AMD’s Athlon lineup was, at one point in time, their flagship consumer processor, that banner was passed along to the Phenom lineup leaving the poor old Athlon brand to take over the low-end processor branding duties.Of course there’s always…
Processors
AMD’s Phenom II CPU lineup brought the company some much needed attention at a time when the competition was trouncing them in every benchmark imaginable. Well they’re still doing that but at least they’re producing a chip that can hold…
Read more AMD's Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition CPU, Cheap Greased Lightning
Intel has a good thing going with their Core i7 lineup of chips. It’s the fastest consumer grade processor available and absolutely tears through any application you throw its way. Of course the company’s planned Core i5 series may…
Read more Intel Prepping 6 Core LGA1366 Nehalem
The piecemeal approach to testing CPUs can be confusing when you have to take into account previous reviews and performance numbers, not to mention newer platforms are always released so while the normal testing platforms that are used may stay…
AMD’s processors aren’t the type of performance champs you’ve come to expect, on the workstation and server front things tend to get a bit stranger.People in the market for new servers are looking beyond rendering speeds and are focusing…
ATI’s Avivo video transcoding software has been around for quite a while now promising all of the grand GPGPU enhancements that go along with using their high powered graphics chip to do some computing work outside of pushing pixels….
Read more ATI GPU Transcoding Receives AMD's Helpful Hotrodding
Intel’s Atom processor and its antiquated chipset combination have made themselves quite popular by offering “good enough” performance for the netbook and nettop markets, of course users want something that’s quite a bit more powerful as time goes on.According to…
Read more Next Generation Atoms Detailed, Pineview/Pine Trail Platform Details
Intel’s Hyper-threading technology was supposed to improve a system’s performance by keeping the CPU fully stocked with work to do.In reality its performance benefits weren’t fully realized by previous operating systems and, in some cases, could cause performance to…
Read more Windows 7 to Leverage Hyper-threading Performance Enhancements
Nvidia’s Ion platform has been touted as a great compromise between good performance and low power usage. Hard to wonder why considering its powerful, yet integrated, GPU and Intel Atom CPU combined make it an intriguing choice for HTPC…
Read more Zotac's MiniITX Nvidia Ion Motherboard
Nothing gets the heart going like a brand new processor launch, of course it’s not as impressive when it’s a dual-core chip but we’ll take any excitement we can get. It’s AMD’s turn at trying to rile up enthusiasts…
Read more AMD Athlon X2 7850 Black Edition Launched, Reviewed
Intel’s Core i7 CPU certainly has the muscle to be called a performance chip. Its as of yet released Core i7 975 XE ups the ante with a much faster clock speed and, better still, may be host to a…
Read more X-bit labs Tests The Intel Core i7 975 XE D0 Stepping
