AMD Phenom II X6

We got another gaming rig assembled specifically for Asrock's new 890GX Extreme3 board and paired that with the new 6-core AMD Phenom II X6. Estimated price of setting up this rig is about Php62,000 (not bad considering this is possibly the best set-up you can do on an AMD processor to date). Been using the Phenom x4 9950 CPU sent to me by AMD for over a month now and I have been doing some simple benchmarks with it. The Phenom X4 9950 is the latest and fastest among AMD's quad core series. You will notice the ones from AMD and Intel are already capable of supporting DDR3 RAMs. On the other hand, the newer ones by AMD offers single-core and dual-core CPUs with higher cache memory. Notice thought that TDP of the AMD chips are still way higher at 12watts; that's almost twice that of the ones from Intel so they should be some noticeable battery life differences between the two. Yesterday, while scouting around for that elusive Phenom II X4, I chanced upon this new processor SKU from AMD -- the Athlon 64 X2 7750 BE @ 2.7GHz. Read more in our articles including "AMD Phenom II X6 + Asrock 890GX Extreme3" and "AMD Phenom X4 9950 Benchmark".