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Thursday, September 21, 2006
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With a retail price of $224 CDN ($203 US, £107GBP), the Intel Pentium M 740 processor is moderately priced but if you're looking to give your laptop an extended life or want to build a silent machine, it's a great option. As we've shown, the Pentium M 740 is no slouch in terms of performance and it's not surprising that Intel choose the Pentium M architecture to extend into the Intel Core 2 Duo desktop line.
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Tuesday, August 29, 2006
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Our performance testing with Intel's new Mobile Core 2 Duo "Merom" processor painted a very strong picture with respect to the new CPU's capabilities, clock-for-clock versus Intel's last generation mobile chip. We saw performance advantages for Merom that scaled from about 15% to as much as almost 50% in certain applications. And all of this was achieved with roughly the same power consumption characteristics as Intel's legacy Yonah mobile dual-core architecture.
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Monday, August 28, 2006
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While the system would benchmark at 45% and 46% overclocks it wasn't Prime 95 or double 32M Super Pi stable, so the highest stable overclock was 44%. Our processor that started out life as a 1.86GHz bottom end Conroe is now a 2.69GHz monster thanks to the huge overclock! This overclock is an 822MHz increase on the overall frequency and overclocks close to 1GHz don't too often!
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With everything running fine with BIOS A00 we went ahead and used the Dell XPS M1710 Special Edition Formula Red gaming notebook for our benchmarking as it is the only notebook we have that features the 512MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX video card inside and we didn't want to be GPU limited during our testing. The other choice we had to go with was the Clevo M570U and while it ran the Core 2 Duo processor T7600 without any issues it only had a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce Go 7900 GTX, so we went with the Dell.
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Monday, August 21, 2006
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One word, awesome. That's the only way I can think to describe this processor to you. The performance that you get with this CPU is astounding, destroying my petty benchmarks. With very little effort I was able to overclock it to far faster speeds than the top of the line Conroe processors, and this only on air! Bottom line is, if you want performance that will knock you sideways and overclocks that will make the tuner in all of us stand up and take notice then this is the CPU for you. If you buy the more budget E6300 or E6400 you will be sacrificing not only clock speed but 2mb of level 2 cache. So if you want a processor that will give you the performance of some of the more expensive chips with just a little tweaking this is the one for you.
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With dual-channel DDR2-800 memory support and the much needed updated south bridge and the P4M890 could have posed a real threat to the P965G chipset. Rather it will now struggle to compete with the old 945G chipset. Furthermore there are few motherboard makers that actually offer VIA based products supporting the new Core 2 Duo processor series. For this reason I was amazed to stumble across the ASUS P5VD2-MX.
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Tuesday, August 15, 2006
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The processors with model-numbers E6300 up-to E6700 make use of a 1066 MHz frontside bus. Both the E6600 and E6700 processors have an amazing 4 MB L2-cache on-board which makes them fly, the lower clocked Core 2 Duo's have 2MB L2 cache on-board. All these Core 2 Duo processors have a low TDP. The Thermal Design Power (TDP) (sometimes called Thermal Design Point) represents the maximum amount of power the thermal solution in a computer system is required to dissipate.
Followed by these five Core 2 Duo processors Intel released the Core 2 Extreme processor which you can find in the stores with model number X6800. This little gem is clocked at 2.93 GHz. This processor also has 4 MB L2-cache yet uses slightly more energy (TDP) at 95 Watt.
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Monday, August 7, 2006
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At less than US$200, the E6300 of course represents Intel's lowest cost Core 2 Duo processor and that's exactly what interests us and many other enthusiasts itching to get their hands on one. Low cost of ownership generally equates to popularity, but that's just part of the reason. Operating at only 1.86GHz and built on the same engineering process and microarchitecture as its other dearer brethrens, a burning question surrounds its overclocking competency and what kind of performance awaits us at its peak. Well, as we found out firsthand, there's tremendous headroom in it and with the right motherboard, you can hit some pretty amazing numbers.
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Sunday, August 6, 2006
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Taking advantage of this new I/O system technology, and advances in DDR SDRAM memory, Intel has brought out a new range of chipsets, the 900 series. All chipsets and motherboards in the 900 series use PCI-Express technology. There are two distinct chipsets so far in this range, the mainstream 915 Express chipset and the performance/enthusiast aimed 925X chipset.I will be taking a look at the very appealing performance Chipset labeled the 925X, or Alderwood. This chipset includes the new PCI-Express technology along with DDR2 memory support, Intel Matrix Raid Storage, and the PCI-Express x16 graphics card interface. There is also support for all the latest Pentium CPU's with the new LGA775 socket.
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Friday, August 4, 2006
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The Core 2 E6400 boasts many of the same key features found in Intel?s more expensive Core 2 Duo CPUs ? in fact it?s built on the same manufacturing line ? only Intel disables half the processor?s cache and it runs at a lower clock speed: 2.13GHz. In comparison, the Core 2 Duo E6700 runs at 2.66GHz, while the Core 2 Extreme X6800 runs at 2.93GHz. With the smaller cache and slower speed the Core 2 Duo E6400 commands a significantly lower price, just $224 compared to the $999 price tag of the Core 2 Extreme X6800 and $530 price of the Duo E6700, making it a tempting alternative to the more expensive Core 2 CPUs. In fact we can?t recall the last time a next-gen CPU launched with such affordable pricing.
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Tuesday, August 1, 2006
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Screams performance. Conserves power. Revolutionizes PCs. With Intel? Core?2 Duo desktop processor, you'll experience revolutionary performance, unbelievable system responsiveness, and energy-efficiency built in ? up to 40% faster and over 40% more energy efficient.?
Discover the world's best processors built for the world's best platforms with Intel Core 2 Duo processors
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Wednesday, April 5, 2006
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Like its predecessor, the Intel Pentium Processor Extreme Edition 965 with Hyper-Threading technology boasts 1066 FSB, 4 MB total L2 cache configured as 2 x 2MB per core, Intel Virtualization Technology, Execute Disable Bit, and Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology. The Extreme Edition platform provides the horsepower and new capabilities that allow PC enthusiasts the flexibility to address the robust content creation and multitasking expectations of the high-end desktop market segment...
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Friday, March 24, 2006
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The 965 comes clocked at 3.73GHz (14.0 x 267MHz) with a 1066MHz front side bus - this is the same core speed as Intel's fastest single core Extreme Edition processor, the Prescott-based chip that came with 2MB of L2 cache. Since there are two separate 'Cedar Mill' cores on the same package in order to create the Presler chip, Intel is able to benefit from fantastic yields as they're able to collect two 65-nanometre Cedar Mill cores from anywhere on the wafer and install them on the same chip package...
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Intel has now hit back with a Pentium Extreme Edition that's clocks in at 3.73GHz, up from the '955's 3.46GHz. Is it enough to dislodge the FX-60's as the fastest x86 CPU around? Read on to find out if the Pentium Extreme Edition 965 processor has what it takes to dislodge the FX-60 as high-end desktop CPU of choice...
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Saturday, February 4, 2006
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With us today, we have the their highest end CPU- the 1066MHZ FSB based Intel Pentium 955 Extreme Edition clocked at 3.46GHz and featuring two cores with 2MB L2 cache for each core- specs that are certainly worthy of the Extreme Edition line-up. Frankly speaking, we were a bit disappointed with Intel's previous EE CPU- the 840EE that was clocked at 3.2GHz but only features 1MB L2 cache per core and ran at 800MHz FSB. The only thing that separated the 840EE from Intel's standard 3.2GHz Dual Core CPU was the inclusion of HyperThreading technology...
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