AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor

AMD Athlon II X2 Dual-Core Processor

Exceptional Performance

Do more in less time and take advantage of true multi-core performance and true multitasking capability

Get a PC experience optimized to deliver the benefits of the Microsoft® Windows® 7 operating system

Convert music, HD video, and other media fast2,4

Manage all your home media files and run the software you need to create, share, and enjoy your media2,4

Get superior performance and enjoyment from your PC experience with next generation processor technology for hassle free, efficient computing

With next-generation processor technology you can enjoy superior application performance

Convert music and HD video fast2,4

Get superior performance on many of today’s most popular applications for an amazing experience

Enjoy a responsive PC with next-generation AMD Direct Connect Architecture

Get Microsoft Windows 7 support, optimized to deliver the benefits of Microsoft’s latest OS7

Windows 7 is optimized for AMD Athlon II processors, enabling a fast and responsive PC

Experience a simple and engaging everyday PC experience with Windows 7 Home Premium operating system

Windows 7 is tuned to make the most out of the power management features, such as AMD PowerNow! 3.0 Technology, which are built into AMD Athlon II processors

For consumers who want additional features, Microsoft recommends Windows 7 Professional operating system

Stay connected to your friends, family, and even your online digital media

Browse the Internet, send email, run programs, watch movies, and play multiplayer games2,5

Let the AMD Fusion Media Explorer bring your media to life as you share and explore cherished memories

Talk to friends and family through Internet telephone and Skype2,5

Chat online and share with friends on social networking websites like Facebook2,5

Transfer your media quickly to notebooks, smart phones, and portable media players2,4

Manage all your media files and run the software you need to create, share, and enjoy your media, and connect your gadgets. Watch live TV or record and play back movies, TV, and music from your hard drive 2,3,4

Listen to music or watch live and recorded TV, DVDs, photos, and more3,4

Stream music and HD video1,2

Create music and convert HD video files for playback on iPod and other portable media players2,4

See, create, and share online photos, music, and videos4

Record music, movies, and TV programs to your hard drive3,4

View, edit, and print digital photos and images2

Efficiency

Take advantage of energy efficiency you’ll feel good about for a green, cool, and quiet PC experience

Save energy, get the most out of your budget, and help reduce heat and noise to reduce the environmental impact of your PC

Enjoy performance on demand when you need it and power savings when you don’t using next-generation AMD desktop power management technologies

Get improvements over previous-generation AMD Athlon II processors: slash your power consumption by up to 50% when doing basic tasks, 40% when running heavy load, and 50% when idle

Conserve with Energy Star 5.0-compliant, idle-power improvements such as low core voltages and enhanced cache power management

Enjoy a superior desktop experience. Get the most out of your budget with energy efficiency you’ll feel good about for a green, cool, and quiet PC experience

Enjoy a cool, quiet, and green PC experience

Enjoy your PC with confidence knowing you’re using cutting-edge, energy-efficient technologies that use low power and help reduce environmental impact

Help reduce heat and noise

Help extend the life of your system with AMD PowerNow 3.0 Technology, which manages power consumption and helps maximizes performance

Enjoy the benefits of energy efficiency

Enjoy your PC and be energy efficient with next-generation AMD power management technologies

AMD PowerNow! 3.0 technology can enable dramatic power management improvements, automatically, with virtually no noticeable performance impact with efficient 45nm multi-core design, superior power management, and additional performance states

Cool‘n’Quiet Technology – Optimized performance states help save energy while minimizing the latency and overhead of power management. The processor can efficiently respond to user demands, maximizing performance to deliver a superior PC user experience

AMD CoolCore Technology automatically reduces processor energy consumption by dynamically activating or turning off parts of the processor

AMD Smart Fetch Technology enables processor cores to share data before entering a halting state so active cores don’t have to activate to retrieve data

Dual Dynamic Power Management – helps improve platform efficiency by providing on demand memory performance while enabling decreased system power consumption

Multi-Point Thermal Control helps reduce speed and heat when temperature exceeds predefined limits, enabling a cool and quiet PC experience

Take full advantage of amazing energy efficiency that uses less power than the previous generation of AMD Athlon processors, and enjoy environmentally friendly, energy-efficient performance. Use your PC with confidence knowing you’re using cutting-edge green technologies that use low power and help reduce environmental impact

