Enter The Dragon: AMD Phenom II X4 940 - AMD , Nvidia , Hardware

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AMD has been fighting an uphill battle on two fronts for the last few years. For a time, fierce competition from NVIDIA, coupled with some of their own problems executing, put the ATI graphics division in a deep hole. And ever since the introduction of the original Core 2 ...

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gigaom.com - 1/6/2009

Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing [GigaOM]

— gigaom.com — Freescale said Monday it would offer an ARM-based chip that could lead to a $200 Linux-based netbook... , offering about twice the amount of usage on a single battery charge as Intel’s Atom processor allows. Freescale’s efforts are nothing ... (more) Netbooks and the Death of x86 Computing [GigaOM]

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— amd.com — “As a result of its exceptional energy efficiency advances and an affordable price/performance ratio, AMD Phenom II... X4 deserves our seldom-granted Recommended Buy award.” – Tom's Hardware 3 “The Phenom II puts AMD back in the running right in the ... (more) News Room Home

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I4U News: AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review Round-up

TG Daily - All News: CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform

Hardware 2.0: AMD officially releases Phenom II and Dragon desktop platform

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AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review Round-up
I4U News — ... multi-core technology that automatically provides processing power where its needed most during multitasking among demanding applications. Offering frequencies up to 3.0 GHz with significant headroom for overclocking, AMD Phenom II CPUs give consumers the power to use their favorite productivity, HD gaming and multimedia applications without skipping a beat. If this is true can be found out in the AMD Phenom II X4 940 reviews below. AMD Phenom II X4 940 Review Round-up: Hothardware ...

CES 2009: AMD releases Phenom II X4 and Dragon desktop platform
TG Daily - All News — ... and HotHardware.com indicate that at idle the CPU throttles down to 800 MHz and 0.992 volts with Cool'n'Quiet 3.0, resulting in a CPU energy consumption of 10.3 watts for 940, 10.0 watts for 920, and a platform energy consumption of 113.4 and 112.5 watts, respectively - which is currently "best in class" platform-wise. Under heavy loads power consumption increases to 93.3 and 87.9 watts for CPU alone, and 204.8 and 199.4 watts for 940 and 920, respectively, which is only bested by Phenom X4 9350's 127.7 watts and Intel's Core 2 Quad Q6600 (which Intel discontinued ...

AMD officially releases Phenom II and Dragon desktop platform
Hardware 2.0 — ... reviews are somewhat understated. The main advantage of the Phenom II seems to be that you can drop them into any 125W TDP Phenom compatible motherboard, whereas Intel’s i7 means a whole new platform. My guess is that over the next 12 months AMD will release more Phenom II parts with faster clock speeds. ...