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Tuesday, June 26, 2007
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If anything though performance is a given with the E6750 and the biggest thing to discuss here is the price. Based on the fact that the Core 2 Duo E6850 is rumoured to cost as little as $266 in 1000 unit quantities, the Core 2 Duo E6750 is going to be even cheaper than that. Currently, the Core 2 Duo E6700 is $316, so the upcoming price cuts could see some very healthy cost cuts from the consumer?s perspective.
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Monday, June 25, 2007
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When Bearlake launched last month, it opened the doors for native 1333FSB processor support. That's where the refreshed Conroe line-up comes into play. In our performance preview of the E6750, we will show you what to expect when its released later this summer.
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We received from Intel a Core 2 Duo E6750 engineering sample, which is basically a Core 2 Duo E6700 with a 1,333 MHz FSB instead of 1,066 MHz. It will be launched later this summer together with several other Core 2 Duo models with the new 1,333 MHz FSB, and from the naming used on E6750 we can assume that Intel will use the number '50' on their model numbers to indicate the new external clock rate. Since we also had available a Core 2 Duo E6700 and a Core 2 Extreme QX6700 in our lab, we could make a terrific comparison between these three CPUs - as all three run internally at 2.66 GHz - to answer two basic questions: By how much the new 1,333 MHz FSB will improve PC performance? What is better, a quad-core CPU with 1,066 MHz FSB or a dual-core CPU with 1,333 MHz FSB? Read on.
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Tuesday, June 19, 2007
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If you thought overclocking the daylights of the Core 2 Duo E6300 processor was easy, just wait till you laid hands on the E6420 processor. It may not set new clock speed records, but it's incredibly easy to tap on to its hidden potential and it may even cost less in total system cost!
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Friday, June 15, 2007
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So what are these new Pentium dual-core processors? Well, in essence they are stripped down Conroe processors featuring a tiny 1MB L2 cache with an 800MHz FSB. There are two versions currently available, the Pentium E2140 and the E2160. Clocked at 1.8GHz the E2160 matches the E4300 in terms of clock speed while featuring half as much L2 cache. The E2140 on the other hand is now the slowest desktop "Core 2" processor, clocked at just 1.6GHz. With both CPUs priced below the $100 mark ($84 and $99, respectively), this should make for an interesting race against its more expensive siblings.
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Monday, May 21, 2007
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The Intel P35 chipset may be an evolution but there's very little going for it if this first look at the basic performance Asus's P5K Deluxe is anything to go by. A P35 board will provide more chipset straps for overclocking as well as support for future processors and a couple of extra goodies, but investing in a P965 should give you very similar performance and certainly won't short change you.
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Thursday, May 10, 2007
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The curtain has been drawn back on Santa Rosa, Intel's fourth generation Centrino mobile platform. Between its new 800MHz FSB, notebook overclocking technologies, HD acceleration, HDMI support and even more power savings, you'll find out all you need to know about Santa Rosa right here. Plus we even have early benchmark numbers and tests.
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Monday, April 30, 2007
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We've been meaning to deliver benchmarks from the Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 for some time now, but with the new site, the upcoming Solaris hardware support, quad/octal core benchmarking, and the variety of different articles we have been working on, things have been quite hectic around here. However, with Fedora 7 Test 4 now being available, we have finally published our Core 2 Duo E6400 Linux results.
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Wednesday, April 18, 2007
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The performance numbers on the Intel Wolfdale and Yorkfield processors look great, but as always remember these numbers are done on a production motherboard with slight voltage modifications and on software applications that Intel picked out. The performance difference between Yorkfield and Kentsfield seems to be roughly 5-10% clock for clock, which is a nice performance increase...
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Tuesday, April 10, 2007
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Intel slips in some more quad-core love earlier than expected. The 2.93GHz-clocked QX6800 romps through our benchmarks. See just how fast it is in this HEXUS.review.
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Thursday, March 22, 2007
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Today, we have a selection of coolers from Asus, Noctua, ThermalFly and Zalman on test. Each of these coolers makes use of heatpipe technology to some extent and whatever your needs are, there should be something here that might be right up your street in this selection.
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
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All things considered equalled, enthusiasts like you are no doubt most attracted to the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 because it offers the best mix of cache size and clock speed. The dual-core processor runs on a 1066 MHz FSB, comes clocked at 2.4 GHz and most importantly has a massive 4MB of L2 cache! The E6600 processor is built on Intel's 65 nanometer manufacturing process and comes in the Socket 775 form factor. The chip contains technologies like SSE3, Virtualization Technology (VT) and Enhanced Intel Speed Step Technology (EIST) which we'll discuss in detail later in the review.
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
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The overall performance, overclocking capabilities, price and BIOS options on Intel's D975XBX2 are nothing special, but it's still a decent board in the grand scale of things. Under stress, stability is just not as good as other boards, despite the engineering prowess behind it and this being Intel's flagship performance desktop motherboard. We've seen boards that cost less run through our torture test for at least 24 hours straight without issue (and well beyond that in some cases, too). To only manage 10 hours is a bit of a problem. Thus there is really very little that this motherboard offers the consumer over what else is available on the market for either performance desktop or entry level workstation. In many cases, competing boards offer more stability, more unique features, or simply cost much less.
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Thursday, February 1, 2007
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2007 is the year where technologies like DX10 and quad-core processors proliferate the market as software like Microsoft Vista and next generation games/applications take center stage. Setting the pace of the CPU industry right from the start of the year is Intel and its new Core 2 Quad Q6600 which we test run in this review.
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Because the Core 2 Duo E6300 is such tremendous value for money, I find it hard to quantify the Core 2 Duo E4300 at the moment. In isolation, it's a little overpriced for my liking, but then it's worth remembering that most people don't just buy a CPU on its own. Although the E4300 probably won't reach the high speeds we've seen achieved using an E6300, it can achieve its maximum overclock with much cheaper components. There's no need for a motherboard capable of front side bus speeds in excess of 400MHz and there's no need for anything more than DDR2-667 memory if you run the memory in sync with the front side bus using a 1:1 divider. Right now, I don?t believe that the Core 2 Duo E4300 is as good a buy as it could be. When the price drops to around £80 in the second quarter of this year, I suspect that it will be a damn sight more attractive than it is now - the price is just too close to the Core 2 Duo E6300 for my liking. Unless you're looking to overclock on a very tight budget, the E6300 is a better buy.
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