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Phenom CPU: Christmas Gift from AMD

[ 12/19/07 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

We are ready to share with you our extensive benchmarking results of the real quad-core AMD processors from the new Phenom family that were officially announced on November 19, 2007. Our article includes detailed performance analysis for Phenom 9500, 9600, 9700, 9900 and an overclocked CPU running at 3.0GHz frequency.

Second Iteration of Core Micro-Architecture: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU Review

[ 10/28/07 | by Ilya Gavrichenkov]

In the nearest future Intel is going to launch the long-awaited processors from the new Penryn family manufactured with 45nm production process. Today we are going to share with you benchmark results obtained from the first representative of the new desktop processor family – quad-core Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU.