The good Great performance Good value proposition Unlocked multiplier The bad Multimedia performance suffers compared to Intel AMD has been targeting mainstream computing for a while now. Its combination of good performance for affordable price has seen it claw back into the graphics market with its most recent generation of cards, and now it looks positioned to do the same with the CPU side of the business. While it doesn't intend to challenge Intel's top performing Core i7 CPUs for now, AMD's latest, the Phenom X4 955 Black Edition (BE), launches a broadside across the bow of Intel's mainstream quad-core processors — in particular the Core 2 Q9550

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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition