Good Morning All,



Starting
in November of last year, we got a sense that AMD was slowly, but surely,
clawing its way back into the fight. It began with the introduction of the
Spider platform, which consisted of AMD's native quad-core Phenom processors,
7-series chipsets, and 3800-series graphics cards. Individually, the components
that made up the Spider platform weren't performance leaders in their
respective categories, but ultimately the platform proved to be solid, and of
course, it was priced very competitively.



As
many of you know, AMD hasn't been sitting idle since the Spider platform
introduction. The company's chipset division has launched a handful of new
chipsets, featuring one of--if not--the best IGPs on the market and a new
Southbridge. The ATI graphics division has also been firing on all cylinders
lately, having released a top to bottom lineup of GPUs that compete very
favorably at their respective price points. AMD also recaptured the 3D
performance crown from NVIDIA for a time with the Radeon HD 4870 X2. AMD wasn't
going down without a fight.



With
the chipset and graphics divisions on a roll, it was time for the CPU team to
pull the trigger on something new and exciting, to complete the new platform
trifecta. It took some time, but that's exactly what's happening today. The end
result is the Dragon platform which consists of new 45nm Phenom II X4
processors, 7-series chipsets, and ATI Radeon 4000 series graphics cards.


Direct Link:

http://hothardware.com/Articles/Enter-The-Dragon-AMD-Phenom-II-X4-940/





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