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…
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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
The general idea behind most CPU coolers nowadays is to pack in as many heatpipes as possible to pull heat away from the base on to a a slew of aluminum fins for the fan to dissipate, a look at…
Read more Titan Fenrir CPU Cooler, a huge chunk of cooling potential
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
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
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
While the outright processor performance tests will heavily favor Intel’s latest and greatest CPU when it comes to gaming things aren’t so clear cut. Many of today’s latest titles depend more on the graphics card in order to achieve higher…
Read more AMD Phenom II vs Intel Core i7, Gaming Value Tested
Sometimes you’re going for all out performance so the best option in cooling off your components is a necessity, other times you just need something cheap to cool off your processor. We’re betting most users fall into the latter category.ProClockers…
