ASRock has announced that its AM3 and AM3+ motherboard lineup will provide support for the latest FX-series of Bulldozer CPUs from AMD starting from the products bearing the GeForce 7025/nForce 630a chipsets all the way up to the high-end ones using the AMD 990FX chipset.

Cooler Master has introduced a new CPU cooler to add to its lineup, the Hyper 612S, a tower type heatsink with a copper base and six copper heatpipes connected to airflow optimized aluminum fins cooled by a sleeve bearing 120mm fan capable of 1300 rpm (52.6 CFM) that also features a "silent mode adapter" (intermediate resistor) that slows it down to 900 RPM (36.4 CFM).

Gigabyte have just rolled out another motherboard to its GA-990FXA lineup, the GA-990FXA-UD5. As the name suggests, Gigabyte have based this board on the latest AMD 990FX Nothbridge and SB950 Southbridge combo. The GA-990FXA-UD5 supports the AM3+ socket including the upcoming AMD Bulldozer series CPUs and is also compatible with earlier AM3 Phenom II CPUs.

Is power consumption important to you? It should be, because with the money spent on electricity bills you could get better components, gifts, or anything else you want.

This is why you should be more than pleased to know that AMD has just announced an ultra low power dual-core CPU, based on the C3 revision of the Regor core. It's called the Athlon II X2 270u, and you'd do well to remember than name, because it's probably going to be one of the best choices available for low-profile computers.

The latest CPUs from Intel have extreme performance written all over them, especially if you can afford a top-of-the line CPU like the i7 980-X Extreme Edition. 6 cores, 12 threads, and 12MB of L3 cache are certainly worth the large price tag, but just consider the fact that, for the price of one i7 980-X Extreme Edition CPU, you could be getting an entire PC with a AMD processor that offers 6 cores as well!

We know, performance wise, the new AMD Thuban core processors don't come very close to Intel's beast, but you're going to have a tough time getting any CPU to use all of its six cores to the maximum anyway, unless you're using your computer for intensive rendering or other CPU consuming tasks, in which case you'll certainly want the fastest CPU available, no matter the cost.