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Intel Core i7 3980X Extreme Edition Processor
The Core i7 900 series has acted as Intel’s premier product range for over three year now, with the platform culminating in the six-cored 990X Extreme Edition. This architecture’s replacement is finally upon us, and as you would hope from Intel’s new flagship, there are plenty of improvements to talk about. The product launch of…
Intel Core i7-3960X Sandy Bridge-E Extreme Processor
Say hello to Sandy Bridge-E. That’s E for Extreme Intel’s new Core i7-3960X Extreme processor marks the debut of Sandy Bridge-E. The E suffix stands for Extreme so it follows quite logically that Sandy Bridge-E combines Sandy Bridge Core i5/i7 technology with the sort of thinking that gave us the original Core i7 920 and…
AMD FX-8150 3.6GHz Bulldozer processor
AMD’s new Bulldozer architecture is a major change from its previous Phenom and Phenom II processor technology, as it introduces us to an eight-core processor. That’s eight hardware cores, rather than four cores using Hyper-Threading – with the release of its first Bulldozer chip, the FX-8150, AMD genuinely is breaking new ground. It may sound…
AMD A8-3850 processor
It has been quite a while since AMD brought processors to the market that have caught people’s attention – but with its new A series of APUs (Accelerated Processing Units), it has done just that. The new desktop Llano APUs (codenamed Lynx) are aimed at the mainstream market and combine a quad-core CPU, GPU and…