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Buying Guide: Best motherboard: 9 top boards reviewed and rated
Introduction Not all that long ago, the CPU contained an execution core, maybe two cores if you were really lucky. And that was it. Everything was onboard and that made your choice of board super...
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Updated: 12 best graphics cards for every budget
Top graphics cards: choosing the right one Better than ever, and yet a lot worse. That just about sums up the contradictory, confusing state of PC graphics at the moment. On the one hand, has there...
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Intel Devil’s Canyon: what you need to know about the latest Core processors
Intel has announced its latest high-end processors to the world. Codenamed Devil’s Canyon (Intel’s codenames are getting better), we first heard of this chip series back in March, but we’re only now...
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Updated: Haswell: everything you need to know about Intel’s latest Core...
Intel’s new Haswell chips are here. The question is, should you care? As we’ll discover, the answer depends entirely on what you want from a PC. Haswell is a new family of 22nm processors from Intel,...
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In Depth: Intel Broadwell vs Haswell: What’s new in Intel CPUs?
Broadwell is the next generation of Intel Core CPUs. It will power most of the laptops and desktops we’ll see over the next 18 months, among other kinds of gadget. It’s not here yet, but many, many...
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Intel Xeon E5 to move to Haswell within months
Intel has started shipping new models of its Xeon E5 processors with products likely to come over the next few months, its CEO Brian Krzanich announced during an earnings call. These will sport...
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Intel tweaks its Xeon CPU for Oracle
Intel has announced that Oracle’s Exadata Database Machine X4-8, a data crunching powerhouse, will come be powered by a 15-core Xeon processor. That means that the CPU can be optimised on the fly...
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In Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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How Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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Analysis: Will Intel’s Skylake processor sink Broadwell before it can swim?
Just as Intel begins shipping its Broadwell CPUs early next year their successors will already be with software developers. Will there be any point in upgrading to the 5th Gen Core processors when a...
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Analysis: Pentium FDIV: The processor bug that shook the world
This week we celebrate the 20th anniversary of the FDIV bug, an error in the then-new Intel Pentium processor. It was discovered by Thomas Nicely, a professor of mathematics, on 19 October 1994 and...
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CES 2015: Intel’s Broadwell-U CPUs promise big battery boost and faster gaming
Intel has unveiled its fifth generation Core processor family, commonly known as Broadwell-U, one that supersedes Ivy Bridge and complements the company’s existing Core M processor range – which...
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In Depth: Intel processors: everything you need to know
Introduction and Core processors Not so long ago, processors were judged largely by raw clock speed alone, a measure of how many calculations the chip is capable of performing in the space of a...
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Opinion: Why the Celeron doesn’t deserve all the hate
There’s an entry for a humble microprocessor on Urban Dictionary which was written back in 2006. The author decided to vent his frustration using very colourful language to describe, what is...
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Intel targets mission critical applications with new Xeon chips
Intel has refreshed its top of the range Xeon processors with the new Xeon E7 v3 models, based on the Haswell microarchitecture, a product line that will target analytics, business intelligence, ERP,...
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Updated: How to buy a PC for editing video and photos
Introduction With everything in this world turning digital, manipulating and editing vast amounts of full HD video (and in some cases 4K) and multi-megabyte images is starting to become a job many of...
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Here’s a company that wants to start an ARMs race by keeping Intel outside
Introduction Earlier this year, a little-known Chinese company emerged as a potential suitor for AMD, the US-based archrival to Intel. That company, Loongson, shares common roots with Lenovo, the...
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In Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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How Intel’s plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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In Depth: How Intel plans to redefine power computing with new Haswell-E CPU
If you follow Intel’s tick-tock processor chronology, you’ll know that we’re due a ‘tick’ – a die shrink of the current process architecture. Called Broadwell, we’ll see most of those parts in very...
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