8 September 2009, 05:00
Intel's Nehalem architecture is brought to the mainstream with new Lynnfield chips. Find out if you should buy one as we take a look at three, plus the P55 chipset.
13 August 2009, 05:15
AMD launches its fastest-ever desktop processor, we take a look.
3 June 2009, 05:00
What do you get with 3.33GHz clock-speed, four cores, and eight threads?
2 June 2009, 00:00
Find out if it's £50-£75 well-spent on a CPU.
23 April 2009, 05:00
Cranking up the frequency and adding memory flexibility, has Phenom II come of age? We find out.
9 February 2009, 05:00
But is the Force strong in AMD?
8 January 2009, 05:00
Faster clocks with room to spare, are the Phenom II CPUs from AMD too little, too late?
15 December 2008, 09:54
AMD's officially launching dual-core Athlons based on quad-core Phenom technology. Good enough to beat out Core 2? We tell you.
3 November 2008, 09:31
We take three Intel Core i7 processors and put them up against the best of the rest. See who wins.
3 November 2008, 05:00
Intel takes the wraps off Core i7 - we take an architecture tour and tell you if it's any good.
23 April 2008, 04:15
AMD's tri-core Phenom X3 processor aims to fill the void between dual-core and quad-core. Does it succeed?
18 April 2008, 08:48
AMD's 50-series Phenom processors, complete with B3 stepping, promise to put Phenom back on the map. Is there finally light at the end of the tunnel for AMD's now erratum-free ...
7 December 2007, 08:07
The AMD Phenom 9900 Spider platform looks fantastic on paper. But does reality reinforce or negate that opinion?
28 November 2007, 06:57
Intel paper-launches a processor that's not really needed, is it?
19 November 2007, 11:31
AMD rolls out its quad-core Phenom processor and new 7-series chipset to do battle with Intel's year-old Core 2 Quad. Who wins?
29 October 2007, 10:12
Intel stretches its desktop performance lead via the launch of the 45nm-based Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650. You will want one.
20 August 2007, 08:58
All around the web, everyone wants to know how well retail G0-stepping Core 2 Quad CPUs overclock. With G0-stepping Q6600s hard to find, we picked up a Core 2 Quad ...
16 July 2007, 05:02
Today, Intel is launching a revised range of mid-market-to-high-end Core 2 processors, still 65nm but with a faster front-side bus. Are they fast enough to get CPU lovers everywhere reaching ...
9 April 2007, 05:01
The £600+ asking price will give you class-leading performance, sure, but only if you can fully exploit the 4 execution cores by routinely engaging in heavy multitasking.
20 February 2007, 21:57
Bottom line - the online pricing is realistic and the AM2 form factor makes a lot more sense than the Socket-F Quad-FX, yet K8-class technology just does not have the ...
18 January 2007, 08:59
HEXUS establishes whether AMD's QuadFX can hand out a beating to Intel's own quad-core offering - and how does QuadFX shape up to Intel's dual-core X6800?
30 November 2006, 07:16
Four is now the magic number. Forget dual-core and twin graphics cards in SLI or CrossFire mode - they're so last month...
2 November 2006, 05:00
We got our hands on all of them, and put them up against a variety of pretenders, from Core 2 Duo and Pentium D stable mates to AMD’s current dual-core ...
28 September 2006, 19:59
We've shown you pictures and given you the release date, but just how fast is Intel's Kentsfield processor? We've had the chance to take the quad core chip for ...
14 July 2006, 05:00
Intel, then, has moved the goalposts as far as consumer-level CPUs are concerned. Its low-end Core 2 Duo parts are more than a match for anything that has come before ...
23 May 2006, 05:01
There's no real need for a summary. The benchmarks tell all. Intel's Conroe outmuscles every current consumer CPU. Would you buy an AMD Athlon 64 FX-62 now? K8-L can't come ...
23 May 2006, 05:00
It's a heady tale of core performance, bandwidth, competition, performance and much more. It's played out on a stage of dual-core 90nm SOI silicon and our hero is Athlon 64 ...
22 March 2006, 16:02
Got £700 and absolutely want to spend it all on a CPU? Define what your workload priorities are and choose whether the Intel Pentium Extreme Edition 965 or AMD Athlon ...
10 January 2006, 04:45
There's not much suspense to hold with this new CPU. The mystique of whether or not the next Athlon 64 FX would be single or dual core was dashed a ...
27 December 2005, 16:10
The days of performance single-core CPUs are numbered, even for gamers, with the likes of ATI and NVIDIA investing in multi-CPU driver support that makes better use of the parallel ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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