Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

Intel may have come out with dual-core processors a few days earlier, but Advanced Micro Devices says it is bringing out dual-core chips to the market where it counts. The Sunnyvale, California-based ...

Before we got down to the business of benchmarking the Athlon 64 X2 4800+, we fired up the latest version of CPU-Z to take see if we could find any interesting information. If you take a look at the ...

Intel's recent press launch of a dual-core consumer x86 processor has polarised minds, press time and thinking from technologists, as everyone beings to come to terms with the way processor ...

LONDON — Advanced Micro Devices Inc. has announced that the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor is available at a price of between $537 and $1001 in 1000 unit quantities. Dual-core processors are the ...

Today sees AMD release the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. This is a dual core processor that runs at 3.0GHz and has 1MB of L2 cache per core (2MB in all). Hot Hardware have a review and it's performance is ...

"The combination of new AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 and AMD Athlon 64 X2 5000+ dual-core processors with ATI's CrossFire graphics and chipset platforms results in the most impressive PC performance available ...

Dual core processors work best when software can run in parallel on them. So-called 'multithreaded applications' benefit from an additional CPU core because subroutines can be allocated to different ...

Recent processors released by AMD using their 90nm production process, including the Venice core which powers a load of mass-market low-to-high-end CPUs with the Athlon 64 moniker and the dual-core ...

Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new flagship processor, the Athlon 64 FX-60. At the time, we speculated it would easily become the fastest desktop CPU money could buy, and we've since ...

How we configured our test systems: When configuring the test systems for this review, we first entered their system BIOSes and set each board to its "Optimized" or "High-Performance Defaults." The ...