Intel Lynnfield Core i5 750 and Core i7 870 Processor Review

Introduction Intel is on the verge of transitioning to 32nm. We'll see the first parts this year. What do you do with your 45nm fabs when you start moving volume away from them? Make really cheap quad-core Nehalems of course: I'm talking $196. I'm talking faster than AMD's entire lineup. I'm talking about arguably the best processor of [...]

Intel Core i7 870 Preview

Benchmark results of new Intel Core i7 870 (Lynnfield) CPU did appear a month ago along with some announcements about new CPUs (Core i7 870, Core i7 860 and Core i5 750) and new chipset (P55). We managed to get our hand on fully functional configuration based on Intel Core i7 870 CPU paired with Gigabyte GA-P55-UD5 motherboard. One of the [...]

ATI Radeon Used In Next Generation Apple Computers

AMD (NYSE: AMD) today announced that the world renowned ATI Radeon™ HD 4800 series, now found in some of the highest performance iMac and Mac Pro configurations, complements Snow Leopard's fully compliant OpenCL Version 1.0 implementation. As an open standard specification, OpenCL is a key enabler of ATI Stream technology, which allows [...]

AMD’s six-core, ultra-low-power Opteron EEs

There are three "rails" of wattage in AMD's architectural plan for its CPUs: its higher-performance SE line, its lowest-power EE line, and its hybrid HE line that trades some performance for power savings. Two months ago, AMD introduced its first six-core Opterons in the SE flavor first, setting the general trend for future rollouts; last [...]

Intel Core i5-750 Overclocking Preview

Core i5 Overclocking Test Setup Processor We used our retail purchased Intel Core i5-750 from Fry’s shown here. This processor is rated at 2.66GHz and utilizes the new socket LGA 1156. Our processor is S-spec # SLBLC, with a product code of BX80605I5750, and batch # L926B439. Motherboard For this overclocking shown here today, we [...]

AMD raises Phenom II ceiling to 3.4 GHz

Starting today, AMD is marketing a stepped-up version of its Dragon platform's top-of-the-line processor, the Phenom II X4 model 965, for a price of $245 in 1,000-unit quantities (the "tray" price, street prices may be a little higher). The "stepped-up" part of the bargain involves a feature that just two years ago, AMD's marketing team was [...]