Taking a closer look at AM2
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AM2 was supposed to be the things of the future delivering the ultimate performance where socket 939 left off. With more memory bandwidth and a whole host of other features the new socket has not lived up to it’s much hyped beginnings.
XYZcomputing takes a look at the AMD AM2 to see just how it performs. Or more specifically, just what makes this computer processor that little bit unexciting.
AMD has a hard time keeping up with massive Intel, who have built such a strong market position that even a series of messups have managed to put much of a damper on their market sector. And although AMD were able to make the best of those blunders by Intel, Intel has now come back in force to once again compete with AMD.
XYZcomputing takes you through the overview to see what’s going on.

