According to sources cited in a report on The Inquirer, AMD’s future 45nm processors will work in current socket AM2 motherboards. Before socket AM3 hits though, socket AM2+ will be introduced later ...

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 ...

One downside of the upcoming Phenom II - Bulldozer transition is that the new processors won't be compatible with current AM3 motherboards. This news disappointed certain AMD enthusiasts, given that ...

Okay, why are we here again? - Well, AMD has once again released a new CPU, but this is using the same name as previous yet still fairly new CPU. Confusing? - I know; it is to me as well. One month ...

AMD has followed Intel's transition to DDR3 with the launch of its socket AM3 CPUs this week. That's not to say AMD and its customers still don't have reservations about how much performance the extra ...

Last month, AMD launched the Phenom II X4 processor line-up, and with it ushered in the first desktop processors built using the company's 45nm process node. While the first two Phenom II processors ...

It's now known that AMD's upcoming Vishera Piledriver cores will continue to use the firm's AM3+ socket, with early confirmation perhaps showing up when companies such as ASUS began to announce ...

When we flip the board we can see the new AM3 socket. Mind you that AM2+ motherboards can support AM3 processors as well. Yet Socket AM3 motherboards can not support Socket AM2+ processors. Keep that ...

AMD's Phenom II has been one of least hyped up processors from AMD, mostly because it hasn't been the success that AMD really wanted it to be. K10 was supposed to be AMD's answer to Core 2 and while ...

Is there something I'm missing, like AM3+ just being an AM3 socket with a chipset update? Well, if it is like the AM2/AM2+ transition, a few of the AM2 boards could be flashed to accept AM3 CPUs, but ...

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 ...