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  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-57

    27 June 2005, 00:00

    Put simply: if you want the fastest x86 processor on the planet, measured using games and single-threaded benchmarks, the FX-57 should be the only thing on your shopping list.

  • Intel Pentium 4 670 and Pentium D 820

    26 May 2005, 00:00

    To state the obvious, where the Pentium D 820 thrives in is in multi-threaded applications that take full advantage of both its cores concurrently. When that happens, its performance beats ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+

    9 May 2005, 00:00

    The key things to take from today's look at the 4800+ is that it's generally no slower, but generally no faster either, than an FX-53 in single-threaded tests, yet it'll ...

  • Intel's Pentium Extreme Edition 840 and 955X Express chipset

    4 April 2005, 00:00

    Whether or not it\'s worth ditching your present system for the obvious benefits of dual-core computing is entirely dependant on your application usage. The Pentium XE 840, whilst hugely impressive ...

  • Intel's Pentium-M 735 Processor and DFI 855GME Motherboard

    31 March 2005, 00:00

    Performance wise, there\'s one thing that stands out from the analysis and observation of P-M\'s scaling with nothing more than its base frequency: it\'s crying out for core logic to ...

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  • Intel's Prescott-2M: Pentium 4 660 and Pentium 4 Extreme Edition 3.73GHz

    21 February 2005, 00:00

    And it\'s that 64-bit ability of Prescott-2M that\'s its main selling point, rather than any performance to be gained by the double-sized L2 cache, compared to Prescott-1M. I missed out ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 3000+ (Winchester)

    6 December 2004, 00:00

    A 600MHz overclock is typical of current Athlon 64 Winchester 3000+s, and I see very little reason why you can't at least replicate what's been achieved in this review. Remember, ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 570J

    15 November 2004, 00:00

    In summary, it\'s very hard to recommend the Pentium 4 570J when the competition, AMD, is currently doing so well. I\'d either opt for a cheaper 5xx model and overclock ...

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  • Intel 2004 Roadmap Updates

    9 November 2004, 00:00

    With 2004 drawing to a close, a lot of Intel\'s platform plans, for everything from mobile to Itanium, have a 2005 focus. That includes the launch of the 6-series Pentium ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs

    19 October 2004, 00:00

    Bottom line is that AMD has raised the performance bar yet again with its new FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs. It's now up to Intel to respond with its next ...

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  • AMD Sempron 2800+ , Sempron 3100+ and Intel Celeron D 335

    17 October 2004, 00:00

    Which value processor should you choose?. If your budget resembles a shoestring then a bottom-end Sempron (Socket A, obviously) or Celeron D 320 are the natural choices. Both CPUs have ...

  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 and Model 3800+ socket-939 CPUs

    1 June 2004, 00:00

    The bottom line is very simple. AMD\'s delivered performance in spades with its new Socket-939 processors; performance that makes Intel\'s Pentium 4s look impotent in comparison. We await Intel\'s response ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz Prescott

    9 May 2004, 00:00

    Indifferent performance, heat problems, lack of S478 upgrade potential, and strained availability, at the end, all count against a recommendation for the Pentium 4 3.4GHz Prescott processor. Looking at the ...

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  • Intel Celeron 2.8GHz

    29 March 2004, 00:00

    The Celeron is positioned such that it will fit into a huge number of boards - literally every S478 going. It's cheap by Intel standards but, and here's the big ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 FX-53 CPU

    18 March 2004, 00:00

    Intel's Pentium 4 3.4GHz Extreme Edition put the onus back on to AMD's shoulders. We'd call the heavyweight fight pretty even now, although the balance may swing entirely in AMD's ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 Model 3000+

    5 March 2004, 00:00

    The Athlon 64 Model 3000+ was a much-needed CPU in AMD's performance lineup. All we now ask for is a 1.8GHz 512kb L2 cache version priced at around £140. That ...

