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Although we said AMD would make the Q4 2007 ship dates of Phenom chips, the '07 shipments are not going to be "substantial," says AMD's honcho. Better luck in 2008! [Reg Hardware]

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AMD Quad Core Phenom Gaming System in the Flesh (and Blood)

We just got the chance to play around with AMD's newest quad core system, the Phenom RD790 and a pair of ATI HD2900XT graphics processors. There's a whole lot of cooling going on, thanks to John Woo's new game Stranglehold. AMD is still mum on pricing and final specs, though they did reaffirm their desire to ship this sucker in "early Q4" of this year, so like October? The system managed the Havoc physics engine with ease, jumping into sepia-toned "tequila" time and into a zoom mode that gave a bullet's eye view of the action. Lack of specs notwithstanding, the experience was mesmerizing, right up to the point where one of the bad guys in the game took a bullet in the nuts, and I actually felt his pain. Wanna see? More »

2:00 PM on Thu Jul 19 2007
By Wilson Rothman
61,843 views, 25 comments

Latest by axiomatic: Come on AMD, get it together. I do not want to buy Intel this year. more »

chip wars

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 »

amd strikes back

AMD's Quad-core CPUs Leaked?

AMD has been pretty quiet, but that doesn't mean they haven't been thinking of ways to put an end to Intel's desktop dominance. Details have been leaked on the company's first four-core CPU, dubbed the Phenom X4. More »

12:15 PM on Mon May 7 2007
By Louis Ramirez
5,050 views, 9 comments