Month: October 2007

After all the benchmarking of the Penryn, you can say the following: 1) Running stock, a Penryn is a little better than the equivalent C2D. 2) Overclocked, a Penryn is somewhat better than the equivalent C2D. 3) The only real

After all the benchmarking of the Penryn, you can say the following: 1) Running stock, a Penryn is a little better than the equivalent C2D. 2) Overclocked, a Penryn is somewhat better than the equivalent C2D. 3) The only real

I don’t think anyone sane would argue that the year 2007 could be described as “Intel stayed a step or two ahead of AMD, which drove AMD into the bargain basement.” Looking ahead to next year and a bit beyond,

We finally have someone testing a Barcelona. While this is definitely still a work in progress, I figured you might want to watch the work progressing. 🙂 There’s some SuperPi scores, and while they’re somewhat better clock-for-clock than X2s or

Penryns are beginning to show up at XtremeSystems Forums. Here’s what one person is getting with an air-cooled quad. These are pretty impressive results: almost 4.4GHz with 1.36V, almost 4.7GHz with 1.488V. Odds are the lower-end production units won’t do