A quick call with AMD has revealed that the company will soon be releasing a micro-code update for the fresh-out-of-the-gate Athlon II X2 series processor.The processors, while sharing the microarchitecture of the Phenom II, have slightly altered dies which drop the L3 cache in favor of a bigger 1MB per core L2 cache \u2013 which AMD hints somewhat lowered the thermals and allowed them to market the faster processor. There was also an assurance from AMD \u2013 in not so many words \u2013 that other speed grades are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A quick call with AMD has revealed that the company will soon be releasing a micro-code update for the fresh-out-of-the-gate Athlon II X2 series processor.The processors, while sharing the microarchitecture of the Phenom II, have slightly altered dies which drop the L3 cache in favor of a bigger 1MB per core L2 cache \u2013 which AMD hints somewhat lowered the thermals and allowed them to market the faster processor. There was also an assurance from AMD \u2013 in not so many words \u2013 that other speed grades are Continue reading