How To: Get A 4 GHz Dual-Core For $120

November 17th, 2008 No Comments »

Intel’s 45 nm Core 2 serious is known to boast substantial overclocking margins, and the entry-level E7200 with 3 MB L2 cache costs less than $120. We’ll show you how to get close to 4 GHz from this little gem.

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Intel’s Core i7: Blazing Fast, But Crippled O/C

November 3rd, 2008 No Comments »

Core i7–previously referred to as Nehalem–requires new motherboards, coolers and memory. Its performance is compelling and means AMD is falling behind even further, but Intel is putting in some speed bumps that will impact overclocking enthusiasts.

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X38 Comparison Part 1: DDR2 Motherboards

October 31st, 2008 No Comments »

Enhanced features separate Intel’s X38 from its acclaimed P35 Express, but last-minute revisions have delayed final-revision boards for several weeks. Was it worth the wait?

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Intel’s 45 nm Penryn CPU: 4 GHz Air Cooled

October 29th, 2008 No Comments »

Four cores, 45 nm structures and overclocking up to 4 GHz make Intel’s Penryn Core 2 CPUs faster and more efficient. How bad does it look for AMD?

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The Truth About PC Power Consumption

October 19th, 2008 No Comments »

AMD and Intel stress idle and max power use by their processors and platforms. To tell the whole story, we look at how much power typical systems consume over time, under different workloads.

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Parallel Processing, Part 2: RAM and HDD

October 17th, 2008 No Comments »

The second part of this article series deals with the differences between single and dual channel memory, and the performance benefits of using RAID with two or even four hard drives.

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Parallel Processing, Part 1: CPU Cores

October 8th, 2008 No Comments »

Clock speed is only one part of the story. More and more PC components are laid out with multiple units to increase performance via parallelism. In part 1 of this article series, we compare single, dual and quad cores CPUs using identical architectures and clock speeds.

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PC Memory: Just the Facts

October 3rd, 2008 No Comments »

We are preparing to do a series of articles called “The Best Memory for the Money.” Today, we detail the technical criteria used to determine the best memory available each month.

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Security Update for QuickTime 7.2 for Windows

October 3rd, 2008 No Comments »

About Security Update or QuickTime 7.2 for Windows
This update is recommended for all users and improves the security of QuickTime 7.2.

For detailed information on this update, please visit this website: http://www.info.apple.com/kbnum/n61798

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What if Your CPU Cooler Fails?

September 27th, 2008 No Comments »

We removed CPU coolers from running systems in 2001 and traced performance reduction due to overheating in 2004, but what do the latest AMD and Intel processors do if their fans fail? We had to find out.

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