Not much has been going right for AMD in recent weeks, but I'm happy to say one of the most popular benchmarks used in testing processors wasn't ready for Phenom when the media hacked apart the poor processor apart on launch day. It seems SiSoftware Sandra XII was not correctly optimized for the Phenom processors! The latest update of Sisoftware Sandra has the right optimization set and ready to go. See what the difference makes for the memory bandwidth score!
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When AMD was briefing the media about Phenom at their launch event they mentioned that a fix was in the works for one of the hundreds of erratums that the Phenom processor has. All processors have glitches and they are documented and given a erratum number. Read on to see why erratum 298 made the news and if it is anything to worry about!
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We’ve looked at dozens of power supplies, but we haven’t given out any awards. In this recap of the 2007 PSU market, we pick out those offerings that have impressed us the most. (more…)
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Nvidia released its latest WHQL driver for GeForce FX, 6, 7, and 8 series GPUs. (more…)
