Today AMD is officially unveiling a new top-of-the-line socket AM2 processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. The X2 6000+ sports a full 1MB of L2 cache per core and is clocked at a healthy 3.0GHz ...

AMD already showed us yesterday what kind of graphical prowess could be crammed into a sub-$100 GPU, and today it's attempting to pull the same kind of stunt on the CPU front. The Athlon X2 7850 ...

AMD has just announced another processor option. It's called the Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition and this 2.8GHz processor packs in some power for its relatively small size, including 65nm dual-core ...

Earlier this month, Crave revealed AMD's brand-new ... the £740 Athlon 64 FX-57, was the undisputed king of gaming performance, but the £560 dual-core X2 4800+ was a smarter purchase.

A regular Athlon X2 7850 would also be clocked at 2.8GHz, with the same cache sizes and the same 95 watt TDP (peak processor wattage). Athlon X2 Series 7000 processors make use of socket AM2 ...

According to an October 2008 AMD roadmap, Kuma will first come in the form of X2 7000 series dual-core 65nm processors. Athlon X2 7550 is said to be clocked at 2.5GHz with 3MB cache and a TDP of ...

Yesterday some info surfaced on the fact that AMD launched the Athlon II X2 255 processor, a new dual-core Socket AM3 chip based on the 45nm Regor. The AMD Athlon II X2 255 is clocked at 3.1GHz ...

Today AMD is officially unveiling a new top-of-the-line socket AM2 processor, the Athlon 64 X2 6000+. The new X2 6000+ sports a full 1MB of L2 cache per core and is clocked at a healthy 3.0GHz ...

The Athlon 64 X2 6000+ shines in some areas, but overall it is a slower and more power hungry processor than what Intel is offering for around £30 more than AMD's £300 asking price. In fact ...

Yesterday morning, AMD announced its first member of the Athlon 64 X2 product family to break the 3GHz barrier, but it is not the company's first 3GHz processor for general consumers. That title ...

In the meantime, however, AMD has added in a couple of energy-efficient processors to its line-up and bolstered the top end with the Athlon 64 X2 6000+: the first AM2 processor to run at 3GHz.