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Intel Haswell Chip Cranked to 5GHz at Just 0.9V

Posted 05/10/2013 at 9:40am | by Paul Lilly

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How high can Intel's Core i7 4770K go?

When's the last time you saw a tablet or smartphone overclocked to 5GHz and beyond? The answer is "never" and it probably won't happen for a long, long time yet. On the desktop, well, that's an entirely different story. Not only are high overclocks common, but early looks at overclocking results on Intel's Haswell parts would indicate that the fun is just beginning, and you don't even need exotic cooling to participate.

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Zotac Slings an Intel Core i5 Processor Into Pint Sized Zbox

Posted 05/08/2013 at 9:22am | by Paul Lilly

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Small form factor (SFF) computing meets up with Ivy Bridge.

When you stop and think about it, the amount of power in some of today's mini PC systems is pretty amazing. Enter Zotac, a company that lives and breathes small form factor (SFF) systems under its Zbox line, which today it infused with an Intel Core i5 3470T processor. It's a respectable desktop part built around Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture with two processing cores clocked at 2.9GHz (3.6GHz via Turbo), 3MB of cache, and a rated max TDP of 35W -- plenty powerful enough for general purpose computing.

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10 Things You Need To Know About Intel’s New Atom

Posted 05/06/2013 at 12:57pm | by Gordon Mah Ung

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How Intel's new Atom CPUs may be a game changer

10. It won’t suck.

Atom parts have long been the butt of our jokes for being the anti-performance parts that inspired the Netbook but anyone who ever tried to drive a Netbook for anything beyond browsing knows how much Atom’s sucked in performance. A dual-core, Hyper-Threaded 1.6Ghz Atom N2600 gives up a Cinebench 11.5 score of 0.47. That’s just barely faster than a single-core Athlon 64 3200’s score of 0.42. For reference, a Core i7-2600K gives up about 8.1 and a 3.2GHz Core 2 Duo E8200 gives you about 1.91. The actual performance isn’t known, but the new “Silvermont” version of Atom should offer far more performance than we've ever seen before.

Click the "Read More" button for nine other things you need to know about Intel's new Atom CPU.

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Intel Details Atom "Silvermont" Architecture

Posted 05/06/2013 at 11:30am | by Paul Lilly

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Silvermont is significantly different from Atom architectures that have preceded it.

Ladies and gentlemen, meet Silvermont, the codename for the next generation of Intel's Atom line and the first in a family of yearly refreshes. Oh, and forget any preconceived notions you have about Atom, Silvermont is far different from the architecture found in your first or second generation notebook. It's a brand new design using Intel's 22nm 3D Tri-Gate SoC (System-on-Chip), which Intel claims will deliver "significant increases in performance and energy efficiency."

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AMD Cuts Desktop Processor Pricing Up to 19 Percent

Posted 05/01/2013 at 10:57am | by Paul Lilly

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In with the new, and in with price cuts too!

AMD recently launched a pair of FX-Series Piledriver processors, FX-4350 and FX-6350, and hot on heels of those new chips is a round of price cuts to some older parts. The Sunnyvale chip designer slashed the price of 10 chips in all, most of which received a double-digit percentage discount. In fact, the smallest price cut was 9.5 percent, and the two others that technically don't qualify as double digits were both dropped by 9.9 percent.

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AMD Launches Two New FX-Series Piledriver CPUs

Posted 04/30/2013 at 11:07pm | by Pulkit Chandna

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The FX-4350 and FX-6350 are slightly faster than comparable CPUs already in the lineup

Advanced Micro Devices has added two new SKUs to its FX family of Vishera-based high-end microprocessors. The chipmaker announced the launch of the quad-core FX 4350 and the hexa-core FX-6350 CPUs in a blog post Monday

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Intel Confirms Haswell Will Launch on June 3rd at Computex

Posted 04/28/2013 at 4:08pm | by Justin Kerr

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Countdown

A countdown begins for geeks, by geeks.

We all knew it was coming this summer, but now we also know it will only be 3,337,200,000,000,000 more nanoseconds until Haswell officially launches. Our back-of-the-envelope calculations align this countdown with Computex 2013, a show we fully expect to be dominated by Intel powered machines showing off the new architecture.

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Intel Atom-based Android Notebooks to Cost $200

Posted 04/26/2013 at 7:21am | by Paul Lilly

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Android will attack the low cost notebook market.

Intel CEO Paul Otellini recently said that touchscreen PCs could start selling for as little as $200 sometime in the next few months, though it's tough to imagine a Windows 8-based machine carrying such a low price tag. That's because they probably won't. Instead of Windows 8, most of these affordable PCs will be laptop machines built around Google's open source Android platform.

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Intel Reports a $2 Billion Profit During Paul Otellini's Last Full Quarter as CEO

Posted 04/16/2013 at 3:00pm | by Paul Lilly

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The sky didn't fall far for Intel, which met its revenue target for Q1.

Analysts can crow all they want about how the PC market is disintegrating, the world's largest semiconductor player still made a killing. We're of course referring to Intel, which today posted first quarter revenue of $12.6 billion, operating income of $2.5 billion, and net income of $2 billion. All of those are down to some extent, but how many businesses would jump at the chance to switch places with Intel?

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Cooler Master Seidon 120M Review

Posted 04/16/2013 at 2:11pm | by Jimmy Thang

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Won’t break the bank or any records

With the vast majority of closed-loop water-cooling kits based on either Asetek or CoolIt designs, Cooler Master’s in-house-designed Seidon 120M easily stands out from the crowd. At just $70, it’s one of the more affordable kits we’ve seen, too, and though it’s not the answer to our cooling prayers, it proves you don’t need to spend a lot of money to get a decent water cooler.

Note: This review originally appeared in the February 2013 issue of the magazine.

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