As you know, AMD today released their newest processor, the Phenom in both server and desktop version. Here's our round up of the Phenom reviews from around the web. Enjoy!

•  AMD's Quad-Core Barcelona: Defending New Territory
• AMD Phenom Preview: Barcelona Desktop Benchmarks
• Legit Reviews:AMD Introduces Quad-Core AMD Opteron Processors - Barcelona (press release)

Yea...this thing is a little bit crazy...an electric drag motorcycle that has the potential to outrun any top fuel drag bike in the world . It runs the quarter mile right now in 8.168 seconds at 155mph. The 0-60 mph time is 1.04 seconds . Apparently it's really hard to hold on....

We put in another 110 of the most powerful Li-Ion cells in the world to make a total of 990 A123Systems M1 cells in the bike. This pushed the power output to over 350 HP. We are now able to draw 1575 amps from the 375 volt, 7.5 kW-hr battery pack... We could make 7 or 8 runs without recharging if we wanted...This includes the burn-out and the more than 2 mile round trip back to the pits!

 http://www.killacycle.com/

And now they say 'No Recall Needed ' Or, as I like to put it, 'pay no attention to the man behind the curtain'.

At an AMD organized event to promote its ATI Radeon HD 2000-series graphics products in Taiwan, the GPU maker reiterated that the recently discovered issue which has lead to defective Radeon 2600 and 2400 graphics cards shipping to channels was under control, and that a recall request was not needed.

Was it a fake?

More bad news for AMD \ ATI.

 AMD's official graphics card diagnostic and validation software was recently discovered to have a bug that failed to detect defective ATI Radeon HD 2400 and 2600 graphics cards, according to sources at graphics card makers. Although the problem can be easily solved by reapplying the BIOS, because AMD's software did not detect the defect before shipping, the cards will now need to be returned to the makers to be restored. One first-tier maker has recalled over 20,000-30,000 units already, noted the sources.

Here's a beta review and slideshow of Unreal Tournament 3, in case you are interested.

One of the best things about Comic-Con 2007 last week was the public unveiling of Unreal Tournament 3's beta for the PC.

This just in, it looks like Microsoft will be further dropping the price of its successful Xbox 360. No doubt this isn't good news for Sony's pricey PS3 console.

 Microsoft Xbox 360 Premium plunges $50, Elite ebbs $30, Core cut $20

 Read on for more details.