May 3 CPU benchmark database now includes results of all benchmarks of Pentium, K5, 6x86, Pentium II, and other processors, which I did long time ago, and which you can find on old benchmarks page. The new page is difficult to use, but it should be significantly improved in the near future.

Apr 28 On December 31st of last year I mentioned in the news that I'm working on a new CPU benchmark database. I was planning to finish it in the January of this year, but due to lack of time - I spent lot of time working on other areas of the site - the project was delayed. Today I finished the first phase of this project and put the database online. The database is not limited to specific benchmarks, so you can post anything that may serve as a benchmark. For example, a loop from 1 to 1000 or 10000 written in BASIC language on a very old computer can be considered a benchmark. Another important feature of the database - it is not limited to AMD and Intel processors, or x86 CPUs, and Windows OS. So, you can run any type of benchmark on any OS on any system, and add results to our database. The database search page doesn't have many options yet - it will be improved in the near future.

A few notes about posting your own benchmarks. To post the benchmarks you will need to register in the forum (the administration page and the forum share usernames and passwords), and proceed to the administration page. You don't need to register if you're already a registered user in the forum. Please, don't post bogus benchmarks - I will take them down.

Apr 27 Recently released Phenom 8x50 triple-core processors and energy efficient Athlon X2 4x50 CPUs were added to the site. I also added Sempron X2 CPUs - these processors were not officially launched by AMD, although they're already selling in online stores here in US.

Apr 16 AMD K7 and K8 stepping codes pages were updated today. I also started new pages - AMD K10 stepping codes and Timeline of AMD K10 stepping codes. I don't have many stepping codes for Phenom and Third Generation Opteron processors yet, so if you have any new ones or even existing ones with different date codes please submit them. When you submit them please specify complete second line from the CPU markings, i.e. the stepping code, date code and other rest of the line. This is how submitted stepping code should look like: CAAZB AA 0743FPMW.

Apr 15 I added missing processor modules to Mobile Celeron modules page. The page included only older modules based on 0.25 micron mobile processors. All CPU modules added today are based on 0.18 micron Coppermine core, and have PMN* part numbers.

Apr 13 Earlier this week AMD released new Third-Generation Opteron processors based on B3 core stepping. All these processors were added to the site.

Apr 10 I didn't have any pictures of socket 775 processors on the site, so I added a few of them today. Please proceed to News page to see links to pictures. [more]

Apr 7 Banias core and Dothan core pages were added today.

Apr 6 New pictures of VIA C3 / VIA Cyrix III processors were added today. I've made a few changes to the VIA C3 family and put some basic description of it, but not everything was finished. I will write better description, add information on Nehemiah processors, and create VIA CPU charts in the next week or two. [more]

Apr 2 More than 50 new S-spec numbers were added to the S-Spec database. You can find the list of all added numbers on this page. As you can see there, two thirds of newly added S-Spec numbers are engineering samples, and about half of all added S-Specs are for Core 2 Duo Mobile family.

Apr 1 All Pentium 4 core pages were updated, and I added Pentium D/Pentium Extreme Edition Smithfield and Presler core names.

Mar 31 Socket AM2 page was added to the Sockets section of the site.