The “Break it Down” Blog

Intel Announces Price Cuts

Intel, in a move to “kick AMD in the trash”, ran price cuts across their entire lineup of chips; some drops by as much as 40%. The list looks like this: Desktops – Quad-Core 3.0Ghz Q9650 = $316 2.83Ghz Q9550 = $266 2.66Ghz Q9400 = $213 2.50Ghz Q8300 = $183 2.33Ghz Q8200s = $163 Desktops – Dual Core 2.80Ghz E7400 = $113 2.60Ghz E5300 [...]

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Quad-Core Computer Confusion… Which One Should I Get?

Long time reader and all around great guy Gordon Walter wrote in and asked us about making heads or tails of the computer-offerings (especially the quad-core) computer offerings showing up online this holiday season. His questions were good ones and we thought it best to answer them for everyone to read. See our answers inlined below [...]

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Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) 25% Faster Than Core 2 Platforms

Thanks goes out to Grant Gochnauer for sending in some links about the new Intel Core i7 “Nehalem” launch. While not quite the “50-100% faster” claims that Intel was making… or even the “50% faster across the board” claims they made, Nehalem is still looking like a nice upgrade over the current Core 2 architecture. Just [...]

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Intel Core 2 Q9550 Quad Core Processor Retail $285

From Dealsea Frys has Intel Core 2 Q9550 Quad Core Processor Retail (2.83GHz, 4×3MB, 1333MHz FSB, LGA775 Socket T) for $280 + $5 shipping – Pretty badass deal, Newegg has this CPU for $320. To get a quad-core, high performance chip in your box, $285 is completely reasonable.

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AMD’s Quad-Core CPUs Having Severe Problems

Well AMD can’t catch a break… first they tackle Intel and p0wn them and maintain the lead for something like 4 years… in that time, they never fundamentally redesign their chip, simply releasing refresh after refresh of the same K7 core and then the K8 core. Intel responds with the Core Duo platform and shits all [...]

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Intel Jumps AMD to Quad Core Chips

I was really surprised to see this news today. I know that in response to the Core 2 Duo benchmarks AMD announced quad-core chips for next year in their top end gamer line of chips, so I figure that next year Intel will release a prototype of a quad-core chip later in 2007 to [...]

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