New CPU sockets and platform shifts are a necessary evil. On the one hand, depending on the type of PC user you are and how often you upgrade, it's what facilitates a larger-than-normal expenditure as ...

AMD has revamped its processor lineup from top to bottom, moving 13 CPUs to the new Socket AM2 architecture and releasing two brand-new Socket AM2 CPUs. The Athlon 64 X2 5000+ and the Athlon FX-62 are ...

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 today announced the Athlon 64 FX-62 and the Athlon 64 X2 5000+, two new dual-core processors based on AMD's new socket AM2 design. The two chips take over the top spots in the Athlon 64 FX and ...

Hey all,<BR><BR>I am looking at upgrading my Dell to help with video encoding. It has a 3200+ single core processor in it and I am looking at getting something along the lines of a X2 5000 – 6000+. I ...

With each and every Phenom II or Athlon II review we'll keep explaining this; AMD has an approach we here at Guru3D appreciate very much. That is to try to stick as long as they can with a processor ...

Ask AMD why launch Socket AM2 -- the hub of a platform shift that sees them standardise on a socket for their CPUs across their entire desktop product line -- now, and they'll largely lay it at the ...