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Live From AMD's Financial Analyst Day We've been waiting on AMD's Financial Analyst Day for more information on how the company plans to approach new and current businesses moving forward. Ahead of the big event, AMD pre-briefed us on the news. OpenCL In Action: Post-Processing Apps, Accelerated We've been bugging AMD for years now, literally: show us what GPU-accelerated software can do. Finally, the company is ready to put us in touch with ISVs in nine different segments to demonstrate how its hardware can benefit optimized applications. Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium? We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips. Presented By: AMD's FX-8150 After Two Windows 7 Hotfixes And UEFI Updates Introducing a new processor architecture takes a colossal effort. AMD's modular Bulldozer design ran into its share of resistance at launch. Can a handful of software updates turn the company's flagship FX-8150 into the powerhouse AMD promised? Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: January 2012 This month, we talk about new Llano-based APUs with unlocked core and graphics clock multipliers, Intel's upcoming Atom CPU refresh, and a few notable price adjustments. Then, we bid farewell to a few favorite processors that are quickly disappearing. AMD's Bulldozer Architecture: Overclocking Efficiency Explored AMD?s FX processor line-up was supposedly designed with efficiency in mind, according to AMD. We're putting this claim to the test, assessing the Bulldozer architecture at a number of different clock rates and comparing the results to Intel's CPUs. Intel Core i7-3930K And Core i7-3820: Sandy Bridge-E, Cheaper Core i7-3960X is undeniably fast. But at more than $1000, it?s hardly an option for most enthusiasts. We got our hands on the Core i7-3930K and Core i7-3820 to gauge their overclocked performance and determine if they?re able to best the flagship part. Presented By: In Pictures: Tom's Hardware Recovers Gold And Silver From CPUs Processors are responsible for operating on all of your precious data. But did you know that they also are made up, in part, of precious metals? We're going to show you how to recover the gold and silver hidden away inside your old CPUs.