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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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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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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.
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PC Processor Sales Expected to Grow Just Just 1.6% in 2013Jan 21, 2013 - in News
Market researchers do not believe that the market conditions for microprocessor makers will improve anytime soon.
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CPU Charts 2012: 86 Processors From AMD And Intel, TestedDec 23, 2012 - in Reviews
Benchmarking 86 CPUs takes a while. After long last, though, we have 51 models from AMD and 35 from Intel tested in our current suite. If you want to know how your processor sizes up to its competition, you'll find plenty of comparison data inside!
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AMD Slams Intel's Atom S Processor: ''Too Little, Too Late''Dec 11, 2012 - in News
AMD reacted to Intel's announcement of its Atom S microserver processor today with a rather interesting email that was sent out to media.
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Analysts, Vendors Discuss Future of Mobile Processing PowerDec 10, 2012 - in News
Vendors are said to be moving focus away from reliance on mobile processors.
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Intel: We're Still Committed To SocketsDec 6, 2012 - in News
Intel has finally stepped forth to defend its position on socket-based CPUs.
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Tom's Hardware's 2012 Gift Guide, Part 1: For System BuildersNov 20, 2012 - in Picture Story
Welcome to our most-anticipated event of the year, the 2012 Holiday Gift Guide! Today, in Part 1, we have three of our most stunning models ever displaying an arousing array of components for your system config consideration. Deep breath...and enjoy.
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Intel, AMD, Nvidia Claim Greenest Supercomputer TechnologyNov 14, 2012 - in News
The world's most prestigious supercomputers are usually spotlighted in the Top500 list of the world's fastest systems.
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AMD FX-4170 Vs. Intel Core i3-3220: Which ~$125 CPU Should You Buy?Oct 14, 2012 - in Reviews
AMD has the clock rate on its side. But Intel's Ivy Bridge architecture boasts superior IPC throughput. We pit the 4.2 GHz FX-4170 against Intel's new 3.3 GHz Core i3-3220 in an effort to determine which CPU is the better buy for $125.
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Gaming At 1920x1080: AMD's Trinity Takes On Intel HD GraphicsSep 26, 2012 - in Reviews
Think you're pretty snazzy because your integrated graphics core plays mainstream games at 1280x720? We're on to bigger and better things, like modern titles at 1920x1080. Can AMD's Trinity architecture push high-enough frame rates to make this possible?
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Better With Time? The A8-3870 And Pentium G630, One Year LaterSep 9, 2012 - in Reviews
AMD's desktop APUs, which combine x86 cores and graphics resources, emerged more than a year ago. We take a Llano-based A8-3870 and compare its performance from 2011 to what you get today using new drivers, application versions, and OpenCL acceleration.
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Ex-Intel Employee Jailed for Stealing Company SecretsAug 9, 2012 - in News
A man was finally sentenced to three years in federal prison for stealing Intel secrets back in 2008.
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Intel: Slower Growth Ahead; May Have Taken Share from AMDJul 17, 2012 - in News
Intel has posted its highly anticipated Q2 quarter results, which were preceded by reports of slowing PC sales and predictions of a decelerating PC business overall.
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Intel, AMD Earnings Expectation Cut, Nvidia DowngradedJul 16, 2012 - in News
Intel and AMD are due to report their second quarter earnings this week.
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AMD Backing Out of CPU Speed Wars Against IntelMay 23, 2012 - in News
AMD's future is not in making the fastest processors.
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Former Intel Employee Pleads Guilty to Data TheftApr 9, 2012 - in News
36-year Biswamohan Pani old has pleaded guilty of stealing chip design documents valued at several hundred million dollars from his former employer Intel.
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Intel Rules Chip Market: Share Jumps to a 10-Year HighMar 27, 2012 - in News
Intel once again topped the chip maker ranking of 2011.
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HP Briefly Lists AMD Trinity, Intel Ivy Bridge NotebooksMar 20, 2012 - in News
HP Thailand apparently leaked some information about upcoming notebooks that can be purchased with Intel Ivy Bridge and AMD Trinity processors.
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AMD Steals Market Share From IntelMar 16, 2012 - in News
PC microprocessor sales climbed to $10.9 billion in the fourth quarter of last year, up 1.8 percent sequentially, and up 14.2 percent.
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Battle At $140: Can An APU Beat An Intel CPU And Add-In Graphics?Feb 28, 2012 - in Reviews
What can you get for $140? How about AMD's top-of-the-line A8-3870K APU with four CPU cores and an integrated Radeon HD 6550D? That's also enough for a Pentium G620 and discrete Radeon HD 6670. We benchmark both to uncover the best budget-oriented option.
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Graphics Chip Shipments Down 10 Percent in Q4 2012Feb 24, 2012 - in News
The impact of the Taiwan flood reached through to graphics chips as shipments dropped from 138.5 million units in Q3 to 124 million in Q3, Jon Peddie Research (JPR) reports. Shipments were up 10 million units year-over-year.
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AMD FX Vs. Intel Core i3: Exploring Game Performance With Cheap GPUsFeb 22, 2012 - in Reviews
Following our sub-$200 gaming CPU comparison, we put Intel's Core i3-2100 and AMD's FX-4100 under the microscope. This time, we test a number of different graphics cards from AMD to see how GPUs affect perceived processor bottlenecks.
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Picking A Sub-$200 Gaming CPU: FX, An APU, Or A Pentium?Jan 29, 2012 - in Reviews
We really like to hunt down great values in the processor space. Since our last round-up of affordable CPUs, AMD released its Llano-based APUs and Bulldozer-based FX family. Also, Intel introduced a handful of Sandy Bridge-based Pentium chips.
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Chris Angelini On Tom's Hardware In 2012Jan 16, 2012 - in Reviews
I just got back from CES 2012. And although I’ve attended a great many Consumer Electronics Shows, Computexes, and Comdexes (never a CeBIT), this year’s show was by far the most intense. It wasn’t that there were tons of really awesome products. In fact,
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Eurocom Racer: Radeon HD 6990M In A Truly Mobile Form FactorJan 2, 2012 - in Reviews
Sporting awesome gaming performance and low power draw, the only thing missing from our previous Radeon HD 6990M benchmarks was an efficient, portable package. Eurocom addresses that with its mid-sized Racer. But can the smaller notebook keep pace?
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Intel Expands CPU Market Share in Q3 to 84 PercentDec 23, 2011 - in News
Intel was able to increase its lead microprocessor sales over AMD in the third quarter of 2011
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Quad-core CPUs About to Surpass Dual-cores for GamersDec 14, 2011 - in News
The latest data set published in the Steam Hardware & Software Survey suggests that processors with four cores are, five years after their introduction, ready to capture the top spot in gamer popularity.
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Intel: AMD is Still a "Serious Competitor" ... on PriceDec 6, 2011 - in News
In a third interview with Nordic Hardware, Pat Bliemer, the Managing Director of Intel Northern Europe, discusses AMD's Llano, Integrated Graphics and how it can compete in the market.