-Use up to 40% less energy when running heavy loads like playing the latest 3D PC games or rendering HD content6

-Slash power consumption by up to 50% when doing basic PC tasks like browsing the Internet or checking email6

-Enjoy significant power savings under light processor loads, or even while running applications in high definition

-Get up to 50% power savings during idle6 with low core voltages and enhanced cache power management

-Get Energy Star 5.0-compliant, idle-power improvements with low core voltages and enhanced cache power management

AMD Phenom X4 9000 Series Quad-Core/AMD Phenom X3 8000 Series Triple-Core

AMD Phenom X4 9000 Series Quad-Core/AMD Phenom X3 8000 Series Triple-Core

Incredible Performance

Featuring true multi-core design and award-winning AMD64 technology with Direct Connect Architecture, AMD Phenom processors deliver the ultimate megatasking experience by providing direct and rapid information flow between processor cores, main memory, and graphics and video accelerators. AMD Phenom processors have the technology to break through the most challenging processing loads. AMD Phenom processors feature low latency access to main memory for amazingly rapid response and phenomenal system performance. AMD Phenom processors were designed for megatasking—running multiple, multi-threaded applications. Surge through the most demanding processing loads, including advanced multitasking, critical business productivity, advanced visual design and modeling, serious gaming, and visually stunning digital media and entertainment.

Phenomenal performance with advanced processor design.

The AMD Phenom processors are the most advanced processors for true multitasking with true quad-core design. Don’t get bogged down by non-native quad-core processors and obsolete front side bus architectures. With an integrated memory controller and shared L3 cache, AMD Phenom processors have low-latency access to main memory for amazingly rapid system response and phenomenal system performance.

Blast through performance bottlenecks.

All AMD Phenom processors feature AMD64 with Direct Connect Architecture to blast through performance bottlenecks. Award winning HyperTransport 3.0 Technology just got faster, providing support for full 1080p high-definition video and extreme total system bandwidth.

Shatter the memory barrier.

Superior AMD64 architecture offers direct access to DDR2 memory. Enjoy virtually unlimited memory options with AMD64 technology and 64-bit Windows Vista. Shatter the memory barrier with AMD Phenom processors and 64-bit Windows Vista.

Intensely Visual

Harness the power of Windows Vista with the AMD Phenom processors. AMD Phenomprocessors divide and conquer the most complex tasks with true multi-core design. Enjoy the ultimate megatasking experience on Windows Vista. Enjoy virtually unlimited memory options with AMD64 technology and 64-bit Windows Vista. Shatter the memory barrier with

AMD Phenom processors and Windows Vista.

STRIKINGLY EFFICIENT

Strikingly efficient AMD PowerNow! Technology (Cool’n’Quiet Technology)

AMD PowerNow! Technology (Cool’n’Quiet Technology) reduces heat and noise so you can experience amazing performance without distraction. Combined with core enhancements that can improve overall power savings, AMD Phenom processors deliver seamless multitasking and optimum energy efficiency. Work, play, talk, and share a PC that’s seen, not heard.

Purchase with Confidence

Founded in 1969, AMD has shipped more than 240 million PC processors worldwide. Customers can depend on AMD64 processors and AMD for compatibility and reliability. AMD processors undergo extensive testing to help ensure compatibility with Microsoft Windows XP, Vista, Windows NT, Windows 2000, as well as Linux and other PC operating systems. AMD works collaboratively with Microsoft and other ecosystem partners to achieve compatibility of AMD processors and to expand the capability of software and hardware products leveraging AMD64 technology. AMD conducts rigorous research, development, and validation to help ensure the continued integrity and performance of its products.

AMD Phenom II Processors Product Brief

AMD Phenom II Processors Product Brief

Visual Experience

Live your life in HD. AMD Phenom II is for high definition entertainment, gaming, creativity, and beyond. With AMD Phenom II processors as the foundation, you'll enjoy a new level of responsiveness and visual intensity. AMD puts high definition computing within everyone’s reach.

Superior technologies for HD video. Enjoy a superior high definition experience for HD videos on you PC. AMD Phenom II processor are the powerful engine behind your fidelity, high definition video entertainment experience. Only AMD puts the Ultimate Visual Experience for HD video within your reach.

