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It almost seems like yesterday that I started down the yellow brick road to technology with my first real office computer which had an Intel 80486DX2 Processor. A couple years later, the local PC store built me…

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It wasn’t too long ago that we revealed Intel’s 2009 Processor Roadmap revealing what was in store with the Nehalem 45nm and 32nm CPU microarchitectures. We’ve seen the Bloomfield processor, the Ferrari of Intel processors, smoke…

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When it comes to selecting the components for your home theatre PC (HTPC), the one biggest problem is how to balance performance and heat. Since heat needs to be exhausted away from the computer, and the primary way…

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The Core i5 Lynnfield is officially here! Despite many leaks and e-tailer mistakes, the platform made it from out of the cloud of an NDA (non disclosure agreement) beaten up but with still much left to tell.…

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We were recently honored with an invitation to GIGABYTE’s official P55 Motherboard launch party which turned out to be a very informative event. As always, there was massive amounts of fraternizing and partying all night long. Ok,…

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Every time AMD releases a new processor, one question is on the tip of the tongues of enthusiasts everywhere: Is this the product to finally take the performance crown from Intel? I have to say that the AMD…

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Processors seemingly come and go as fast as the seasons. One minute, your system is the top of the line and the next it’s last month’s news. Sometimes, newly revised processors make sense and sometimes they don’t. If you’re an…

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The sale of platforms vs individual components have been things that both AMD and INTEL have played with. INTEL had some early success with their Centrino mobile platform, and caused such a stir amongst mobile users that people started to…

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Despite the current state of the economy, there are companies still making progress. They know when and how to make the changes necessary to benefit themselves in the long run. Regardless of what today’s news outlets are saying, the hungriest…

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The AMD Phenom faced a fairly rocky start, but the guys in green are trucking forward and have started releasing new processors into the wild. These new chips are of a different stepping, and feature fixes for many…

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It’s been a while since AMD has been in the position of the scrappy underdog. For several years they held the performance crown in desktop processors. Then came the Summer of 2006 and at COMPUTEX 2006, Intel released…