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Thursday, September 6, 2007
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To boil it down, this processor will blow you mind if you ever personally witness it ripping through data and information like an F5 tornado through a Oklahoma trailer park. It is equally as awe-inspiring and you might just lose your house paying for it.
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Tuesday, September 4, 2007
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The people that will be taking advantage of this new processor will be the new system builders trying to get their best bang for the buck at the moment. Seeing this processor can be purchased for under US$200, it is a lot cheaper than the US$320 E6700 it is replacing. In my opinion, Intel is inviting people to take advantage of this processor by cutting the price so drastically that the price difference could allow you to buy the different motherboard to take advantage of it.
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Monday, September 3, 2007
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Well, for years after that I was a true diehard AMD fan. That is, until the tides recently turned and the tsunami of C2D arrived on the shores. Recently, Intel has been dominating the processor scene with its new line of Core 2 Duo's. Well, once again Intel has stepped up to the plate by literally stepping up the FSB from 1066 to 1333. This new line of CPU's have a model of Exx50 which represents the 1333FSB. This bump on the CPU will now match the Front Side Bus of some newer motherboards. The new processor under the microscope is the new Intel Core 2 Duo E6850, which is 3.0GHz, has 4mb of cache, and is using the 1333MHz system bus. With all these numbers floating around in my head, I just can't wait to test the processor.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2007
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The coolest thing about the new 1333MHz Intel Core 2 Duo processors like the E6750 is its overclocking capability! The previous Core 2 Duo CPU generation could reach 3.4-3.6 GHz without much difficulty, but the new 'G0' stepping can do even better. The Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 PCSTATS tested was able to hit a spectacular 3.8 GHz while the stock Intel heatsink. We've already read reports online of other benchmarkers who have achieved close to 4 GHz on air cooling!
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Friday, August 17, 2007
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One of the most popular CPUs on the market right now is the Q6600, thanks to the fact that it offers four cores at 2.4GHz. But what about the Xeon's? Their prices are also more affordable now, with their X3210 2.13GHz retailing for $260. Read on as we pit this Quad-Core against the rest of our fleet.
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Thursday, August 16, 2007
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The Core 2 Duo processors have been tried, tested and pushed through the roof countless times here in www.hardwarezone.com , but what about the humble entry-level models? We tried overclocking the Pentium Dual-Core E2160 and the outcome is nothing short of amazing!
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Monday, August 13, 2007
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Now that P35 has been given the all clear and is designed to run with the new 1333MHz FSB CPUs, P35 based boards are hitting the shelves. Today we have five on offer, each from a different company. The purpose is of course to see what is on offer, what is worth your money and who has the best features. Gigabyte, ASUS, ABIT, Foxconn and ECS put their mid-range boards on the chopping block for us, so let?s get stuck into this.
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Friday, August 10, 2007
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Last year Intel gave us the Core 2 Duo, a competitively priced CPU with very acceptable prices for the low and mid-range. This year Intel introduced newer models from low to high end, we take a look at the new low priced E2160 model which has less L2 cache but higher multiplier and compare it with the low end part from last year, the E6300.
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Tuesday, August 7, 2007
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In the last couple of weeks, we were able to present you a few high-quality motherboards with an integrated graphics. All of them were based on AMD's controller logic, i.e. AMD 690G chipset, which proved to be a top-of-the-notch solution as far as multimedia is concerned. Now it's time to see how good is Intel's G33 chipset when it comes to multimedia and everyday use.
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Friday, July 27, 2007
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AMD and Intel recently introduced three new low cost processors. Intel decided to resurrect its Pentium brand for use on two new low-cost parts; the Intel Pentium E2140 and Pentium 2160. AMD, on the other hand, released a new Athlon part, the Athlon X2 BE-2350. Although these processors are positioned at somewhat different segments of the market, we believe it is still appropriate for these two processors to be compared against each other because they have a lot in common.
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Wednesday, July 25, 2007
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The Core 2 Extreme QX6850 is the first processor to bear the power efficient G0 stepping and coupled with four processing cores running at the new top speed of 3GHz on a 1333MHz front side bus, find out if this new US$999 processor makes the mark.
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The new Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6850 processor we are testing today is the first Core 2 product to hit the magical 3.0GHz marker, and it is doing it not with two but rather four cores (dual 4MB L2 cache). Also new for the Core microarchitecture is a bumped up front side bus which has been taken to 333MHz QDR (Quad Data Rate - 1333MHz), whereas previous Core 2 processors all used a 1066MHz FSB.
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Today, Intel is launching a revised range of mid-market-to-high-end Core 2 processors, still 65nm but with a faster front-side bus. Are they fast enough to get CPU lovers everywhere reaching for their credit cards? And how do they stack in terms of value after AMD's latest round of price-cuts? We look at the QX6850 and E6750 to find out.
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Intel today is announcing their 1333FSB Core 2 line-up, which consists of three dual-cores, including the E6750 we previewed a few weeks ago, and also the 3.0GHz quad-core that we are testing out today. Read on as we explore all of what Intel's latest flagship processor has to offer.
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We received from Intel a Core 2 Extreme QX6850 engineering sample, which is now the most high-end desktop CPU available on the market today, featuring four cores, running at 3 GHz internally and 1,333 MHz externally - a new clock rate that will be officially introduced tomorrow morning. Since our engineering sample had its clock multiplier unlocked, we were able to increase its clock multiplier from 9x to 10x, simulating a future quad-core CPU running at 3.33 GHz - a "Core 2 Extreme QX 6950". We compared this new CPU to several other CPUs from Intel, check it out.
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