It’s really hard where to place AMD processors nowadays. They used to be really popular among gamers, overclockers and net cafe owners since they offer the best bang for the buck. Even until now, AMD still holds that niche in the Philippines.
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The Asus M4A89TD Pro was made for AMD processors, specifically Socket AM3 CPUs which includes Phenom II and Athlon II series. Asus Philippines sent us a sample of this motherboard to check out.
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We gathered simple benchmarks of laptops and desktop PCs to get their relative performance with each other. We used PassMark Performance Test for this purpose. In this round, we looked at the MSI Wind12 U210.
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The very first Athlon Neo we saw was with the new MSI Wind12 U210 that’s recently been sold in stores. This dual-core processor is AMD’s equivalent of the Intel Atom although it could also be compared to the CULV version.
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Last year, AMD revealed a 2.7GHz Atlon64 7850 X2 which is basically already in the Phenom family that had two of its cores disabled. This week, the 2.8GHz version of the Athlon 64 X2 7850 has also become available locally.
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The Asus EAH4770 is a new graphics card based on AMD’s latest midrange GPU, the Radeon HD 4770. This graphics card combines a balance between performance and affordability which costs around Php5,000.
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AMD sent us several of their new Phenom II processors to check out. This one is the AMD Phenom II 720 X3 Black Edition and is rated at 2.8GHz. Check out our results below.
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For the past 2 months, we’ve been doing rounds on setting up a new internet cafe business. We wanted to start small just to see the demand in the chosen location. One of the biggest challenge was figuring out the specs of the computer stations.
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Yesterday, while scouting around for that elusive Phenom II X4, I chanced upon this new processor SKU from AMD — the Athlon 64 X2 7750 Black Edition at 2.7GHz. It’s the first time I saw this Black Edition processor in the shelves. Curiosity got the better of me so I grabbed a unit and assembled a rig at home.
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