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…
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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
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…
Fudzilla has details on Intel’s upcoming monster of a quad-core QX9770 chip. They displayed it at the Intel Developer Forum, currently taking place in Taiwan, and brought back help from XtremeSystems in order to push the chip to new heights….
Read more Intel QX9770 Demoed
t-break has a look at the Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor. The chip is, currently, Intel’s fastest consumer class CPU offering four cores running at 3GHz. A beast of a CPU and enthusiast favorite considering its unlocked mutiplier allows…
Read more Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6580 Reviewed