Enjoy entertainment beyond your media library. Get HD content online, offline, wherever you want it, however you want it. Your system can handle whatever you dish out - and serve it up on screen in full, high definition glory.

Perfect chemistry. Combine AMD Phenom II processors and ATI Radeon HD graphics to really see the difference. Enjoy smooth video, brilliant videos and immersive games. AMD unleashes visual clarity and responsiveness for what you want to do.

Performance

Do it all. AMD Phenom II processors have the power to do it all. Featuring next-generation quad-core design, they crush even the most demanding tasks. So design it, render it, play it, create it, stream it, HD it. With AMD Phenom II processors, if you can imagine it, you can do it.

Energy Efficient

Make a choice you can feel good about. AMD Phenom II processors were designed with energy efficiency in mind. Capitalizing on AMD's leadership in energy efficiency, they incorporate all of the latest technology that gives you performance when you need it and save power when you don’t.

Look for ENERGY STAR with AMD. Thanks to AMD's power-saving innovations, you can count on machines based on AMD Phenom II processors for the energy efficiency you want and the performance you need.

Silicon Technology from Intel

Silicon Technology from Intel

Intel is committed to continue introducing new and innovative process technologies according to Moore's Law, delivering great leaps in performance, new levels of energy efficiency, and lower cost per function to the end user.

Silicon process

32nm logic technology

Discover how Intel has demonstrated the world's first 32nm logic process with functional SRAM, packing more than 1.9 billion second generation high-k metal gate transistors.

45nm logic technology

See how Intel has used dramatically new materials to develop its next-generation hafnium-based 45nm high-k metal gate silicon technology.

65nm logic technology

Discover advanced dual- and quad-core capabilities with 65nm silicon technology.

Intel Microarchitecture, Codenamed Nehalem

Intel Microarchitecture, Codenamed Nehalem

Intel's latest-generation microarchitecture, first exemplified as the Intel Core i7 processor, represents the next step in faster, multi-core technology that intelligently maximized performance to match your workload. Designed from the ground up to take advantage of 45nm Hi-k next generation Intel Core microarchitecture, Intel microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, unleashes parallel processing performance enabled by an integrated memory controller and Intel QuickPath Technology providing high-speed interconnects per independent processing core.

The next level of multi-core performance

Intel microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, offers the latest in processor innovation, including:

-Dynamic scalability, managed cores, threads, cache, interfaces, and power for energy-efficient performance on-demand.

-Design and performance scalability for servers, workstations, notebooks, and desktops with support for 2-8+ cores and up to 16+ threads with Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (IntelHT Technology), and scalable cache sizes, system interconnects, and integrated memory controllers.

-Intelligent performance on-demand with Intel Turbo Boost Technology taking advantage of the processor's power and thermal headroom. This enables increased performance of both multi-threaded and single-threaded workloads.

-Increased performance on highly-threaded applications with Intel HT Technology, bringing high-performance applications into mainstream computing with 1-16+ threads optimized for new generation multi-core processor architecture.

-Scalable shared memory features memory distributed to each processor with integrated memory controllers and Intel QuickPath Technology high-speed point-to-point interconnects to unleash the performance of future versions of next-generation Intel multi-core processors.

-Multi-level shared cache improves performance and efficiency by reducing latency to frequently used data.

Intel Multi-Core Technology

Intel Multi-Core Technology

Permanently altering the course of computing as we know it, Intel multi-core technology provides new levels of energy efficient performance, enabled by advanced parallel processing and hafnium-based 45nm technology. Incorporating multiple processor execution cores in a single package delivering full parallel execution of multiple software threads, Intel multi-core technology enables higher levels of performance while each core runs at a lower frequency, dividing the power typically required by a higher frequency single core processor with equivalent performance. This provides a breakthrough experience in notebook and desktop PCs, workstations, and servers.

Central to our technology roadmap, Intel multi-core processors based on 45nm are paving the way to the next revolution in processor technology—32nm multi-core processors. By innovating future architectures that can hold dozens or even hundreds of processors on a single die, we're ensuring that Intel technologies will continue to keep pace with demands well into the future.

Intel Core2 Duo Processor

Intel Core2 Duo Processor

Investing in new PCs with Intel Core2 processor family can mean big savings for your business. Delivering faster performance, greater energy efficiency, and more responsive multitasking, desktop PCs with Intel Core2 processor family can help your whole company be more productive.

