AMD Spider Platform - Phenom, 790FX, RV670

by Marco Chiappetta — Monday, November 19, 2007, 12:01 AM EDT

Good Morning All. AMD has taken the wraps of their platform for the Phenom series of quad-core processors. Put together the AMD Phenom quad-core processor, along with the new 790FX chipset and RV670, aka Radeon HD 3800 series graphics cards, and you have what AMD affectionately calls “Spider”.

The Phenom 9600 and 9500 processor make their debut today, dressed up in an entirely new platform of technology. And we have all the numbers; yes all the numbers, even from an unreleased Phenom 9700.

AMD Spider Platform - Phenom, 790FX, RV670

Tags: AMD, Phenom, Platform, 790FX, fx, Pi, PLA, id, AM

Marco Chiappetta

Marco's interest in computing and technology dates all the way back to his early childhood. Even before being exposed to the Commodore P.E.T. and later the Commodore 64 in the early ‘80s, he was interested in electricity and electronics, and he still has the modded AFX cars and shop-worn soldering irons to prove it. Once he got his hands on his own Commodore 64, however, computing became Marco's passion. Throughout his academic and professional lives, Marco has worked with virtually every major platform from the TRS-80 and Amiga, to today's high end, multi-core servers. Over the years, he has worked in many fields related to technology and computing, including system design, assembly and sales, professional quality assurance testing, and technical writing. In addition to being the Managing Editor here at HotHardware for close to 15 years, Marco is also a freelance writer whose work has been published in a number of PC and technology related print publications and he is a regular fixture on HotHardware’s own Two and a Half Geeks webcast. - Contact: marco(at)hothardware(dot)com