AMD has just released their latest quad-core speed-bump in order to give consumers the option for a little more bang and a little more buck. With the release of the AMD Phenom II X4 975 ‘Black Edition’ processor, AMD has added a new flagship processor to their Phenom II X4 quad-core product line with this 3.6GHz beast. Will it be enough to keep up with the offerings from Intel?
It seems just like yesterday that Intel launched the Core 2 Duo series of CPUs and re-established itself as the king of the hill for x86 CPUs. As hard as it may be to believe that was four and a half years ago. Intel has just released their 2nd generation Intel Core Processor family and you might be shocked to see just how well these ‘mainstream’ processors tear up many of the processors on the market today. You also need to look at how well they overclock!
The Intel Core i7-950 3.06GHz quad-core processor is a very fast and affordable desktop processor from the second you pull it out of the box. This Intel LGA 1366 processor runs at 3.33GHz when in Turbo Mode, has 8 MB of cache and has gobs of bandwidth thanks to the QuickPath Interconnect (QPI). Read on to see how the Intel Core i7-950 processor does against other CPUs from AMD and Intel!
The AMD Phenom II X6 product line is getting a new member of the family today. This isn’t just any member of the family, it was bred to be the head of the household. The new AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black edition processor is the new flagship CPU from AMD and runs at a native 3.3GHz and has a turbo that cooks along at 3.8GHz. If you are as curious as I was to see how the AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition processor will perform, read on!
With the new lower price of the AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Hex-Core processor, it may just be the new leader in the battle for price versus performance. Follow us on our magic carpet ride as we put the AMD Phenom II X6 1075T Hex-Core processor through it’s paces and compare it to several of our other processors. Just how well did it do? Read on to find out!
Last week we had the opportunity to visit AMD’s Austin, Texas headquarters to preview their upcoming ‘Brazos’ development platform and actually got some hands-on testing with a Fusion APU system prior to its launch. AMD is allowing us to post up a little bit of information on this upcoming platform today, but the performance numbers that we recorded are under still under embargo. Today, we will be bringing you some high-level impressions, chip architecture details and pictures of an MSI notebook that is running an AMD APU called Zacate.
At a recent press event in Los Angeles, Legit Reviews got a a chance to take a look at an AMD development platform that was running an early revision of AMD’s Llano Fusion processor. This is the first time that AMD Llano APU’s have been seen outside an AMD test lab, so it looks like they are coming along nicely. We have been told that these processors are being manufactured by GlobalFoundries and are due out in the first half of 2011.
The AMD Phenom II X6 1055T is the entry level six-core processor in the Phenom II series with its overall clock frequency of 2.8GHz. With a street price of $198 and six cores is the AMD Phenom II X6 1055T CPU worth it? Read on to see how it performs in the benchmarks and to see how it handles being overclocked on our AMD 890FX test system.
Internet browsers have been making a ton of headlines this week. Just in the past few days we’ve seen IE9 Preview 3, Google Chrome 5.0.376.86 and Firefox 3.6.4 all be released. With Flash 10.1 also coming out this month and HTML 5 taking off we figured that it would be a good time to look at the performance of 13 of the most used web browsers again. Read on to see which is fastest browser when it comes to JavaScripts!
In a move that shocked many, Intel has buckled to the demands of mainstream consumers and has launched a couple unlocked processors for the LGA 1156 platform! The processors that are being announced today are the unlocked Intel Core i7-875K and Core i5-655K processors. Read on as we take the Core i7-875K processor for a test drive and overclock it up to 4.5GHz with just air cooling!
The AMD Athlon II series of processors is a very budget friendly series of processors. Just because they are budget friendly, by no means are they lacking in performance. Today we have the opportunity to look at one such processor. The AMD Athlon II X2 260 is the fastest dual core processor in the Athlon II series. Read on to find out more!
The AMD Athlon II X4 640 is the fastest quad-core processor in the Athlon II series with its overall clock frequency of 3.0GHz. With a street price of $122 and just a 100MHz boost over its predecessor is the Athlon II X4 640 worth it? Read on to see how it performs in the benchmarks and to see how it handles being overclocked on our AMD 890GX test system.
AMD has released the Phenom II X6 processor series and claims that it ushers in a new era of computing. Legit Reviews has the flagship AMD Phenom II X6 1090T Black Edition processor and puts it to the test against other common desktop processors in a vast number of benchmarks. We also overclock it to see how high we can get this six-core chip!
Earlier this week Gigabyte released beta BIOS F7B for their GA-890GPA-UD3H motherboard and we didn’t bother dedicating any time to it until this morning when we noted that the description for this board said that the BIOS update would improve power consumption. What in the world could this be? It’s not every day you see a BIOS update being released that improves the efficiency of the board! Read on to find out!