Intel’s Nehalem architecture, commonly found in the company’s Core i7 desktop chips, has been tearing up benchmarks for a few months now completely outclassing the competition, and its own previous generation, by a wide margin.The company has been working to…
Read more Intel Xeon W5580, Nehalem Goes Upmarket
Trying to put together a computer that’s eco-friendly, or low noise, means you’re going to have to give up a bit of performance for quite a bit of power saving. Case in point are the Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S…
Read more Intel Core 2 Quad Q8200S/Q9550S, Quad Cores Go Low-Power
Living out your days waiting for your computer to finish up its workload? Having trouble keeping up with the enemy in the latest games? If you’re still toiling under the constraints of a dual core, or *gasp* single core*, processor…
Does AMD have a winner (for enthusiasts) on its hands? According to this post in the XtremeSystems forums, an engineering sample of the AMD Phenom II X4 995 — a 3.2 GHz part, mind you — was “easy” to…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 995 OC'ed to 4GHz
With all of the hub-bub surrounding Intel and AMD’s high end chips you may be shocked to find out that there are still those that may prefer a dual-core CPU of the Core 2 era, especially on the enthusiast front….
Read more Intel Core 2 Duo E7400 VS E8600, A Tale Of Two Caches
The forward march of progress has finally reached AMD’s Phenom II CPU. The AM3 socket allows for a new lineup of chips that take advantage of DDR3’s massive memory bandwidth and lower power usage. The Tech Report has a look…
Read more AMD Socket AM3 Phenom II Chips, Don't Get Confused Now
The multi-core approach has allowed for some impressive number crunching gains, unfortunately the larger these chips get the more power hungry they are. Intel has gone through the trouble of binning their chips and has put out the Core 2…
AMD’s quad-core Phenom processor had a bit of a struggle keeping up with Intel’s offerings, so what better way is there to even the playing field with further tweaks to their design? The Phenom II promises better performance and a…
Read more AMD Phenom II, A Refresh To Be Proud Of
Hindsight is always 20/20, be it that poor stock pick or choosing that exotic dish at the restaurant there’s no going back on regretful decisions. Thankfully bit-tech has compiled a list of the best hardware of 2008 so you can…
Read more 2008 Hardware Awards, AKA What You Should've Gotten In The First Place
Here’s a sampling of articles and reviews making news this past week:Cases, Cooling, and Power SuppliesAMD Athlon X2 7750 Black Edition – TrustedReviewsCoolIT Domino A.L.C. CPU Cooler Review – FuturelooksCore i7 Christmas ’08 Graphics Performance – bit-techIkonik Zaria A20 PC…
Read more Sunday Roundup: December 21st, 2008
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…
Read more Splitsville for AMD
