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
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
Hot Hardware is seeing if the linchpin of AMD’s Dragon platform can breathe fire by putting the quad-core 3.2GHz Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition through its paces. This “Hot Hardware Approved” processor may trail behind Intel’s Core i7, but…
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…
If you were wondering what Intel had in store in terms of new chip decals, you’re in luck. Cnet has scored a matrix of the “badges” you’ll soon see festooning new PCs. The new decals have a new chip die…
Read more Intel Chip Logoverload
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
