AMD is preparing to release the low-power Brisbane-based Athlon X2 they announced a while back, with the 22W TDP unit hopefully being available before the end of the year. The CPUs have been pushed ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. On the other side of the world in Taipei, Taiwan, AMD announced the ...

Only one holiday weekend behind its rival Intel released its dual-core Pentium D chipset, AMD this week announced the Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor that, much like Intel’s offering, is aimed at ...

We continued our testing of the with a video encoding benchmark based on Windows Media Encoder 9. In this test, we ran the Windows Media Encoder 9 portion of the WorldBench 5 suite with encoding times ...

I recently upgraded and rebuilt my desktop PC into a HTPC case, re-using the existing CPU, motherboard, RAM, and video card. I replaced the case, power supply, hard drive, added a BD-ROM/DVDRW combo ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. Over the past few weeks, we've seen a parade of dual-core CPUs, starting with the Pentium Extreme ...

"The CPU test suite is a collection of tests that are run to isolate the performance of the CPU. There are nine tests in all. Two pairs of tests are run multithreaded - each test in the pair is run in ...