Air cooling has made quite a few strides over the past two years with features such as direct pipe contact and whacky fin profiles improving performance to levels rivaling more exotic cooling, and expensive, options such as water cooling. Then…
Read more Water Cooling Versus High End Air Cooling, Step Into The Arena
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…
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
If there’s something that can ruin your brand new PC build it’s a massive tower heatsink that sticks out way too far stopping your PC’s panel from closing properly. Of course the majority of new coolers sport such a configuration…
Read more Thermaltake ISGC-100 CPU Heatsink, An Alternative to the Tower Style
The European Union has been looking into Intel’s dealings with computer manufacturers over the past few years, checking allegations into whether or not they took anti-competitive measures when dealing with their chief rival AMD. Reuters is claiming that EU regulators…
Read more EU Likely to Find Intel Anti-Competitive, Fines Inbound?
To the common PC user one heatsink will look just like any other heatsink, then again the normal PC user doesn’t go mucking about the insides of his PC. Performance enthusiasts are always on the lookout for something to make…
Read more CPU Heatsinks Compared AKA That's A Lot Of Heatpipes
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
There’s something to be said about a new CPU that can perform faster than its predecessor all within the same thermal envelope and, thankfully, is capable of “socketing” into place so you can keep your old hardware.AMD’s upcoming 6-core “Istanbul”…
Read more AMD Istanbul Peformance Video, 6-Cores Are In Fact Speedy
AMD is setting itself up for a June launch of its next CPU. The chip code named “Istanbul” will fall into its Opteron lineup of workstation and server processors. Given its 6 core design and virtualization focused tweaks it’ll…
