In the later parts of Summer 2009, I was in an overclocking competition. Someone was talking about lowering the number of cores so that they could increase the overall speed of the CPU. This made sense, sort of.
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10/27
2009
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Still one of the most popluar chips on the market today.
Read More10/8
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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10/7
2009
2009
AMD’s Athlon II X2 240 CPU looks like a price/performance winner.
Read More9/25
2009
2009
Overclocking the new Phenom II CPUs requires a new overclocking technique to obtain a high overclock.
9/21
2009
2009
Four Cores for $100: Athlon II X4 630 and Athlon II X4 620 CPU Review by Xbit Labs – a good review on AMD’s cheapy 4 core CPUs. The bottom line: You get what you pay for.
Read More9/18
2009
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9/9
2009
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Intel officially launches the new “Lynnfield” CPU series and the results look like a love-fest.
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.
8/17
2009
2009
Seems to me there’s been a lot of hyper-ventilating about AMD’s Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition with some implying it’s an overclocker’s dream. My friends at XBit Labs have taken a close look at what’s possible (HERE) and concluded:
“…[The] new Phenom II X4 965 working at 3.4 GHz frequency is pretty much as fast as Core 2 Quad Q9550 at 2.83 GHz nominal speed and fall behind Core i7-920 with even lower nominal frequency of 2.66 GHz. So, AMD CPUs lose to Intel competitors quite significantly in IPC (instructions per clock). It is this particular fact, but not the insufficiently high clock speeds, that do not allow AMD solutions to find their way into the high-end price segments.
Moreover, considering that Phenom II X4 965 has increased to 140 W typical heat dissipation, its launch seems even more to be the “last resort”. We obviously shouldn’t expect Phenom II X4 processor family to speed up any further, at least until new Deneb core stepping comes out (which we have no information of so far). So, Phenom II X4 965 will most likely remain the fastest quad-core AMD processor for a while. And within this period of time Intel may not only expand their Lynnfield processor family, but also start production of 32 nm technologies. In other words, while today we reviewed Phenom II X4 965 as a mainstream solution, in the near future Phenom II X4 processor family will have be just a low-cost quad-core offering, like first generation Phenom X4 CPUs.”
Sounds like too little, too late.
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