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Intel X25-M SSDs Performance Degrades Over Time
With the recent discovery by Anandtech that JMicron-based cheap SSDs can introduce multi-second lockup/lag in a system and that Intel’s ultra-pricey X25-M SSDs didn’t suffer from the problem, it was looking like folks that had to have an SSD and were willing to pay for it had a chance at salvation… not so fast. PC Perspective [...]
Continue reading...Intel Announces Price Cuts
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
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 [...]
Continue reading...Not All SSDs Are Equal – Some Will Kill Your Computer’s Performance
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Not all solid state drives (SSDs) are created equal it seems. Taking a quick glance at the Newegg SSD product listings for 32GB drives, you can get an idea that there is something different between a $300 OCZ and a $600 Intel SSD. A big thanks to Patrick Norton for sending this information in — it [...]
Continue reading...Quad-Core Computer Confusion… Which One Should I Get?
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Intel Core i7 (Nehalem) 25% Faster Than Core 2 Platforms
Thursday, November 6, 2008
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 [...]
Continue reading...Intel Claims Upcoming Core i7 Nehalem Architecture to be 50% Faster
Thursday, October 9, 2008
Expreview.com got ahold of a marketing doc from Intel that claimed the upcoming Nehalem-based “Core i7″ architecture would be approximately 50% faster than the existing 3.2Ghz QX9770 CPU. More specifically the document quotes the following vauge-ish values: 38% more rendering performance 41% more movie editing and conversion performance 52% more 3D gaming performance Let’s try and de-marketing-asshole-ify these numbers [...]
Continue reading...Intel Core 2 Q9550 Quad Core Processor Retail $285
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
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.
Continue reading...Intel Nehalem Benchmarks: 50-100% Performance Increases
Thursday, June 5, 2008
First, thanks to Grant Gochnauer for sending this across, it’s a kick-ass preview of the upcoming (end of year most likely) Nehalem CPUs and Chipsets from Intel. Secondly let’s thank Anandtech for sneaking into the Intel expo and capping off these benchmarks for us. Quick Tips Nehalem is the upcoming CPU design from Intel at 45nm to [...]
Continue reading...AMD Attacks Intel Using “We Suck” Strategy
Sunday, February 17, 2008
In an interesting strategic strategy, AMD has decided to partner with Dell (who almost dropped them from their server lineup) to release a Three-Core (yea, tri-core) server line of Phenom computers. The icing on the cake? The 3-core (aka “Tard Core”) Phenoms are actually just quad-core Phenoms with 1 core disabled… so that’s awesome. I’ve never heard [...]
Continue reading...OLPC Responds to Intel’s Withdrawl
Thursday, January 10, 2008
The OLPC foundation responds to the departure of Intel from the foundation. I’ll just inline the entire quote because it more or less p0wns Intel for only ever joining the foundation for marketing reasons and having never contributed anything (technology, code, design or otherwise) and constantly trying to usurp OLPC with their own low-powered laptops [...]
Continue reading...Intel Z-P140 SSD Kicks Other SSD’s Asses
Thursday, December 20, 2007
We have covered Solid State Drives (SSDs) here a lot over the past few months, with the general consensus being that they are small in capacity but fast. Some user comments have suggested that stability and longevity of these devices just isn’t there yet however. While most of these SSDs are the size of a normal [...]
Continue reading...AMD’s Quad-Core CPUs Having Severe Problems
Tuesday, December 4, 2007
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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Thursday, February 19, 2009
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