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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Overclocking: Dual- vs. Quad-Core CPUs

November 8th, 2008 No Comments »

When overclocking, are there significant advantages to using quad-core instead of dual-core CPUs? We do extensive testing using Intel’s E6750 and Q6600 processors.

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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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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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Intel Core i7 (Nehalem): Architecture By AMD?

October 14th, 2008 No Comments »

Intel’s new Core i7 processors represent a major evolution of the Core 2-series, though a lot of the additions look like they come from AMD’s playbook. Is there any truth here or are we the only ones thinking it?

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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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Updated CPU Charts 2008: AMD Versus Intel

October 1st, 2008 No Comments »

The processor is the heart of your PC, and our updated charts for Q3 2008 show 54 of them competing in terms of performance. Using our updated suite of benchmarks, compare your favorite AMD and Intel CPUs after reading this introduction.

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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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Intel X38 Chipset: A Porsche with the Handbrake On

September 26th, 2008 No Comments »

Intel successfully introduced the P35 chipset not long ago. Now it is touting the newly released X38 chipset as the high end leader of the Series 3 chipset family. But is X38 a significant step up from P35?

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$89 Pentium Dual Core that Runs at 3.2 GHz

September 12th, 2008 No Comments »

Want plenty of power for very little money? Here’s a CPU with an overclocking margin of 80% that can beat a Core 2 Duo E6750 for a fraction of its cost!

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