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  • AMD Athlon XP-M Barton 2500 Evaluation

    3 March 2004, 00:00

    The results speak for themselves. High performance doesn't necessarily have to be limited to the Athlon 64 or top-end Pentium 4 CPUs. What's more, it can be achieved with a ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Prescott, 3.4GHz Northwood and 3.4GHz Northwood Extreme Edition

    1 February 2004, 00:00

    The enthusiast may be under the false impression that Intel really, really cares about having the fastest consumer-level CPUs. Intel's near-$30-billion turnover in 2003 dwarfs its arch-rival's, AMD's, by a ...

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  • AMD Athlon 64 3400+

    6 January 2004, 00:00

    Like any company, a CPU's fundamentals need to be sound... which is fortunately the case with the AMD Athlon 3400. Performance in spades, at least two chipsets with solid, stable ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz Extreme Edition

    3 October 2003, 00:00

    The enthusiast with ultra-deep pockets will have a choice between two monster CPUs that go about their respective work in differing ways but tend to achieve similar results. The 3.2GHz ...

  • AMD Athlon64 FX-51

    23 September 2003, 00:00

    It's difficult to ascertain the 64-bit qualities of the FX-51 right now. Limited OS support and limited driver support make any tentative benchmarking perilous. I'll leave that up to Mr. ...

  • AMD Athlon XP 1800

    10 July 2003, 00:00

    The movements in the CPU front over the past few years have been very substantial. AMD have switched from being behind Intel in core development and speed to overtaking them. ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 3.2GHz

    23 June 2003, 00:00

    This CPU feels like a stopgap to the inevitable Prescott core. There\'s little denying that it is the fastest x86 processor around. Whether you\'re willing to stump up the cash ...

  • AMD Athlon XP 3200+

    13 May 2003, 00:00

    As a platform, we're pretty impressed. 200MHz front side bus can't hurt and the DDR memory infrastructure has long been in place to support the move. NVIDIA nForce2 Ultra 400 ...

  • AMD Barton XP3000+

    10 February 2003, 00:00

    The biggest challenge faced by the Barton is its performance against arched rivals Intel and their flagship the P4 3.06. Intel have added ‘Hyper-Threading’ to further enhance performance in the ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 3.06GHz

    12 November 2002, 00:00

    The overclocking performance and CPU scaling at 3GHz are what impress me most with this new processor. You don't have to run with HyperThreading enabled (and of course you may ...

  • Intel Celeron 2GHz CPU

    28 October 2002, 00:00

    At least Intel have modernised the Celeron processor to some degree. The fact that it overclocks so easily bodes well for increasing the basic clock speeds to the 3GHz level, ...

  • AMD XP2700

    26 October 2002, 00:00

    The bus clock increase and the new speed from nForce2 are really something to be proud of. The Asus board is a delight and it only needs voltage adjustment to ...

  • Intel Pentium 4 2.8GHz

    26 August 2002, 00:00

    Intel, on the other hand, currently face no real headroom dilemma with their Northwood processor. Things have been going so well on the P4 front that clock speeds have been ...

  • AMD Athlon XP2600

    21 August 2002, 00:00

    Without sounding like an AMD advert, this CPU is pretty special. The changes made to the core have made all the difference and the CPU now scales well at 0.13u.

  • AMD Athlon XP2200+ (.13 Micron)

    10 June 2002, 00:00

    Underneath the name it's quite a different beast from XP2100+ and represents a big change for AMD, namely their success in bringing a 0.13u process desktop processor to market. It's ...

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  • VIA C3 Gold CPU - 1GHz

    3 June 2002, 00:00

    On first impressions the new layout of the C3 1GHz is not dissimilar to an AMD Athlon or Duron processor in appearance of cache chips now being on top of ...

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  • Intel Pentium 4 Northwood 2.4B

    6 May 2002, 00:00

    Over the past few months we have seen Intel becoming more and more competitive in the desktop CPU market. Currently they have the stronghold over AMD with the Pentium 4. ...

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