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Announcements
10:30AM Nick Broughall | My closest shave was back when I was 18 - I was working at the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney and was almost electrocuted by some faulty wiring on a bain-marie. More »
Win! One of 25 Gillette Fusion Phenom Packs Signed By Mark Skaife
10:30AM Nick Broughall | My closest shave was back when I was 18 - I was working at the Wentworth Hotel in Sydney and was almost electrocuted by some faulty wiring on a bain-marie. More » 
Hardware
AMD Phenom II Quad Core Reviewed: Great Today, But Tomorrow’s Cloudy
5:00PM Matt Buchanan | Ars reviews AMD’s latest quad-core, the Phenom II, against a barrage of Intel chips and finds that while it “puts AMD back on the map” against today’s chips, AMD’s got a “long-term problem.” [Ars Technica]
Phones
Phenom SpecialOps Mobile Phone Watch: A Tacit Booyah
4:15AM Mark Wilson | I don’t care how big of a Dick Tracey you look like using the Phenom SpecialOPS mobile phone watch; its adolescent awesomeness goes unspoken. More »
Hardware
AMD Processor Roadmap Leaked Online: Quad-Core ‘Deneb’ Phenoms in January
12:45AM Kit Eaton | AMD’s immediate processor plans have been leaked in the form of a PowerPoint slide to Spanish site CHW.net. Dual-core “Brisbane” Athlons at 2.6GHz are due in October, alongside “Toliman” triple-core Phenoms. November sees the single-core “Lima” Athlon chip, obviously destined for low-power devices, since it runs at 1.6GHz and draws just 15W. Most interesting to processor fanatics will be the 45nm Phenoms slated for a January 8th launch. Both are quad-core “Deneb” chips, one running at 2.8GHz, one running at 3GHz and both drawing a chunky 125W of power. The “ultra-value client” devices scheduled for November are also intriguing: AMD’s answer to Intel’s Atom perhaps? [CHW.net via Reghardware] More »
Hardware
AMD’s Phenom X4 9950 Processor has Green 9350e, 9150e Siblings
7:47PM Gizmodo US Edition | Technically, the trio of new processors from AMD are pretty much the same: they have the same core, and similar feature sets. But while the 9950 Black Edition is a 140W, 2.6GHz overclockable monster (the most power-hungry Phenom AMD has made) the 9350 (2GHz) and 9150 (1.8GHz) are selectively binned and draw just 65W TDP. This makes them the most “power friendly” quadcore processors there are. The 9950 will cost US$235 and at HotHardware.com they think it compares with Intel’s Core 2 Quad Q6600. While the 9350 and 9150 will cost US$195 and US$175 respectively, meaning that “eco-friendliness” won’t save you many dollars in the chip price, but will cost you a chunk of clock speed. [HotHardware and UberGizmo] More »
Hardware
AMD X3 Tri-Core Processor Reviewed (Verdict: Get a Quad-Core Chip)
4:31PM Matt Buchanan | Maximum PC has reviewed AMD’s tri-core 2.4GHz Phenom X3 8750 CPU. It performs like you’d expect—in between quad and dual cores. Fine, but it’s US$195. You can pick up AMD’s top quad core, the X4 9850 for only US$235, or Intel’s Q6600 (which mercilessly beat down the X4 9850 in benchmarks) for US$224 now, or hell, US$200 in a few weeks. So just get a quad core. Maximum PC also hints that a Core 2 Duo might keep pace with the tri-cores, but they’re keeping that under wraps for now, bastards. [Maximum PC] More »
Hardware
AMD Phenom X3 Triple Core Processors Are Crippled Quad Cores in Disguise
12:30PM Matt Buchanan | Part of AMD’s multi-core Phenom blast today is the Phenom X3 8000, “the world’s only triple-core x86 processor,” which we heard about a few months ago. They’re supposed to bargain chips for budget consumers, but they’re a nicer bargain for AMD, actually, since it lets them dump bug-plagued quad-core Phenomsby disabling a core. But if performance is your top concern, you might want to steer clear of the whole Phenom batch anyway. We’re still waiting for AMD’s 45nm chippies, personally. [Hard OCP, Anandtech] More »
Hardware
AMD Quad-Core Phenom X4 9850 Reviewed (Verdict: Owned by Intel Quad Cores)
3:57PM Matt Buchanan | The Phenom X4 9850 is AMD’s latest quad-core chip. It’s free of the performance-sapping bug that plagued the first batch of Phenoms, and AMD hopes it’ll claw back some ground from Intel. Maximum PC stacked it up against two quad-cores from Intel—the mid-rangeish Penryn Core 2 Quad Q9300, as well as an older Core 2 Q6600. Ouchies for AMD, the Intel pair blew past it. More »
Computers
AMD Tri-Core Phenom Chips Coming to Dell Computers
12:30PM Adrian Covert | Amid rumours of Dell dropping AMD processors, TG Daily has discovered Dell actually plans to release a new line of Optiplex PCs with AMD Tri-Core Phenom processors. They also report Dell plans to feature AMD chips in future consumer products later this year. [TG Daily] More »
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