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by Rafael Hernandez on November 13, 2008 · 0 comments

Nothing spells excitement like a server processor refresh. AMD’s quad core Opterons have been the darling of the virtualization community, holding sizable performance leads over the competition in that category but not much else. In comes their 45nm die shrink…

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 15, 2007 · 0 comments

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….

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by Rafael Hernandez on October 8, 2007 · 0 comments

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…

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