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AMD’s Athlon 3000G Gets New Packaging and Wraith Stealth Cooler
The Athlon 3000G is a pretty weak CPU in 2023 with only two cores but its low price makes it a good option for something lightweight with integrated graphics, specifically the Radeon Vega 3 Graphics. I have one of these in my dodgy eBay GPU test bench just for the…
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Unannounced AMD Processors Listed on ASRock’s Website
Early Athlon and APU Listing from ASRock AMD officially launched their 3rd Gen Ryzen CPUs back in Computex 2019. During that time, the company has also announced two new AMD APUs. However, it appears that they are planning more than just two, and it seems that they are launching new…
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AMD Athlon 200GE Dual-Core APU Review
Athlon 200GE You can’t build a PC for under a thousand monies, you can’t game at anything less than 4K, you can’t… the list goes on, I’ve heard it all. Then you’ve got AMD coming in with a CPU that costs a penny less than £40. That’s right, a far…
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AMD Athlon 220GE and Athlon 240GE APUs Now Available
More Athlon APU Options from AMD AMD released their Athlon 200GE AM4 CPU with integrated Vega graphics three months ago. For $55, it offered a very good deal for those with a tight budget since it already includes decent graphics. Now AMD is adding two more powerful models to their…
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AMD’s $55 Athlon 200GE AM4 APU is Now Available
Zen Architecture + Vega Graphics AMD is releasing their latest reimagined Athlon processor, in the form of the Athlon 200GE. This processor was announced earlier this month. It marries the Zen architecture with their Radeon Vega 3 graphics technology. However, what makes this APU interesting is the fact that it…
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AMD Launches A10 7860K & Athlon X4 845
Despite being stuck on the 28nm node for the past while, AMD has been working to bring more CPUs to consumers with better binning and performance as the process and technology matures. Case in point is the A10-7860K Godavari and Athlon X8 845 Carrizo chips launching today. Both chips are focused on…
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Gigabyte Rolls out the 990XA-UD3 R5 Socket AM3+ Motherboard
Gigabyte has announced that it has recently added a new socket AM3+ motherboard to its lineup. The motherboard is set to support all AMD AM3+ FX processors and AM3 Athlon/Phenom II CPUs, while also supporting 2-way SLI or Crossfire. The company has based the motherboard on the AMD 990X chipset,…
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Fake AMD Processors on Sale Through Amazon
There are reports that fake AMD processors are being sold though Amazon. The chips were sold as AMD A-Series A8-7600 but, upon examination of the underside, appear to be AM2 Athlon 64 X2 5200+ processors that have been falsely labelled. The Amazon listing appears on the UK site, and two…
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AMD Kabini AM1 Athlon 5350 APU (FS1b) Review
Introduction Today we are looking at AMD’s new AM1 platform and given that I am writing with the realms of a traditional “tech enthusiast” website you’ll either think this is a great platform with potential, or just too slow to add anything new to the market. However, I am in…
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AMD Athlon X4 FM2 “Richland” CPUs Now Available
AMD has announced the latest Athlon CPUs for its FM2 socket. Since AMD first released its APUs for the desktop platform, aka with Llano and FM1, we have seen AMD offer Athlon versions of its APUs. These Athlon versions are essentially APUs without the integrated graphics – this allows AMD…
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