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
Heatsinks depend on quite a few tricks in order to get the best possible performance out of the materials at hand and when you’ve hit those limits you simply go a size or two bigger.Then again that sort of effort…
Read more Titan's TTC-NC05TZ/NPW "SKALLI", maximizing cooling with massive heatpipes
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
Today’s processors pump out enough heat to keep the top coolers busy enough without having to worry about the surrounding environment. Those beefy CPUs require equally beefy power regulation and chipsets that don’t get quite as much airflow attention.The Nexus…
Read more Nexus FLC-3000 CPU Cooler, the tower Heatsink gone and Toppled Over
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
We should all be very well versed by now on just how fast solid state drives are compared to their spindle based ancestors, but how fast are they when compared to each other? Controller chips and flash memory modules differ…
Read more SSD Roundup, Speedy Storage Solutions
The trend for most netbook manufacturers has been to make as colorful and shiny a design as you can in order to draw the customer’s eyes to your product, fortunately for your unassuming self Lenovo has a model to keep…
The miniITX form factor has been making a bit of a name for itself, what with all of the hype surrounding the Intel Atom which has led to quite a few motherboards based around the design (although you’ll find some…
The enthusiast set tends to zero in on the products that give them the most bang for the buck, they also tend to take things to the extreme which can lead to those products failing mighty quickly so saving a…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 965 BE CPU, from boxed chip to Overclocked in Record Time
AMD has had a rough time at the high-end of the processor market. The company hasn’t had an answer to Intel’s Core i7 lineup but that’s ok with them as they’re putting up a good battle with the high-end Core…
Read more AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition Launched, Bumping the Clock Rates
