It seems that AMD's AM3 Phenom II has a memory problem. The problem rears its ugly head when you have more than one DDR3-1333 (or greater) module per channel.

We test the AMD Phenom II X6 series processors today. A 289 USD Phenom II X6 1095T Black Edition processor all of the sudden can compete with say a quad-core Core i7 950 and 965 when it comes to ...

The new additions include the quad-core Phenom II X4 910, which runs at 2.6GHz with 8MB of cache, and the 800-series quad-core processors, which run at between 2.5GHz and 2.6GHz and have 6MB of cache.

More details have emerged about how AMD's forthcoming six-core desktop CPUs, the Phenom II X6 lineup (a.k.a. Thuban), plan to handle all that processing power when most applications still can't ...