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All the reviews are in for AMD's new "4x4" Quad FX dual CPU platform and it loses nearly every single real world benchmark to a single Intel CPU while consuming more than twice the electricity. We ...

Since it first debuted in 2003, AMD's FX series of CPUs stood for pure gaming performance. Featuring the highest clock speeds that AMD had to offer, the FX line is known for blistering frame rates and ...

Even before AMD officially released its Bulldozer-based FX-Series of desktop processors last year, the company was already talking about the follow-on microarchitecture codenamed “Piledriver”. In fact ...

AIDA64 demonstrates that AMD hasn't changed anything to improve the memory subsystem of the Piledriver FX processors. Although the FX-8350 had 4% more read bandwidth at its disposal, keep in mind that ...

AMD hopes to finally step from behind Intel’s shadow with the launch of its all-new mobile APU platform, codenamed Kaveri. Despite lagging behind its nemesis’s offerings in terms of manufacturing ...

The overwhelming majority of hardware enthusiasts invest in third-party CPU coolers with superb thermal dissipation and a wonderful noise to performance ratio. This includes large air coolers like the ...

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