AMD Accelerates Award-Winning amd PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY, CODENAME "Dragon," with new AMD Phenom II™ X4 PROCESSOR: Some FAQs to help your way out

By A Bisht and Mani Raj

 

Questions make things easy to understand:-


Q. What is Dragon?

Ans. AMD's Award-Winning PLATFORM TECHNOLOGY is codenamed "Dragon.

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Q. What is special about AMD Phenom™ II 955 Black Edition processor?

Ans. It’s company’s fastest processor ever.

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Q. What does this processor offers to its users ?

Ans. --Runs at a frequency of 3.2 GHz.
         --Gives performance users massive headroom
        -- Stunning HD visuals
        --Backwards compatibility and DDR3 support
        -- At very affordable prices, the competition will find hard to beat.
        --Also gives users the choice to upgrade whenever the time is right for them.
        --Upgrades can be done without having to purchase multiple new components.

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Q. What are the finer details?

Ans. AMD announced a platform refresh today for Dragon platform technology, including the new AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Edition processor. With this platform refresh, AMD is combining its fastest processor with its most powerful GPU to deliver high definition video entertainment. Its providing "beyond HD" resolutions which allow gamers to take the latest games to the extreme.

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Q. Who should get this processor ?

Ans. Its AMD's fastest ever quad-core processor that brings all the capabilities - gamers, enthusiasts and do-it-yourselfers, have expected from AMD. Hence they can add it to their shopping cart.

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Q. What will they get from AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Edition processor?

Ans. --world record setting performance.
        --High-speed DDR3 memory support
        --AMD OverDrive™ 3.0 technology.

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Q. How will this change the user experience?

Ans. By giving users more control over their computing experience.

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Q. What are the new features of AMD Phenom™ II X4 955 Black Edition processor?

Ans.   -- AMD Black Edition Memory Profile lets users create custom profiles which can easily overclock   known DDR3 memory which in turn can quickly and easily achieve optimum high speed DDR3 performance.
     -- AMD Smart Profiles can automatically tune its performance for certain
    applications, whether its for maximum performance or a quiet and smooth operation. The users get to   choose from a set of pre-defined application profiles or they can create their own profiles to personalize their experience.

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Q. What does The Dragon technology refresh consist of?

Ans. The Dragon technology refresh consists of the new AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition processor, AMD 7-Series chipsets and award winning ATI Radeon™ HD 4890 graphics. --------