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Intel Introduces a Few New CPUs, Cuts Prices on Others

Chris Moody — Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:31:08 -0500

Intel adds a few processors and drops a few prices this month in it’s CPU line up. There doesn’t appear to be any shakeups from Intel’s expected plans.

Intel's Core 2 Extreme Quad Core line remains unchanged, but in the standard line, the Q9650 joins the line up at the top, while the Q9550 drops 40% from $530 to the Q9450 previous level of $316. The Q9400 is also new, and enters at the same price as the Q9300 and Q6700 (a 65nm process CPU) at $266.

The only other prices changes were in the Xeon line, with the new X3370 coming out and the X3360 dropping 40% to $316.

All prices are in 1000 tray units.

We will certainly see more changes when Intel ships Bloomfield sometime in Q4.

CyberPower Gamer Ultimate SLI Quad

Gordon Mah Ung — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 17:39:51 -0500

For all those readers who have added up the price of the parts in an OEM box and screamed into the night air: “Hell, I can build it cheaper than that!” CyberPower has a retort: Beat this one, sucker! While you might think you’re up to the challenge, we suspect the price-to-performance ratio of the CyberPower Gamer Ultimate SLI Quad is impossible to match—unless you’re using boosted parts. In fact, we’re not sure how CyberPower is making a profit off this stacked and packed rig.

AMD’s new X4 quad core

Gordon Mah Ung — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 23:02:28 -0500

Does the $235 "fixed" B3 Phenom have enough horsepower to beat Intel's Core 2 Quad Q9300?

Intel’s details Nehalem, Larrabee and hexa-core CPU plans

Gordon Mah Ung — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:57:53 -0500

Don't call it the return of the i740, Intel says new GPU will sport multiple cores and will put the hurt on its competitors

XFX nForce 780i SLI

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:35:25 -0600

We knew something was up when Nvidia officials were light on details concerning its 780i chipset during a recent press briefing. Normally quite happy to toot its hardware horn, Nvidia practically skipped the PowerPoint slide on the chipset.
Why? Like Intel’s x48, the 780i isn’t really that new. In fact, those familiar with the 680i are well acquainted with the 780i, which is pretty much a 680i with an extra chip (interestingly named the Nforce 200) thrown in to add PCI-E 2.0 support and a full x16 tri-SLI mode.

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Asus P5E3 Premium

Gordon Mah Ung — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 14:34:47 -0600

Motherboard naming conventions have never been easy to follow, but Asus threw us for a loop with its P5E3 Premium board. Is it an even better version of the stellar P5E3 Deluxe that we reviewed in January? Nope. The board actually features Intel’s newest enthusiast x48 chipset, which is, umm, 10 more than the x38 used in the P5E Deluxe board.

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In the Lab: Gordon Mah Ung Introduces New System Benchmarks

Gordon Mah Ung — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 19:07:57 -0600

The yardstick we use to measure review systems just got updated - meet the new quad-core zero-point systems, and our Vista benchmarks!

Watchdog: December 2007

The Maximum PC Staff — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 13:51:06 -0600

Our consumer advocate investigates "quad-core" P4, a Wolf King that won't get up, and a camera recall.