{"id":3911,"date":"2009-05-21T17:52:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-21T15:52:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"amd-launching-dual-core-phenom-ii-in-june","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/hardware\/3911-amd-launching-dual-core-phenom-ii-in-june","title":{"rendered":"AMD launching Dual-Core Phenom II in June"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the cutting edge of consumer CPU technology has completely moved on to Quad-Core, AMD is preparing to launch its first 45nm Dual Core CPU.<\/p>\n<p>The Phenom II X2 500, codenamed Callisto, will most probably blaunched at Computex in June. Callisto will essentially be a quad-core Deneb, as seen in the regular Quad Core Phenom II CPUs, with the obvious exception that it will have two of its four cores disabled.<\/p>\n<p>The Phenom II X2 550 Black Edition will be clocked at a hefty 3.1GHz and will feature 2x512KB L2 cache as well as an impressive 6MB L3 cache.<\/p>\n<p>Some rumors indicate that certain motherboards will be able to unlock Callisto&rsquo;s two dormant cores, effectively giving users a quad-core CPU for the price of a dual-core.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callisto makes dual-core Phenom II computing a reality<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardware"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}