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Technology/AMD Processors
The AMD Opteron Quad Core processor was originally released in April 2007 and Codenamed Barcelona the AMD Opteron Quad Core is a single-chip, native quad-core design. Each of those cores have been substantially revised to improve performance per clock cycle through a variety of tweaks, some big and some small.
The latest release the Opteron 2381 HE codenamed Shanghai was released in April 2009.
The cores now have a wider, 32-byte instruction fetch, and the floating-point units can execute 128-bit SSE operations in a single clock cycle (including the Supplemental SSE3 instructions Intel included in its Core-based Xeons). Accordingly, the Barcelona core has more bandwidth throughout in order to accommodate higher throughput—internally between units on the chip, between the L1 and L2 caches, and between the L2 cache and the north bridge/memory controller.
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Technology/AMD Processors
In May 2005, AMD introduced its first "Multi-Core" Opteron CPUs. Instead of just sticking to microprocessors to the sam bit of silicone as had been done before, each physical Opteron chip contained two separate processor cores. This effectively doubled the computing-power available to each motherboard processor socket. 
One socket can now deliver the performance of two processors, two sockets can deliver the performance of four processors, and so on. Because motherboard costs increase dramatically as the number of CPU sockets increase, multicore CPUs enable a system of higher performance to be built at lower cost.
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Technology/AMD Processors
The Phenom range comprises triple-core versions ( the current release is codenamed Toliman) which belong to the Phenom 8000 series and quad cores (the current release is codenamed Agena) in the AMD Phenom X4 9000 series.
AMD considers the quad core Phenoms to be the first "true" quad core design, as these processors are a monolithic multi-core design (all cores on the same piece of silicon die), unlike Intel's Core 2 Quad series which are a multi-chip module (MCM) design.
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Technology/AMD Processors
The Athlon 64 X2 was the first dual-core CPU designed by AMD. Released in 4 'steppings' codenamed, Manchester, Toledo, Windsor and Brisbane, the Athlon 64 X2 is essentially a processor consisting of two Athlon 64 cores joined together on one die with additional control logic.
Originaly released in August 2005 as the Athlon 64 X2 3600+, the latest revision is the 'Brisbane' Black Edition Athlon 64X2 6000+ which was released in June 2008.
 
The cores share one dual-channel memory controller, are based on the E-stepping model of Athlon 64 and, depending on the model, have either 512 or 1024 KB of L2 Cache per core.
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Technology/AMD Processors
The Athlon 64 is a single core microprocessor,the first version was released on September 23, 2003 and saw numerous upgrades and improvements the last release being the Athlon 64 3800+ Codenamed Lima and released in February 2007.
The AMD Athlon 64's main competitors are: Intel's Pentium III and Pentium 4.
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Technology/AMD Processors
The Sempron Codenamed Sparta replaced the AMD Duron processor and competes against Intel's Celeron D processor.Originally released in July 2004 under the Codename 'Thoroughbred-B' the AMD Sempron has been through numerous revisions the latest being the Sempron X2 2300 which was released in August 2008.AMD coined the name from the Latin semper, which means always, to suggest the Sempron is suitable for daily use, practical, and part of everyday life.
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Technology/Intel Processors
Itanium is the brand name for 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture (formerly called IA-64). Intel has released two processor families using the brand: the original Itanium and the Itanium 2. 
Starting on November 1, 2007, new members of the second family are again called Itanium. The processors are marketed for use in enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems. The architecture originated at Hewlett-Packard (HP), and was later jointly developed by HP and Intel.
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Technology/Intel Processors
Intel's revenge on AMD maybe the Xeon Chip, which threatens to break speed processing records and leapfrog AMD technology. While AMD was busy starting legal issues against Intel, it was Intel who was busy working on the next technology for the future of the industry.
Is the new Intel Chip indeed all it is cracked up to be? Some say it is all that and more. In fact this dual-core chip for servers will run at 2.80 GHz. A multi-processor version of the chip will be out in two-months and the price will $1,043.00 which competes nicely against anything competing. We are taking an upgraded processor with a faster bus speed, better memory capacity in a new chip set. Can Advanced Micro Devices with it’s Opteron processor continue their frontal assault on Intel.
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Technology/Intel Processors
In the months leading up to the release of Core 2 Duo processor - also referred to as "Conroe" for desktops - many questions remained unanswered. Did Intel make the necessary changes to compete with AMD's processor advantage?
The Core 2 Duo is the successor of NetBurst micro-architecture that has powered most Intel processors since 2000. The Pentium brand name - created in 1993 - no longer exists with the release of Core 2. Also, this is the first reunion of Intel's notebook and desktop product lines since Pentium M was released apart from Pentium 4 in 2003.
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Technology/AMD Processors
For a long time Intel has been leading the market in processor sales and popularity but AMD is finally putting a stop to that. With the release of their Athlon 64 processor, with 64 bit computing capabilities, they have been slowly but surely regaining the market back from Intel.
The Athlon 64 processors have been around for a while now and they have proven themselves the market leaders in processing power. As we know AMD processor run at a lot slower speeds than Intel processors making them cooler to run. This has eliminated the need for expensive cooling equipment and opened the doorway for overclocking.
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Technology/AMD Processors
Selecting a board from the vast range of AMD motherboards out there is certainly a daunting task. Its all too easy to select an incompatible or badly designed motherboard that will cause slow downs or system failures when you set up your new computer.
Here's a personal list of the top 5 AMD Athlon motherboards which I'd recommend. Check them out - they're excellent motherboards which will last you a long time.
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