Intel plans to ramp up its Atom-brand of processors in the near future, with dual-core parts and a speed bump to 1.87GHz.Read More...
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Intel's Atom will eventually ship in single, dual-core flavors
http://arstechnica.comBuilding a PC March Progress
http://www.ghacks.netWe are coming closer to the finish line. I’m thinking of making the purchase of the new PC components in the next month or the month thereafter. I would like to thank everyone for their great and valuable comments which pointed me into the right directions concerning some components.
Read more »Real-Time Raytracing
http://www.codinghorror.comLike many programmers, my first exposure to Ray Tracing was on my venerable Commodore Amiga. It's an iconic system demo every Amiga user has seen at some point: behold the robot juggling silver spheres!
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Intel's 45nm Dual-Core E8500: The Best Just Got Better
http://www.anandtech.comIntel continues to assert their processor marketplace dominance with the release of a new line of 45nm dual-core CPUs designed to bring outstanding performance and energy efficiency to the desktop.
Read more »Intel Core 2 Processor Performance Comparison Guide Rev. 2.1
http://www.techarp.comSpecifications are all well and great, but can you really tell how much faster is one processor from another?
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ED#80 : Intel 1600 MHz Platform Update
http://www.techarp.comEveryone’s waiting for the new 1600 MHz FSB to become mainstream. Thanks to the lack of a P2P interconnect, the performance of Core 2 processors are now limited by the front side bus speed. With that, we bring you the latest updates on the Intel 1600 MHz platform. Will 1600 MHz become mainstream soon? Check it out!
Read more »Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad Core Processor Review
http://www.techarp.comThe Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 quad-core processor is no mere upgrade of the Kentsfield-based Core 2 Extreme processors. Underneath the heatspreader lies a radically-different processor, built not only using the smaller 45 nm process technology but also Intel's new high-k dielectric and metal gate technology. The result? A smaller, cooler and more efficient processor. Oh, let's not forget... a 50% larger L2 cache! The Core 2 Extreme QX9650 sports a massive 12MB L2 cache. All with the same TDP of 130 W. Amazing, isn't it? But how fast is it really?
Read more »Hard Drive Performance Comparison Guide Rev. 1.2
http://www.techarp.comEver wanted a guide on hard drive performance, where you can compare the performance of a wide range of hard drives? Well, we are not quite there yet, but that is our ultimate objective. In this performance comparison guide, we will test and compare the performance of all the hard drives we can get our hands on. This is similar to what we are doing in the Intel Core 2 Processor Performance Comparison Guide.
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