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New AMD Athlon II And Phenom II Clock In At Under $US120

5:15AM January 26, 2010 | Sean Fallon

AMD has released several new processors in the Athlon and Phenom II lineups and aimed them squarely on budget-minded consumers. The chips have already been benchmarked on several sites, and, overall, they appear to offer good performance for the price. More »


SanDisk Starts Shipping X4 Flash Cards, Will Eventually Be Awesome

7:20PM October 13, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

SanDisk’s X4 tech packs four bits of data into each memory cell, compared with the typical one or two bits. That means they’ll be able to far exceed the 32GB limit on SDHC, microSDHC and others, and they’ve started shipping. More »


AMD Athlon II X4 620: Four Cores For $US99

3:20PM September 16, 2009 | Danny Allen

AMD’s new Athlon II X4 chips are like a Phenom II minus the L3 cache. And they’re super-cheap: $US99 (2.6GHz-620), and $US122 (2.8GHz-630). Also looks like they hold their own against the $US150 Core 2 Quad 8200: [Maximum PC] More »