The Phenom II lineup by AMD was updated by the company on Monday with latest quad-core and its first triple-core Phenom II processors, across the DDR-3 memory transition in the process.

Other than this, five new Phenom II processors, three of which are quad-core chips: the 2.5-GHz, Phenom II X4 805; the 2.6-GHz X4 810; and the 2.6-GHz X4 910, were also launched by AMD. The 2.6-GHz Phenom II X3 710 and the new 2.8-GHz X3 720 "Black Edition", included in others, are basically the maiden triple-core Phenom II microprocessors by AMD.  

Meanwhile, an important and decent upgrade is the quiet shift to AMD's AM3 architecture. Till this time, AMD's Phenom II line has been sold in collaboration with the AM2+ architecture that itself is tied to mainstream DDR-2 memory. More advanced, higher-performance DDR-3 memory is used by the AM3 platform.  

David Schwarzbach, a senior marketing manager at AMD reported, “The AM3 differences there are very minor. You can take an AM3-packaged processor; slip it into am AM2+ socket with BIOS upgrade, and in with the vast majority of channel boards, your system will work immediately.”