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Best Gaming CPUs For The Money: October 2014Oct 21, 2014 - in Reviews
This month witnesses the introduction of new budget-oriented AMD Athlon X4 860K and Intel Pentium G3250 processors, along with a surprising number of price adjustments from both camps. Even still, our list of recommendations goes relatively unscathed.
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AMD FX-8370E Review: Pulling The Handbrake For More EfficiencySep 22, 2014 - in Reviews
Going more slowly is more efficient. That’s what AMD must have thought when they designed its new FX-8370E processor, thus closing a gap in the company's line-up. We evaluate whether this CPU is really more efficient and what happens when we overclock it.
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Tom's Hardware's Haswell-E-Based Builder SweepstakesSep 16, 2014 - in Picture Story
We're ready to give away 10 Haswell-E CPUs and as many Intel SSDs. How do you enter to win? Check out these 11 systems put together by some of the top builders, all based the new Core i7 processors, and let us know which ones you like best!
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Intel Xeon E5-2600 V3 Review: Haswell-EP Redefines FastSep 8, 2014 - in Reviews
We compare three generations of Intel's Xeon E5-2690 processors, plus the flagship Xeon E5-2699 v3 to see how Haswell-EP affects the datacenter.
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AMD Updates Desktop FX Processor Line With Three New CPUs, Price CutsSep 2, 2014 - in News
AMD Now Offers Eight-Core Processors For 95-Watt Motherboards, providing a low-budget upgrade path to respectable multi-threading performance. In addition, the new FX-8370 processor has arrived, and prices have been cut across the board.
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Intel Core i7-5960X, -5930K And -5820K CPU Review: Haswell-E RisesAug 29, 2014 - in Reviews
Were you disappointed by last year's Ivy Bridge-E launch? Core i7-5960X, -5930K, and -5820K promise more excitement, sporting up to eight cores, DDR4 memory, a new X99 chipset, and an LGA 2011-3 interface. Should you jump to upgrade, though?
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Researchers Suggest That Semiconductors Can be Grown Instead of PrintedFeb 28, 2013 - in News
Researchers proposed a new method of manufacturing "the smallest structures in electronics".
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Nvidia Intros Tegra 4i System-on-Chip with Integrated LTEFeb 19, 2013 - in News
Nvidia is bringing the super phone experience to the mainstream smartphone market with the new Tegra 4i chip.
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Intel Begins External Hunt for Otellini ReplacementFeb 13, 2013 - in News
Intel may be looking outwards for its next CEO.
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Obama Applauds Apple, Intel For U.S. Manufacturing JobsFeb 13, 2013 - in News
President stresses importance of creating jobs within America.
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GlobalFoundries Unleashing 7-nm Process Tech in 2017Feb 13, 2013 - in News
GlobalFoundries is expected to ramp up to 7-nm process technology by 2017.
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Gaming Shoot-Out: 18 CPUs And APUs Under $200, BenchmarkedFeb 11, 2013 - in Reviews
Now that Piledriver-based CPUs and APUs are widely available (and the FX-8350 is selling for less than $200), it's a great time to compare value-oriented chips in our favorite titles. We're also breaking out a test that conveys the latency between frames.
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Report: AMD Richland APUs Will Hit Shelves March 19thFeb 6, 2013 - in News
More information has been revealed regarding the launch dates of AMDs upcoming APUs and CPUs.
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Zotac Updates ZBOX nano XS with Radeon HD 7340Feb 5, 2013 - in News
The XS version of Zotac's ZBOX nano Series of mini-PCs now sports AMD's Brazos 2.0 platform.
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Intel Confirms More Dual-Core Androids Will Be At MWCFeb 4, 2013 - in News
New smartphones, tablets and ultrabooks using Intel processors to be unveiled at the event.
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Memory Scaling, AMD's Trinity APUs, And Game PerformanceFeb 3, 2013 - in Reviews
When it comes to gaming, the integrated Radeon on AMD's Trinity architecture crushes the HD Graphics 4000 engine native to Intel's fastest Ivy Bridge CPU. But we want to make a good thing better. How much does fast memory help boost an APU's performance?
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Toshiba Currently the Only One to Adopt Tegra 4?Feb 2, 2013 - in News
Sources seem to be jumping the gun a bit, saying Tegra 4 is slow to attract tablet and smartphone makers.
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UPDATE: Haswell i7 Engineering Sample Up Against i7 3770KJan 31, 2013 - in News
The guys at OCLab.ru have managed to get a hold on an engineering sample of a Haswell CPU and ran some benchmarks on it.
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Bill Keitel Stepping Down as Qualcomm CFOJan 31, 2013 - in News
After serving nearly 17 years at Qualcomm, William "Bill" Keitel is retiring.
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Qualcomm Q4 $1.91B Profit Due to Smartphone DemandJan 31, 2013 - in News
Generated revenues of $6.02 billion.
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Report: Intel Ivy Bridge EX Will Sport Up to 15 CoresJan 31, 2013 - in News
This year Intel's 'Brickland' platform is to arrive, starting with Ivy Bridge-EX and continuing on to Haswell-EX and later Broadwell-EX server CPUs.
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UPDATE: AMD Drops Price of Bulldozer Based FX-4130 CPUJan 31, 2013 - in News
A new price point for a Zambezi based part on the Bulldozer architecture.
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This Interactive Whiteboard Has a Built-In Core i5-based PCJan 29, 2013 - in News
Question is, can we play PC games on it?
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Mobile Haswell Celeron CPU's arriving Q4 2013Jan 29, 2013 - in News
While we can already expect mobile Haswell chips around Q2 2013, more information has been released regarding the cheaper Celeron CPUs.
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AMD Richland APU Will Boost up to 4.4GHzJan 29, 2013 - in News
More details emerge on AMD's next generation of APUs codenamed 'Richland,' which will be released during Q2 2013.
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Nvidia Wants To Build Tegra Reference DevicesJan 29, 2013 - in News
Nvidia may provide reference designs for smartphones and tablets.
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Intel Gets Green Light for $4 Billion Irish Chip PlantJan 26, 2013 - in News
New plant will have more than 244,000 square meters.
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New PS4 Specs Leak Based on January's Development KitJan 25, 2013 - in News
The PlayStation 4 spec list has been refreshed thanks to Orbis documentation and the development kit.
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New Details Uncovered on AMD Richland APUsJan 24, 2013 - in News
More details emerge on AMD's next generation of APUs codenamed 'Richland', which will be released during Q2 2013.
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FX Vs. Core i7: Exploring CPU Bottlenecks And AMD CrossFireJan 23, 2013 - in Reviews
AMD and Intel continue serving up increasingly faster CPUs. But graphics card performance is accelerating even faster. Is there still such a thing as processor-bound gaming? We take two Radeon HD 7970s, high-end desktop CPUs, and a few games to find out.