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  • Review: 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 and Apple - Jon Peddie has his say

    6 June 2005, 00:00

    Everyone has heard the news by now that Apple will move to an x86-based platform next year. The news reverberates in many places. Although Apple’s defection exposes weakness in IBM’s ...

  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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 ...

  • Review: 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 ...

  • Review: 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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  • CEBIT 2005: AMD CeBIT 2005 Treasure Hunt

    12 March 2005, 00:00

    This year AMD have organized a treasure hunt around the entire of the CeBIT site. Now before you go of thinking what all the fuss is about, you need to ...

  • IDF Spring 2005: Day 1 Keynote : Pat Gelsinger

    2 March 2005, 00:00

    In his keynote speech at IDF, Gelsinger, the man who is no longer CTO is now heading up Intel’s Digital Enterprise division, announced that data now compiles to their Moores ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Day 1 Keynote : Craig Barrett

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    Spring IDF 2005 will be the last keynote with Craig as CEO of the company, he’s now taking a position on the board, and is to focus on Intel’s strategy ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Manufacturing Enhancements to CMOS Technology

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    Another Spring, another IDF, without doubt at this IDF we will be bashed about with Dual Core and Vanderpool technology, as well as Intel screaming at us about how well ...

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  • IDF Spring 2005: Intel Multi-Core strategy

    1 March 2005, 00:00

    It does not take a genius to predict that Intel would be going Dual Core mad at this IDF, and sure enough, the second session of the first day was ...

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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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, ...

  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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 ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: AMD hijacks the journos

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    Every year at IDF, you can be assured that a number of companies will take advantage of the entire world’s journalists being in the same place at the same time. ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: Intel's Day 2 Keynote

    9 September 2004, 00:00

    Two years ago Intel shared a vision with us for the digital home - the convergence of computer based silicon and the software needed to control it, put in to ...

  • IDF Fall 2004: Multi-Core for more, more, more

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Another major point in Paul Otellini's opening keynote address at IDF was Intel's multi-core CPU strategy. Openly demonstrating the 1.7 billion transistor Montecito Itanium processor, a chip that's dual-core with ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Paul Otellini's Opening Day Keynote

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Intel's Paul Otellini just delivered his IDF keynote to mark the opening of the event. Covering what he calls the three spokes of IDF, Technologies, Together (networking with people) and ...

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  • IDF Fall 2004: Intro

    7 September 2004, 00:00

    Intel Developer Forum is one of those events that something exciting always happens at. Someone usually announces something new and exciting and more often than not it's Intel themselves, keen ...

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  • Review: 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 Desktop Processor Roadmap Update

    11 May 2004, 00:00

    If you weren't aware of 1066MHz processors being launched by Intel this year, both Gallatin-2M and 2nd generation Prescott based, along with the supporting chipset, you certainly will be now. ...

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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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 ...

  • Review: 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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  • Review: 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 ...

  • Review: 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 ...

  • Review: 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. ...