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Bulldozer Architecture Explained

Dolk — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:11:47 +0000

George Harris is one of our most active Senior Members at the Overclockers.com Forums, as well as a frequent contributor to articles on the site. As a fifth year undergraduate at Missouri University of Science and Technology studying Computer Engineering (with an emphasis on Computer Architecture), he has both the knowledge and insight to br Read more ...

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AMD Radeon 6000 Series, Llano, Set to Debut

I.M.O.G. — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:36:57 +0000
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.
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Socket 1156 burning issues…is the fire out?

Earthdog — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 16:31:45 +0000
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.
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To ‘ES’ or not to ‘ES’? That is the HWBOT question…

Earthdog — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 15:07:39 +0000
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.
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I.M.O.G. — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 15:51:44 +0000

Forum users “icebob” and “1kingd2″ are already putting these new Thuban processors to the Overclockers test in the forums.

Both received their processors in the mail yesterday, and icebob didn’t waste any time getting it ready for the cold. Pictured here is “art eraser” around the CPU socket to ke Read more ...
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SuperBiiz “Genuine CPU Sale”

sno.lcn — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 21:25:50 +0000

If you’ve been online at all in the past week, you already know all about the counterfeit CPU issue with Newegg. If not, head to the Overclockers.com homepage and you’ll see plenty of articles about it.

I just received a promotional email from SuperBiiz (or ewiz) titled “The Genuin Read more ...
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Is There Life Left in Socket 775?

Earthdog — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 20:19:57 +0000

Many members here at Overclockers.com believe that since Socket 775 is a dead socket (meaning there are no more CPU’s coming out for it so no upgrade path) that it wouldn’t be worth purchasing.

To begin, even though there is not an upgrade path, I firmly believe most users that are at an enthusiast level would be happy with a lot of t Read more ...
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Core i7 Head-to-Head: 1156 vs. 1366

Joe C — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 14:29:48 +0000

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?

The curiosity was too much and I decided to find out, since I had one of each setup on hand. I began running benchmarks with the idea of doing a direct compari Read more ...
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Deathman20 — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 19:38:59 +0000

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Joe C — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:30:34 +0000

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.

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