Phenom II 955 Black Edition is AMD's newest processor on the block. It is based around the same K10 architecture that all the other Phenom processors are based on. Using the 45nm wafer design, AMD is ...

AMD started shipping the Phenom II X4 earlier this year and will now refresh the lineup with two new processors: the Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition and Phenom II X4 945. Both processors are modestly ...

AMD has today unveiled the much-speculated Phenom II X4 955 Black version CPU, an upgrade of current socket AM2+ performance Quad-core processors with similar 45nm fabrication, 8MB cache (2MB L2 + 6MB ...

Earlier in January there was already was a rumor about a new Phenom II processor clocked at 3.1 GHz for launch in April 2009. That processor woould be tagged as Phenom II X4 950. While that SKU not ...

When AMD launched their long-awaited AM3-based processors last month, the X3 720 and X4 810, one thing was lacking… a high-end Quad-Core part. On the AM2+ side, we’ve had the X4 940 since Phenom II’s ...

Disappointingly, even in the single threaded CPU test the Core i7 with a 500MHz slower clock speed still manages to outperform the Phenom II X4 955 by a small margin, and DDR3 makes no difference to ...

In our review of AMD's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition, released today, we reckoned that it performed pretty much on a par with Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9550. Intel's mid-range chip currently costs £210, ...

Despite the fact the Phenom IIs clock down quite a long way to just 800MHz when idling, these power numbers are somewhat disappointing. The 940, with DDR2 and a DDR2 motherboard, are a good 17W lower ...

The new Phenom II X4 955 and 945 processors can still make good use of the AM2+ socket, the very same socket used by existing Phenom X4 and X3 processors, as well as Athlon-based processors. Although ...

The AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition ($117 list) is a quad-core CPU designed for use with AMD's AM3 socket. This 64-bit chip is based on the Deneb processing core, and was developed using AMD's 45nm ...

The previous AMD Phenom II X4 processors fared well in the PCmark Vantage gaming test and the Phenom II X4 955 is no different, though it did fail to outperform the Phenom II X4 940. While the Phenom ...

Page 8: Gaming: Crysis and F.E.A.R. Page 9: Power Consumption Page 10: Our Summary and Conclusion Over the course of a few months in late 2007 and early-to-mid 2008, AMD unveiled their Spider platform ...