The excitement around Intel’s LGA 1156 has been well deserved mostly because it brings the sort of performance enjoyed by LGA 1336 users at a lower overall cost of entry, sometimes aiming a little lower on the performance scale brings…
Read more Intel Core i7 860, premium performance at a reasonable price
Heatsinks are a "good enough" cooling solution that can easily be overwhelmed by newer and hotter running chips so many enthusiasts choose to go with a watercooling setup in order to keep things in check and even that isn’t enough…
Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors have the sort of performance that make people take notice. It’s undisputed performance hasn’t been completely tested in the mid-range so TechSpot went about comparing the Intel Core i7 920 / 860, Core i5…
Read more Mid-range Quad Cores Compared, results not so clear cut
The general idea behind the Intel Core i5 was to bring the company’s high-end Core i7 performance down to the mid-range level and cut some costs along the way. Oddly enough the changes they’ve made and improvements they’ve added, most…
Intel’s Core i7 lineup isn’t only limited to the LGA1366 platform, oh no, it’s being brought into the LGA1156 fold along side the Core i5 lineup. The company’s Core i7 870 will be one of the first chips to be…
A processor’s Level 3 cache is a neat trick in order to improve a system’s performance. With more cores being piled on to processors a unified cache would be difficult to manage given that each core needs access to an…
Read more Intel Becton / Nehalem EX Sports Ring Bus, insane cache bandwidth
AMD has been a little busy working on their upcoming 12 core "Magny-Cours" server chip which should have some IT folks salivating at the prospects. They may just be a little further along than most think as they showed off…
Read more AMD Shows Off 48 core Magny-Cours Server
Nvidia is in a bit of a bind. The GPU maker is all but being shut out of the CPU chipset business by Intel with their next series of CPUs and compelling chipset offerings from AMD are making it difficult…
Read more Nvidia Banks on Smartbooks
The clock speed race has been over for a few years now as both AMD and Intel are focusing their efforts on making multi-core chips and specialized instruction sets to further improve performance and, in some instances, lower power consumption.InfoWorld…
Read more AMD's "Magny-Cours" Drops the Clock-Rate, Ups the Core Count
The Intel Core i7 lineup has been the fastest consumer processor on the market for quite a while now, in fact you’re pretty much stuck if you want to go any faster than what you probably already have. If you…
Read more Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition, for those in Need of Speed
It’s not like it’s a well kept secret or anything but, well, Nvidia would like for you to know that the Microsoft Zune HD will be powered by their Tegra system on a chip processor. Their low-power design sports all…
Read more Nvidia's Tegra Powers the Microsoft Zune HD…Officially we Mean
