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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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