Introduction & Specifications Today we will take a look at the AMD:s newest consumer class quadcore cpu. AMD Athlon II X4 640 is a 3.0GHz processor and we will be taking  a look at how well it performs against AMD Phenom II X4 and the older AMD Athlon II X4 635. Let’s have a closer look at it. [...]

Introduction Dual-core, tri-core or quad-core – the question of the day. If you want ultimate performance, you have to choose quad-core.. ..or do you? Some of the AMD Phenom II X2:s can be unlocked to full X4:s. Let’s have a look how our AMD Phenom II X4 555BE performs in tests and can it be [...]

Introduction & specifications Today we will take a look at AMD:s newest consumer class quadcore processor, the AMD Athlon II X4 635. With Athlon II X4 series you get quadcore cpu for around 100$. Let’s see how this performs against Intel’s product priced in same range and how well it compares with a little more [...]

Introduction Intel sees a big market share when it comes to CPUs, but the one place where AMD remains competitive is budget processors.  Let’s see how Intel’s latest socket 775 offering, the E6750 fares. Sponsor: Geeks.com, headquartered in Oceanside, CA, is a leading direct-to-consumer eCommerce site specializing in providing computer-related excess inventory, manufacturer-closeouts, high-demand and [...]

Specifications AMD has been pushing out alot of different Athlon 2 versions to the market so today we are giving our attention to their tri channel 435 CPU on our test bench. We decided to run this a couple of AMD cpu’s and also vs a Intel processor to give you an idea how this unit performs. We will of course push our luck [...]

Specifications AMD has released several lower end cpu´s on to the market to compete with Intel. We are going to look at the Athlon 2 X2 245 cpu that sells for about 50$ which is one of the cheapest cpu´s on the market. We have decided to compare it in some tests vs a Intel 6300 [...]

Specifications Today we are taking a look at a new Athlon 2 cpu from AMD. They have resurrected the Athlon name and made both dual and quad cores, we are looking at the quad core named 620 today that sells for around 90$. The question is what type of performance we can expect from these lower end cpu´s on the [...]

Core i7 920 Features Today we are going to take a look at another Core i7 processor from Intel. We got ourselves a 920 to play around with and use in our test system. Comparisons will be between this and the new AMD Phenom 2 955 which is the fastest AMD processor on the market right now. [...]

First look at the Phenom 2 905e Another AMD processor reached our mailbox a week ago, it’s the Phenom 2 905e which is supposed to be a mid range processor. You can get this for around 180$ so it’s not to badly priced if the performance is decent. We are going to compare it vs the [...]

Introduction Today we will have a look at one of the AMD:s latest consumer class processors.We will put the Phenom II X3 705e cpu against last generations Phenom 9500 and see if it performs better. Let’s have a look. About AMD: Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD designs and produces innovative microprocessor [...]