AMD announces tri-core, tweaked quad-core Phenoms CPUs
AMD has formally unwrapped its three-core Phenom X3 8000 series, along with new versions of its existing quad-core Phenom X4 processors, now known as the 9050 line.Interestingly, the The 8650 is 27 per cent faster than the 6000+ at converting an “HD video file” to a mobile screen-sized MPEG 4 file.
This is a perfect opportunity to ask a totally unrelated question I’ve always wondered about… (Keep in mind this is coming from a total computer illiterate…) Remember when newer CPU’s would just have higher and higher MHz and eventually GHz? What made the computer companies change direction and go with multiple cores? I know you can read up on it on, say, wikipedia, but it’s too confusing. Would be nice to get a bottom-line answer from a fellow digger. Thanks! *sorry about off-topic-ness*
