Posted 07/02/08 at 08:44:25 AM by Chris Moody

AMD’s Phenom line gets some new additions with three new CPUs. The Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition which is now AMD’s fastest quad-core CPU at 2.6GHz is joined by the Phenom X4 9350e at 2.0 Ghz and the X4 9150e at 1.8 Ghz.

A few of the specs for these processors:

L1 Cache Sizes: 64K of L1 instruction and 64K of L1 data cache per core (512KB total L1 per processor)
L2 Cache Sizes: 512KB of L2 data cache per core (2MB total L2 per processor)
L3 Cache Size: 2MB (shared)
Memory Controller Frequency: Up to 1.6GHz - 2.0GHz with Dual Dynamic Power Management

Interested in hearing how some intitial overclocking went on the 9950BE? Make the Jump for details!

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Posted 05/09/08 at 04:48:48 PM by One4yu2c

AMD to skip 8-core processors and jump straight to 12-core, Xbox 360 getting a GPU die shrink, see how much your bank account might be worth to hackers, and more!

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Posted 05/31/07 at 05:05:49 PM by Paul Lilly

Quad-core could go mainstream this summer, and after getting cozy with a QX6800, Paul Lilly wonders if case design is up to the task.

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