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Intel Core i7 870/Core i5 750/P55 Express chipset ReviewIntel Core i7 870/Core i5 750/P55 Express chipset Review

Author: Elric Phares Date: 09-07-2009 Category: Hardware

Intel has a whole family of products with this launch with new processors, new motherboards to support the processors and a new Platform Controller Hub that changes their entire cost equation. If you want a CPU that offers decent ...

Intel Core i7 975 CPU Review Intel Core i7 975 CPU Review

Author: Elric Phares Date: 08-18-2009 Category: Hardware

This CPU is the fastest available processor for the gaming enthusiast on the market with 8 logical cores running at 3.33GHz....

AMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU ReviewAMD Phenom II X4 955 CPU Review

Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 07-08-2009 Category: Hardware

The AMD platform has long been known for its backwards compatible platforms with AM2+ CPUs able t work with the AM2 motherboards with a BIOS upgrade, and now the AM3 CPUs able to use the same AM2+ motherboards with DDR2 memory mea...

AMD Phenom II X3 710 ReviewAMD Phenom II X3 710 Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-07-2009 Category: Hardware

The AMD Phenom II X3 710 is an interesting beast of a CPU. It is the second fastest triple core CPU that AMD has to offer, but the fact is you can spend a little more money on the Phenom II 720 which is $20 more expensive giving y...

AMD Phenom II X4 940 ReviewAMD Phenom II X4 940 Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-27-2009 Category: Hardware

The reality of the economic downturn has affected every facet of our lives including the computer industry. While Intel continues to price their CPUs in the $999 price range with little change but a higher clock speed and higher s...

AMD Spider Platform 9950 Black CPU ReviewAMD Spider Platform 9950 Black CPU Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 08-26-2008 Category: Hardware

For a retail price of $230, the 9950 is an interesting choice from AMD. This has driven the price of the 9850 Black Edition down to the $200 level in 1000 unit quantities. The 9950 performs higher than the 9850 across the board as...

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 ReviewIntel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 06-26-2008 Category: Hardware

The Personal Computer has been kicking it for many years now, with the first IBM PC launched in 1981 with a 4.77MHz CPU and 64KB of RAM. That was almost 27 years ago, a long time in computer history. One of the problems with the ...

AMD Phenom X3 8750 CPU ReviewAMD Phenom X3 8750 CPU Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 04-22-2008 Category: Hardware

A Phenom 8750 with a 780G motherboard would cost around $290 today. This will give you excellent integrated graphics with full compatibility across DirectX 10 titles, with nearly the performance of the HD3400 series discrete graph...

AMD Phenom 9850 X4 Black Edition CPU ReviewAMD Phenom 9850 X4 Black Edition CPU Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-30-2008 Category: Hardware

. The fact that the QX9770 has 12MB of L2 Cache, and the clock speed difference makes it a losing battle. The thing with the CPU market is the Phenom 9850 is designed for the $266 market, not the $1450 market that the Intel QX977...

Intel E8500 Core2 Duo ReviewIntel E8500 Core2 Duo Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-21-2008 Category: Hardware

The E8500 is the fastest Core 2 Duo solution on the market with the clock speed set at 3.16GHz, fully 266MHz higher than the next fastest E series CPU. For a MSRP on the Intel CPU price list of $266 this makes an affordable soluti...

AMD 780G Chipset / AMD Athlon X2 4850e Platform ReviewAMD 780G Chipset / AMD Athlon X2 4850e Platform Review

Author: Ben Sun Date: 03-05-2008 Category: Hardware

The 4850e X2 CPU does what it is designed to do, namely bring the performance and features of the 4800 X2 into the 45W maximum power draw domain. From a performance point of view this new CPU is in line with the 4800+ X2 with simi...

Intel Core2 Extreme QX6850 CPU PreviewIntel Core2 Extreme QX6850 CPU Preview

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-16-2007 Category: Hardware

Intel has dominated the playing field of CPU technology for the last two decades, and even though rival company AMD for awhile stole some of their fire with their FX series CPUs, Intel is once again leading the pack, and without c...

AMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 Energy Efficient ReviewAMD Athlon 64 4800+ X2 Energy Efficient Review

Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 03-29-2007 Category: Hardware

The 4800+ is an interesting CPU. Energy efficiency is more and more important as the Green initiative makes computer manufacturers work on lowering power requirements and the 4800+ does this as advertised. The 4800+ consumes 30W l...

Intel QX6700 Extreme Quad Core CPU ReviewIntel QX6700 Extreme Quad Core CPU Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 11-01-2006 Category: Hardware

Anyone who runs applications like Photoshop for Photo editing or Maya 3D and CAD for modeling will see huge benefits from the QX6700 Extreme as its multithreading abilities will be taken advantage of. In another instance if you ar...

AMD's Energy Efficient Processors: 4600+ and 3800+AMD's Energy Efficient Processors: 4600+ and 3800+

Author: Benjamin Sun Date: 09-12-2006 Category: Hardware

Intel and AMD are moving towards more efficiency in their CPUs and that's a good thing. The "Green" initiative is about conserving energy and saving our environment. With power requirements on every facet of the computer going up ...

Intel Core 2 Extreme / Core Duo Processor ReviewIntel Core 2 Extreme / Core Duo Processor Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 07-18-2006 Category: Hardware

Wow, not only did Intel make a comeback they have done it in a much cooler fashion, as the new X6800 and E6700 CPUs are not only fast and furious, they run at a much lower temperature threshold than the previous generation Pressle...

AMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ / FX62 CPU ReviewAMD Athlon64 X2 5000+ / FX62 CPU Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-23-2006 Category: Hardware

This round shows the gap between Intel and AMD taking a wider gap in favor of AMD for the first time; to be candid the FX62 was a smoking gun as an out of box product. AMD has really made advancements the past year with new faster...

AMD FX57 Versus Intel 670 CPU ReviewAMD FX57 Versus Intel 670 CPU Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 06-30-2005 Category: Hardware

In what is perhaps one of the last releases of single-core CPUs, both AMD and Intel have a high-end solution that offers better performance than any CPU previously released. The AMD FX-57 and the Intel 670 go head to head in a bat...

AMD Vesus Intel Battle of the Dual-Core CPUsAMD Vesus Intel Battle of the Dual-Core CPUs

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 05-09-2005 Category: Hardware

Although both Intel and AMD have entered the Dual-Core CPU arena, it was the AMD 4800+ CPU, which showed the best results here in the lab. We tested these CPUs against each other using the best and most performance savvy parts we ...

AMD Sempron Versus Intel Celeron CPU ReviewAMD Sempron Versus Intel Celeron CPU Review

Author: Doc Overclock Date: 04-29-2005 Category: Hardware

AMD released their first Socket 754 Sempron early last year in the form of the 3100+ and their follow up chip the 3300+ continues their budget CPU line. Faster than the higher clocked Celeron, the Sempron offers solid performance ...

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