMD 780 chipset, ...

Of course there is also level 1 cache which is 128KB x4 (64KB Instruction + 64KB data cache for each core). We are now at a stage where we can say, this really wasn't a tick-tock update was it? As you ...

The memory bandwidth of the Phenom II X4 processors has not improved, though we didn't expect it to. Both the first and second generation Phenoms use the same dual-channel DDR2 memory controller.