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Posted by Brandon Sandman Bell on Monday June 01, 2009 - 06:42 PM

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» AMD Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition/Athlon II X2 250 Performance Preview

Packing two processing cores, 6MB of L3 cache, an unlocked multiplier, and a 3.1GHz clock speed, AMD's Phenom II X2 550 Black is targeted towards enthusiasts looking to OC. Its $102 price tag is inexpensive too. But is it a worthy competitor to Core 2 Duo? AMD's also unleashing a new Athlon II CPU today. See how both new AMD CPUs perform against two similarly priced CPUs from Intel inside!

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Click to view surreydistrict36's User Page surreydistrict36 (6)  My XFire username is: asdfqwerty Talk to surreydistrict36 in the Shout! Box Jun 02, 2009 - 06:48 pm
Divx encoding? Anyone used that in the past 4 years?

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Click to view deimos47's User Page deimos47 (435)  Click to view deimos47's User Profile Talk to deimos47 in the Shout! Box Jun 02, 2009 - 01:21 pm
It took so so very long for AMD dual core update, cant believe my eyes. About time.

Ofcourse Intel's had the Core2 in July 06, and then Allendale, Wolfdale, 3M, 2M etc.

AMD? Stuck with 65nm Athlon64 X2 Brisbane since Dec 06. Even after Phenom launch in Nov 07, took over a year for 65nm dual core "Kuma". new X2's are good against E7xxx but probably bit behind E6800... after only 2.5 years..... *sigh*

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Click to view LORD ORION's User Page LORD ORION (1336)  Click to view LORD ORION's User Profile Talk to LORD ORION in the Shout! Box Jun 01, 2009 - 07:07 pm
Dude, what socket are these CPUs? :)

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Click to view GX-Brandon's User PageI am an AMD Agent GX-Brandon (369)  Talk to GX-Brandon in the Shout! Box I am an AMD Agent Jun 01, 2009 - 11:18 pm
They're both AM3 parts. All Phenom II's going forward are going to be AM3-based.

Keep in mind that AM3 CPUs are backward compatible with older AM2+ mobos. All you usually need is a BIOS update.

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