CNET

Anandtech takes early look at AMD's AM2 socket

Early benchmark tests conducted by Anandtech on upcoming processors using AMD's AM2 socket show that the company might have a hard time catching the performance expected from Intel's Conroe processor ...
HotHardware

AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 And X2 5000+ Socket AM2, nForce 590 SLI & ATI RD580

Page 5: The nForce 590 SLI: DualNet and First Packet Page 6: More nForce 590 SLI: MediaShield and LinkBoost Page 7: More nForce 590: SLI Memory (EPP) and nTune 5.0 Page 8: nForce 590 Motherboards: ...
Ars Technica

can I put a 6-core AMD processor in my AM2+ motherboard?

I have a biostar a760g M2+ motherboard with a quad core processor currently installed. Since AM3 CPUs are backwards compatible with AM2+ motherboards I was wondering if this would work, and if there ...
Ars Technica

89 watt CPU, can I upgrade to 125 watt?

I have an AM2 socket computer which was sold to me with an Athlon 64 X2 3800+ CPU in it. What can I put in it now as far as upgrading is concerned? AM2 only? AM2+? AM3?<BR><BR>There was a time when I ...
Hartware Net

SiS Announces Full Line of Chipsets for AMD Socket AM2 Processors

These latest chipsets for AMD Socket AM2 covers the full spectrum of desktop and mobile platforms, with two new chipsets for desktop platform: SiS756 and SiS761GX; and four for mobile solution: SiS756 ...