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It’s for another processor launch from Intel. The new Ivy Bridge is a 22nm architecture based on the same LGA1155 socket as Sandy Bridge. It’s basically a shrunken die from Sandy Bridge (32nm) supporting many of the…

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It’s been called the best looking gamer motherboard series since modding a PC became an in thing. GIGABYTE G1.Killer series has a tight hold on this market segment and doesn’t show any signs of loosening up on…

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It’s the “Year of the Tock” when Intel launches a revision of their latest processor architecture which is named Sandy Bridge. Instead of an all new name, it’s simply being called Sandy Bridge-E. The most obvious changes…

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It is time to poke even deeper into AMD’s latest flagship processor, the FX-8150. We covered a lot of ground in Part 1 with our first impressions of the FX-8150 and the pieces that make up the new…

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For the last ten years AMD have consistently improved on a single architecture, which is an incredible feat all on its own. As a result, consumers have benefited from a cost effective upgrade path, generation after generation. While raw performance of…

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Earlier this year, AMD made it very clear that they wanted to challenge Intel in several market segments. The first fight was over low power, light weight laptops with the launch of the AMD E-350 which took…

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Earlier this year, we had a look at INTEL’s Core i7 980XE CPU which was quite the spectacle being that it was the company’s first six core processor. On the other hand, the launch for Intel’s Core i7-990XE…

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Sandy Bridge is Intel’s next generation 32nm architecture processor adding to their already illustrious CPU genealogy. While Sandy Bridge is architecturally similar to the Core i3, i5, and i7 processors featuring an integrated memory controller and on-die integrated graphics,…

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It’s a good day to be an AMD fan as the company has done a top to bottom refresh of your favourite bang for the buck CPU line up. While AMD could sit around all day at…

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“Say what! Another processor?” Well, yeah, what else are they going to do over at Intel. Someone is always actively looking for good ways of making current generation processors better. Of course, these are just the ones…

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This week AMD unleashed a new processor to the world. While not quite to the fanfare as an over-hyped Apple product launch, their latest creations, the Phenom II X6 1090T 3.2GHz Black Edition and Phenom II X6…

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Last month AMD quietly took the wraps off their latest chipset known as the 890GX. Though the new platform really doesn’t give us anything brand new, it does provide a meaningful update to the original 785G and…