October 13, 2011 News from Around the Web

“We’ve already provided a fair bit of coverage on the new FX-8150 CPU from AMD and it hasn’t all been favorable for the team over at AMD. If you haven’t looked yet, I highly recommend you check out our other pieces that cover the VGA testing side of things and my editorial Shi**y Marketing Killed the Bulldozer Star which has really gained traction over the last few days.

Today we test the video card side of things a bit more and see what goes on when we start to make use of CrossFireX on the 990FX platform. The 990FX chipset shows some good potential and it’s going to be interesting to see what happens when we start to make use of all those PCIe lanes that are on offer.”