By combining breakthrough processing speeds with advanced power saving features, desktop PCs with Intel Core2 processor family let you get more done in less time than ever before reducing energy costs by an average of 50 percent.¹ Processors built with Intel's unique 45nm technology offer excellent performance as well as unique energy-saving features that help PCs meet ENERGY STAR requirements. That means reduced power consumption for desktop PCs and lower energy costs for your company.

Features and benefits

-Get the best overall performance with Intel Core2 Duo processor you'll get an arsenal of performance-rich technologies, including up to 6MB of shared L2 cache and up to 1333 MHz Front Side Bus.

-Enjoy 3X faster multitasking performance with multi-core processing combines two independent processor cores in one physical package.¹ Processors run at the same frequency and share up to 6MB of L2 cache and up to 1333 MHZ Front Side Bus for truly parallel computing with over.

-Improve execution time and energy efficiency with more instructions per clock cycle enabled by Intel Wide Dynamic Execution.

-Get smarter, more energy-efficient performance enabled by Intel Intelligent Power Capability.

-Improve system performance enabled by Intel Smart Memory Access, optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth.

-Get higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem enabled by Intel Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core and dual-core processors.

-Accelerate a broad range of applications, , including video, speech and image, photo processing, encryption, financial, engineering and scientific applications, enabled by Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost.

Intel Core2 Quad Processors

Intel Core2 Quad Processors

Introducing the Intel Core2 Quad processor for desktop PCs, designed to handle massive compute and visualization workloads enabled by powerful multi-core technology. Providing all the bandwidth you need for next-generation highly-threaded applications, the latest four-core Intel Core 2 Quad processors are built on 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture enabling faster, cooler, and quieter desktop PC and workstation experiences.

Plus, with optional Intel vPro technology, you have the ability to remotely isolate, diagnose, and repair infected desktop and mobile workstations wirelessly and outside of the firewall, even if the PC is off, or the OS is unresponsive.

Features and benefits

With four processing cores, up to 12MB of shared L2 cache¹ and 1333 MHz Front Side Bus the Intel Core 2 Quad desktops processor delivers amazing performance and power efficiency enabled by the all new hafnium-based circuitry of 45nm Intel Core microarchitecture.

Whether you're encoding, rendering, editing, or streaming HD multimedia in the office or on the go, power your most demanding applications with notebooks and desktops based on the Intel Core 2 Quad processor.

Plus, with these processors you get great Intel technologies built in:

-Intel Wide Dynamic Execution, enabling delivery of more instructions per clock cycle to improve execution time and energy efficiency

-Intel Intelligent Power Capability, designed to deliver more energy-efficient performance

-Intel Smart Memory Access, improving system performance by optimizing the use of the available data bandwidth

-Larger Intel Advanced Smart Cache, optimized for multi-core processors, providing a higher-performance, more efficient cache subsystem.

-Intel Advanced Digital Media Boost, accelerating a broad range of multimedia, encryption, scientific and financial applications by significantly improving performance when executing Intel Streaming SIMD Extension (SSE/SSE2/SSE3) instructions.

-Intel HD Boost, implementing new Intel Streaming SIMD Extension 4 (Intel SSE4) instructions for even greater multimedia performance and faster high definition video editing and encoding.

-Intel Virtualization Technology (Intel VT), enabling greater security, manageability, and utilization.

-Future ready, designed to perform in highly threaded programs with powerful Intel multi-core technology.

Intel Core2 Extreme Processor

Intel Core2 Extreme Processor

Extreme exhilaration. Extreme enjoyment.

Whether it's gaming, digital photography, or video editing, today's high-impact entertainment demands breakthrough technology. Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency.

Intel Core2 Extreme quad-core processor

When more is better—with four processing cores the Intel Core 2 Extreme processor delivers unrivaled¹ performance for the latest, greatest generation of multi-threaded games and multimedia apps.

Now with a new version based on Intel's cutting edge 45nm technology utilizing hafnium-infused circuitry to deliver even greater performance and power efficiency. The Intel Core2 Extreme processor QX9770 running at 3.2 GHz delivers the best possible experience for today's most demanding users.

