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

Thursday, November 6, 2008

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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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DDR2-800 vs DDR3-1333, Does Speed Matter?

Monday, February 11, 2008

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Summary: NO (Incase you don’t want to read further) I set out to build myself a new desktop recently and one of the decisions I had to make was “Do I go with DDR3, or stick with DDR2?”, then of course if you stick with DDR2, do you go with oldie 800 ram or shoot for [...]

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How Important is Fast Memory?

Wednesday, August 29, 2007

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You have heard this 1000 times: I am building a new gaming rig and want it to run crazy fast. Should I pay 2x the price for the super-fast gaming memory? The short answer is no. Take a look at some of the results of benchmarking the latest cutting edge DDR3-1800 memory from OCZ here. If you [...]

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