Intel put out some numbers to show that Core i7 and Core i5 are viable options and performs better than the older Core 2 Quad. In a series of five tests (some very old) we see the Lynnfield i5 @ ...

Right away we see a healthy 7.5% performance increase in the 3Dmark Vantage CPU test when comparing the new Core i7 920 (2.66GHz) processor to the Core 2 Quad Q9650 (3.00GHz), which is obviously very ...

Intel yesterday announced it was cutting prices on many of its x86 microprocessors and introducing new, higher speed bins. The move seems aimed to boost sales and clear inventory, as well as to keep ...

Intel has never had such a cash cow as the Core architecture. When Intel released the Pentium brand name, Intel made a name for itself as the high point for computer processors. It wasn't till AMD's ...

Core 2 Quad when Q9650 core the arteries are 3GHz, supports 1333MHz FSB, to construct 12MB L2 Cache (6MB x 2), highest TDP is 95W. Will lie in the frequency multiplication with the Core 2 Extreme ...

When Intel launched their P35 chipset two months ago, it ushered in not only DDR3 support, but also native 1333FSB support. This wasn’t much of a surprise, since DDR3-1333 is a standard, and it’s ...

Clearly moving to an on-die memory controller has paid dividends as the Core i7 920 squeezed out a memory bandwidth of 17GB/s in SiSoftware Sandra using nothing more than DDR3 memory running at ...