-12 MB of total L2 cache

-1600 MHz front side bus

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology

Intel Hyper-Threading Technology

Today's Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology) delivers thread-level parallelism on each processor resulting in more efficient use of processor resources—higher processing throughput—and improved performance on the multi-threaded software of today and tomorrow.

An Intel processor and chipset combined with an OS and BIOS supporting Intel HT Technology allows you to:

Run demanding desktop applications simultaneously while maintaining system responsiveness

Keep systems more secure, efficient, and manageable while minimizing impact on productivity

Provide headroom for future business growth and new solution capabilities

Enabling better graphics

Intel HT Technology helps multimedia enthusiasts create, edit, and encode graphically intensive files while running background applications such as virus protection software without compromise to performance.

Improving business efficiency

With Intel HT Technology, multi-threaded software applications can execute threads in parallel within each processor core. When Intel HT Technology and Intel Turbo Boost Technology are combined in processors based on Intel Microarchitecture, codenamed Nehalem, intelligent server processors deliver better performance by adapting to the workload and automatically disabling inactive cores and increasing processor frequency on remaining cores to get the tasks done quicker.

With Intel HT Technology, businesses can:

-Improve business productivity by doing more simultaneously without slowing down

-Provide faster response times for Internet and e-commerce applications, enhancing customer experiences

-Increase the number of transactions that can be processed simultaneously

-Utilize existing 32-bit applications technologies while maintaining 64-bit future readiness

Intel Turbo Boost Technology

Intel Turbo Boost Technology

Intel Turbo Boost Technology is one of the many exciting new features that Intel has built into latest-generation Intel microarchitecture (codenamed Nehalem). It automatically allows processor cores to run faster than the base operating frequency if it's operating below power, current, and temperature specification limits.

Dynamically increasing performance

As an independent and complimentary feature, Intel Hyper-Threading Technology (Intel HT Technology) along with Intel Turbo Boost Technology increases performance of both multi-threaded and single threaded workloads. Intel Turbo Boost Technology is activated when the Operating System (OS) requests the highest processor performance state (P0).

The maximum frequency of Intel Turbo Boost Technology is dependent on the number of active cores. The amount of time the processor spends in the Intel Turbo Boost Technology state depends on the workload and operating environment, providing the performance you need, when and where you need it.

Any of the following can set the upper limit of Intel Turbo Boost Technology on a given workload:

-Number of active cores

-Estimated current consumption

-Estimated power consumption

-Processor temperature

When the processor is operating below these limits and the user's workload demands additional performance, the processor frequency will dynamically increase by 133 MHz on short and regular intervals until the upper limit is met or the maximum possible upside for the number of active cores is reached. Conversely, when any of the limits are reached or exceeded, the processor frequency will automatically decrease by 133 MHz until the processor is again operating within its limits.

Intel Core i7 Processor

Intel Core i7 Processor

Brilliantly fast With faster, intelligent, multi-core technology that applies processing power where it's needed most, new Intel Core i7 processors deliver an incredible breakthrough in PC performance. They are the best desktop processors on the planet.¹

You'll multitask applications faster and unleash incredible digital media creation. And you'll experience maximum performance for everything you do, thanks to the combination of IntelTurbo Boost technology and Intel Hyper-Threading technology (Intel HT technology), which maximizes performance to match your workload.

Product information

2.93 GHz and 2.66 GHz core speed

8 processing threads with Intel HT technology

8 MB of Intel Smart Cache

3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memor

Intel Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition

Intel Core i7 Processor Extreme Edition

Wield the ultimate gaming weapon

Conquer the world of extreme gaming with the fastest performing processor on the planet: the Intel Core i7 processor Extreme Edition. With faster, intelligent multi-core technology that accelerates performance to match your workload, it delivers an incredible breakthrough in gaming performance.

But performance doesn't stop at gaming. You'll multitask 25 percent faster and unleash incredible digital media creation with up to 79 percent faster video encoding and up to 46 percent faster image rendering, plus incredible performance for photo retouching and editing.

In fact, you'll experience maximum performance for whatever you do, thanks to the combination of Intel Turbo Boost technology² and Intel Hyper-Threading technology (Intel HT technology), which activates full processing power exactly where and when you need it most.

Product information

3.20 GHz core speed

8 processing threads with Intel HT technology

8 MB of Intel Smart Cache

3 Channels of DDR3 1066 MHz memory