Dolk uses his knowledge and insight to bring us an article on how Bulldozer works, and his view on this latest architecture from AMD.
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10/19
2010
2010
O ATI, ATI, wherefore art thou ATI?
A cheap Shakespearean knock-off reference doesn’t really do justice to the way AMD has positioned itself currently with the pending Radeon 6000 series release along with its line of “Llano” APUs… But then, I’m not really much of a writer, and this ain’t no renaissance. AMD has closed the book on its successful history with ATI branding by recently folding ATI into the AMD name as one in the same. In doing so, the dramatic timing and importance of this shift is AMD making a statement that should not go discounted. They are saying… AMD is bold. AMD is confident. AMD is ready to ring in a new era changing the landscape upon which the game is played.
Read More9/9
2010
2010
Several months ago, there was some news worthy mentions from many sites about the Foxconn made sockets for the P55 (Socket 1156) platform including Anandtech’s article. When the issue was in its prime, one would see many forum users suggesting others to stay away from motherboard “X” because it has a Foxconn socket and could burn up. Looking back, was this type of response warranted? Did Foxconn or even Lotes sockets all over the world melt or char CPU’s at an alarming rate? Lets see what time has told us.
Read More6/9
2010
2010
A hot topic on the benchmarking scene has developed in the form of a HWBOT forum poll created by BenchZowner to discuss whether or not to continue to allow Engineering Sample CPUs as boint scoring hardware. For those that may not know, an ES chip is one that is not released to the public, cannot be sold (legally), and can be coveted for its potential overclocking performance over retail chips. A lot of the sponsored overclockers use these chips and can potentially score more boints than an average joe that is using an unbinned retail chip, which is essentially the heart of the matter.
Read More4/29
2010
2010
Overclockers Forum members already have their hands on these new Thuban processors and aren’t wasting any time putting them to the test. Pictures and links to full details of results, from everyday forum users!
Read More3/10
2010
2010
It didn’t take long, and I expected companies to attempt to use this to their advantage from a marketing standpoint, but I didn’t expect it to be so blunt!
Read More10/29
2009
2009
As some of you already know, this is a VERY loaded question and the answer you will get depends on who you ask.
10/8
2009
2009
With the release of P55 and Lynnfield, it begged the question of how they stack up to X58 and Bloomfield. Are socket 1156 Core i7s worthy of being called Core i7?
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9/18
2009
2009
9/8
2009
2009
It’s worth reading Intel’s Core 5 Analyzed and Tested article from Maximum PC to scope out what’s coming down the CPU pike.
