With Intel’s Core i7 just around the corner you’ll want to take a look at Custom PC’s warnings against running memory too far overvolted with the new CPUs. Here’s the gist: The warning was revealed when XFastest published some photos…
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Intel’s next generation of processors promise to be insanely quick at all manner of tasks be they productivity, multimedia in nature, or gaming. Interestingly Tech ARP is reporting that the Core i7 CPU and its supporting X58 Express chipset…
Read more Intel Core i7/X58 Chipset Prepped for Launch (Maybe)
AMD is officially anouncing its split up into two entities later today according to the New York Times. It’s two seperate halves will handle their respective businesses with one side designing chips while the other manufactures the company’s processors…
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AMD’s quad-core offerings have been playing second fiddle to Intel’s in most performance categories and they’re not exactly power usage friendly given they 65nm manufacturing makeup which also trails Intel’s 45nm process. Things are set to change though with AMD’s…
Read more AMD's "Deneb" an Enthusiast's Dream, or so the Rumor Goes
AMD and Intel have a that good old brutal chip selling competition going on all over. This year both companies released their new mobile platforms, Puma on the AMD side with Intel bringing up its Centrino 2. They each…
Read more AMD Puma and Intel Centrino 2 Face-Off
Intel’s low-end chips offer up the right mix of performance and, for the enthusiast crowd, that extra bit of headroom for all manner of tweaking. X-bit labs has a look at the Core 2 Duo E7300 and Pentium Dual-Core E5200…
Read more Core 2 E7300/Pentium Dual-Core E5200 Reviewed, Budget CPU Goodness
AMD’s Phenom processor may not be the powerhouse CPU everyone expected it to be but its low cost of entry means you can get into the quad-core game on the cheap. The Black Edition X4 9950 represents the company’s…
Read more AMD Phenom X4 9950 Black Edition, Tweakers Delight
The Sony/Toshiba/IBM Cell Broadband Engine had long been promised to extend beyond the console world (see Sony PlayStation 3) into much more important roles. The chip has seen use in supercomputers and a modified version has been see in select…
Read more SpursEngine Headed to the Desktop
AnandTech has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 CPU. The chip has a few major upgrades to go along with its die shrink which make it one of the fastest chips, once it’s released next month, and…
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Fudzilla has details on Intel’s upcoming monster of a quad-core QX9770 chip. They displayed it at the Intel Developer Forum, currently taking place in Taiwan, and brought back help from XtremeSystems in order to push the chip to new heights….
Read more Intel QX9770 Demoed
t-break has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor. The chip is, currently, Intel’s fastest consumer class CPU offering four cores running at 3GHz. A beast of a CPU and enthusiast favorite considering its unlocked mutiplier allows…
Read more Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6580 Reviewed
