Conclusion: Comparing the Phenom II X4 series to the latest Intel Core i7 processors is not completely fair, as they are intended to serve two different markets, at least for now.
Pros: Great Price/Performance, Nice Overclocking Headroom, Responds Well To Advanced Cooling Methods, Best Performance From AMD We’ve Seen To Date, Very Stable When Overcloc...
Conclusion: The AMD platform has long been known for its backwards compatible platforms with AM2+ CPUs able t work with the AM2 motherboards with a BIOS upgrade, and now the AM3 CPUs
AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition 3.2 GHz Socket AM3 Processor Review
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10 August 2009
Summary: The 3.2GHz AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition is the companies' latest quad-core processor, and it's being released in tandem with a new memory tuning tool called Black
Excerpt: When originally released, Phenom had a nick name of the black death . The TLB bug with the L3 cache caused serious stability and reliability problems and the only work...
Excerpt: In our review of the Phenom II X4 940 processor we saw that the new 45nm processors looked much improved from both a performance and overclocking stand point.