Energy friendly computer hardware tends to cut out features or run things a bit slower in order to get their power usage in check. Then there are those cases where they cherry-pick the best of the best in order to make things run quickly and with less of a power load. This is one such […]
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Computer processors can be an expensive proposition to make as the demands of power users force the chip makers to come up with designs that use more and more die-grabbing cache to feed the increasing core counts. The bigger the chip die the more it will cost….
As with most technologies the more time passes the cheaper things tend to get, for some products that day can’t seem to come around soon enough but when the day finally arrives it’s about as sweet as any other for…
Intel’s Core i5 and i7 processors have the sort of performance that make people take notice. It’s undisputed performance hasn’t been completely tested in the mid-range so TechSpot went about comparing the Intel Core i7 920 / 860, Core i5…
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Processor launches are a funny thing. There’s a whole lot of hoopla over the high end chips with all manner of benchmarks and quotes on how their latest product will make things run faster, cooler, and improve your Crysis…
Read more AMD's "Suzuka" Opterons Demand Attention
AMD’s Athlon lineup was, at one point in time, their flagship consumer processor, that banner was passed along to the Phenom lineup leaving the poor old Athlon brand to take over the low-end processor branding duties.Of course there’s always…
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…
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…
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