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We have a little song we sing here at APH Networks. It goes along with the tune of Taio Cruz's Dynamite radio hit that plays every five minutes on every North American popular music station. "I put my foot down to the floor sometimes / Saying VTEC / Just kicked in yo. / I want to mount my laser jammers on / Saying VTEC / Just kicked in yo." (Which replaces the chorus, "I throw my hands up in the air sometimes..."
I put my foot down to the floor sometimes. If you look at the products Intel has been spewing out to the mainstream and enthusiast markets in the past five years or so, "foot to the floor" is a pretty good description with regards to the incredible performance you are getting for the money, as compared to computer equipment in general, say, just ten years ago. When we reviewed the Intel Core i5-750 quad core desktop processor last year, its performance easily eclipsed the king of the hill $1000 Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 released just a couple of years before. For $200. More than a year after the release of Lynnfield Core i5 and i7 processors, Intel is back again with their latest release of code named "Sandy Bridge" processors. The bad news is that the traditional overclocking method by raising the processor's base clock does not work with second generation Core CPUs, because the new CPUs use a single clock generator controlling the speed of all electrical buses. The good news is, if you are willing to pay an extra $10 and give up business oriented features such as Intel TXT and Intel VT-d, the company will happily sell you a K edition processor with an unlocked multiplier up to 57x. With your mom, your uncle, your next door neighbor and just about everyone else hitting at least 4.5GHz for some Core i7-980X smoking performance (Well, and two less cores, but how many do you really need anyway?) at a fraction of the price, my advice to you is to get your credit card out and ready right about... now. Possibly your car keys, if you are going retail. Still not convinced? That's okay. We have eleven pages of geek talk coming up for you next. Actually, just a slight update since I wrote everything before this sentence prior January 31st, you might just need to wait a bit on Intel's now infamous P67 bug, since you can't buy any LGA 1155 boards right now.
As is common with AMD CPUs, the next in the Phenom-II X4 Black Edition series is being released; the Phenom-II X4-980BE HDZ980FBK4DGM. The X4-980BE will take over as AMDs flagship quad-core processor and guess what, it is 100MHz faster than the current quad-core king at 3.7GHz. Without surprise the Phenom-II X4-980BE will be released at the same price the X4-975BE was released in January 2011 with an MSRP of $195. And because we are just that reliable, Benchmark Reviews is here to give you the run down on the Phenom-II X4-980BE to show you how it stacks up against its younger brothers and the similarly priced (though slightly more expensive) Core i5-2500K.
The Second Generation of the Intel Core Processor Family took off this past January with many early adopters pleasantly surprised by the abundance of speed, updated technologies, and better graphics integration. The high-end option in the 2nd Gen family is the beastly Core i7-2600K. The i7-2600K takes on all the features of the 2nd Gen i5 series with 1 major addition to the specifications - Intel Hyper-Threading Technology. Join us at TechwareLabs as we discover the workhorse that is the i7-2600K CPU.
When AMD merged with ATI in 2006, they immediately began working on combining discrete level graphics onto the die with an x86 CPU, thus forming an Accelerated Processing Unit (APU). In 2009, AMD expanded on that effort by launching VISION with the intent of shaping the performance of a PC to fit the needs of the user. Five years after the merger, AMD's design has come to fruition in desktop form. In this article, Benchmark Reviews is taking a look at the AMD A-Series A8-3850 APU.
Bereits vor einigen Jahren hatte der Prozessorhersteller AMD unter dem Codenamen "Fusion" die Verschmelzung von Prozessor und Grafikkarte angekündigt. Intel brachte mit der "Clarkdale"-Familie bereits Anfang 2010 solche Prozessoren auf den Markt, nun zieht auch endlich AMD nach. Mit "Llano" bzw. der neuen "Lynx"-Plattform brachte man vor Kurzem die ersten "Fusion"-Ableger auf den Markt. Selbige bedienen dabei das Mainstream-Segment, was sich im Preis, aber auch in der Leistung widerspiegelt.
We have been waiting for months, but Bulldozer is finally here. The weeks leading up to the launch of the new FX line of processors hasn't been the best for AMD with a large amount of leaks that haven't put the new FX-8150 in the best light. Today, though, leaks don't matter; unofficial results don't matter. We've got all the latest drivers, the latest BIOS updates and it's time to see what Bulldozer can do. There's no denying that AMD are going to have a tough fight on their hands, though. AMD have stated that the new platform is only designed to compete against the current crop of Sandy Bridge CPUs.
The Corsair CMGTX4 and CMGTX7 were two of the fastest RAM kits available at the time; they carried with them a huge price tag and 'till today, the speed on the GTX4 kit is just insane. Both kits are dual channel, but neither would achieve their rated speeds. While overclocking on the Z68 platform is great, its memory overclocking is limited and actually not as strong as the older P55 when it comes to raw MHz. Having unfortunately admitted defeat on these two kits, I never got around to actually looking at them, because we couldn't get the default speeds.
After the hectic week of testing this brand new 8 core CPU from Advanced Micro Design, it's time to go a bit deeper. In this review we are gonna retest the Bulldozer CPU versus it's main rivals. Being AMD's own Thuban 1090T, Intels 2600K and the almighty Gulftown 990X CPU. Mainly because our test suite had to be slightly updated to give the new Zambezi architecture a shot to maybe show it's true potential. But most important to show some people the real deal. I've myself read through a few articles on AMD's latest flagship. To be honest some reviews made me wonder if they were really done or just a copy paste of the marketing slides. It was also kind of funny to see some renown websites include completely GPU bottlenecked game benchmarks. Kinda hard to tell the importance of the CPU part don't you think ? Even if they call it real world scenarios, it still made my eyebrows frown as they hardly used any game tests in older reviews. Why now include them ? So without boring you too much with my frustrations, let's get it on...
Vor knapp drei Jahren stellte der Chipgigant Intel eine Oberklasse-Plattform auf Basis des Sockel LGA1366 samt X58-Chipsatz und den dazugehörigen Core-i7-900-Prozessoren vor, die in Sachen Performance zum Marktstart ihres gleichen suchte. Doch mittlerweile konnte die innovative Sandy-Bridge-Architektur - die Anfang dieses Jahres zusammen mit dem Sockel LGA1155 das Licht der Öffentlichkeit erblickte - die Performance-Krone an sich reißen. Es wird also höchste Zeit für eine neue High-End-Option: Deshalb schickt Intel heute offiziell Sandy Bridge Extreme ins Rennen, um auch Enthusiasten wieder eine kompromisslose Auswahl an entsprechend leistungsfähigen Komponenten bereitstellen zu können. Wir schauen uns das Flaggschiff in Form des Core i7-3960X genauer an und werfen auch einen Blick auf den Sockel LGA2011 und den X79-PCH.
Am heutigen Tage hat Microsoft für das Betriebssystem Windows 7 einen Hotfix veröffentlicht, der die Probleme beheben soll, die sein jüngstes OS in Kombination mit einem AMD FX-Prozessor hat, die Lasten optimal auf die in Modulbauweise gefertigten Kerne zu verteilen, sodass am Ende die optimale Leistung dabei herauskommt. Bereits im Vorfeld der AMD FX "Bulldozer" Präsentation hatte AMD darauf hingewiesen, dass der Scheduler von Windows 7, der die Prozesse bzw. die Threads auf die vorhandenen Kerne verteilt, suboptimal arbeitet für den Bulldozer. Nun soll es ein Patch richten, doch der versagt kläglich...
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