CPUs
Further to our last piece which we detailed Intel's issue to motherboard vendors to follow with stock power settings for Intel's 14th and 13th Gen Core series processors, Intel has now issued a follow-up statement to this. Over the last week or so, motherboard vendors quickly released firmware updates with a new profile called 'Intel Baseline', which motherboard vendors assumed would address the instability issues. As it turns out, Intel doesn't seem to accept this as technically, these Intel Baseline profiles are not to be confused with Intel's default specifications. This means that Intel's Baseline profiles seemingly give the impression that they are operating at default settings, hence the terminology 'baseline' used, but this still opens motherboard vendors to use their interpretations of MCE...
AMD Names Athlon's Successor: Phenom
With the utmost caution, AMD slowly unveils its processor plans. It all starts with a name.
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/14/2007AMD - The Road Ahead
AMD has decided to be even more forthcoming with details on their current and future plans. What's in store, and can they continue to compete with Intel?
55 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 5/11/2007Intel Penryn Performance Preview: The Fastest gets Faster
In its recent tradition, Intel gave us an indication of Penryn performance well before its official ship date. Get a preview of what the first 45nm Intel CPUs...
66 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/18/2007Intel Developer Forum - Beijing 2007: Penryn and Intel's High End GPU
The first day of IDF Beijing has begun and Intel gave away some more information on Penryn, as well as its first real ATI/NVIDIA competitor.
13 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/16/2007Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6800: The Fastest Desktop CPU, now with more cores
Intel gave its quad-core Kentsfield a speed bump, meanwhile AMD went through a significant set of price cuts. The landscape has indeed changed.
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/9/2007Intel: More Details on Penryn and Nehalem
Today we met with Intel and were given some additional juicy details of what is in store for CPUs due for release during the next year. Think QX6700...
14 by Johan De Gelas on 3/28/2007EVGA 680i LT SLI: NVIDIA's 680i Cost Reduced
We provide our first impressions of NVIDIA's 680i LT SLI chipset using EVGA's board and wonder if cost reductions are always beneficial.
16 by Gary Key on 3/28/2007Intel G965: microATX Performance Update
We perform a quick performance comparison of an Intel G965 mATX platform and similar Intel P965 platform.
8 by Gary Key on 3/16/2007AMD 690G: Performance Review
We compare AMD's new 690G chipset against NVIDIA's GeForce 6150 and Intel's G965 chipsets with some surprising results.
70 by Gary Key on 3/6/2007Barcelona Architecture: AMD on the Counterattack
After a tremendously successful K8 architecture, AMD lost the performance crown when Intel released Core 2. Details on the upcoming Barcelona architecture are here, but will it be enough...
83 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 3/1/2007AMD 690G: Technology Overview
We provide our first impressions of AMD's new integrated graphics chipset before we roll out our performance review.
14 by Derek Wilson and Gary Key on 2/28/2007AMD Athlon 64 X2 6000+: Competing with Aggressive Pricing
AMD has lowered its CPU pricing considerably as of late, but is it enough to make up for a 3-year old architecture? Find out as we perform our...
34 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/20/2007The Era of Tera: Intel Reveals more about 80-core CPU
Last year Intel talked about an 80-core Teraflop CPU, today we get many more details on its architecture and its role in the future of many-core CPUs.
25 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 2/11/2007Intel Demonstrates new 45nm Transistors and Conroe's Successor
What's better than a Conroe? That would be a Penryn. Learn about the transistors that make Penryn so special.
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/27/2007Intel Core 2 Duo E4300: Affordable and Highly Overclockable
Every generation a ridiculously overclockable bargain chip is born, and the Core 2 Duo E4300 is just that chip.
68 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 1/10/2007AMD's 65nm Preview Part 2 - The Plot Thickens (Updated with Information from AMD)
We take a closer look at AMD's first 65nm parts, uncovering the roots of its lower performance and poor overclocking. Now updated with an official response from AMD.
52 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/21/2006AMD's 65nm Brisbane Core Previewed: The most energy efficient AMD CPU to date
Intel has had two major advantages over AMD as of late: 65nm and a newer architecture. Today we take a look at AMD's first 65nm offering and see...
63 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 12/14/2006AMD's Quad FX: Technically Quad Core
It's four cores spread out across two processors in a $370 motherboard drawing close to 500W of power. How does it stack up to Kentsfield? We'll find...
88 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/30/2006NVIDIA 680i: The Best Core 2 Chipset?
NVIDIA's answer to the shortcomings of 590 on the Intel platform is the 680i. Is the new NVIDIA chipset all we hoped for?
60 by Gary Key & Wesley Fink on 11/8/2006Intel's Core 2 Extreme QX6700: The Multi-core Era Begins
Today Intel officially launches its first quad core desktop processor: the Core 2 Extreme QX6700. Find out what four cores means for performance, efficiency and the future of...
59 by Anand Lal Shimpi on 11/2/2006