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AMD Rolls Out Phenom X2 and Phenom X4 Processors, FASN8 Platform

Now it's official, AMD has bumped its Athlon processors off the high horse and replaced them with Phenom X2 (dual core) and Phenom X4 (quad core) processors, and the company says these new chips will be part of its enthusiast platform it calls FASN8. The company's saying that when you lash these chips together with its DirectX 10 ATI Radion HD 2000 series graphics cards shipped today, you'll get, well, some serious graphics performance. We'll believe it when we see it, but the ability to have two of these quad-core processors on one motherboard will surely make for some serious eight-way action. More »

9:32 AM on Mon May 14 2007
By Charlie White
9,280 views, 9 comments

Latest by platinumigloo: i'm sorry i know "phenom" is not in the proper English dictionary but, is it pronounced "fee-nom" or "fen-uhm"? because "fee-nom" and venom does not rhyme. and, i highly doubt AMD will name it something that sounds like chalky and more »