On the other side of the world in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD announced the launch of two new processors at Computex: the AMD Athlon II X2 250 and the AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition. Both dual-core ...

Multitasking is a phrase that we're all familiar with, because most of us are now used to running multiple applications at the same time. However, to run multiple applications well you need a powerful ...

AMD have announced two new desktop processors, the dual-core 45nm Athlon II X2 250 and the X2 550 Black Edition, their first-ever dual-core AMD Phenom II. The former boasts a TDP of 65W and nifty ...

As we've mentioned, AMD's Athlon II X2 250 processor is comprised of roughly 234 million transistors and is built using Global Foundries' advanced 45nm fabrication process... Save for the unique ...

The Phenom IIs in quad and three core variations are in the market for quite a while, and after months of waith AMD is ready to replace the old Athon X2 series, which latest incarnations are the 7750 ...

For all of the performance tests, we disable all power saving technology in order to give us a consistent set of results, and also best-case performance numbers - even though technologies such as ...

Now here's a hint for a contest we are running ;) When AMD launched the initial Phenom processors, they did so under the codename 'Spider'. Spider entailed the AMD 780 chipset, Radeon series 3000/4000 ...

Performance Summary: AMD's new processors performed well in all of our tests. The new Athlon II X2 250 looks to be a solid performer for a dual-core chip, especially considering its relatively low ...

The new Athlon II X2 series is based on the 'Regor' architecture and will eventually be available in models ranging from 2.70GHz through to 3.0GHz. This is another dual-core processor based on the ...

Funny how it's always the same. You start to pack your bags to travel around the world to an exhibition, in this case Computex, and merely days before you have to leave you get an email from both AMD ...

It should be noted that both new AMD processors were tested using DDR3 memory because there aren't currently any available BIOS updates to use these processors on the AM2 platform. This should ...

Of course, it says something about the Athlon II X2 250 that we even feel the need to confirm it's up to the job of running an HD video file. For most modern CPUs, that's a given. Still, when you ...