We already talked about AMD’s upcoming A8-3870K and A6-3670K Llano APUs in several articles published earlier this month, but now AMD has made the existence, as well as the specifications of these unlocked chips, official. Both of these APUs were recently added by the Sunnyvale-based company to its product database, where the processors were...
Intel is preparing a new revision of its current desktop Sandy Bridge-E processors launched in mid-November that will arrive in January of 2012 and will fix the VT-d errata present in the C1 stepping of these CPUs. As our review of the Core i7-3960X has shown, when used for running highly multi-threaded apps the...
Coolink has announced a new cooler for central processing units that should already be found up for order online, at a price of $44.90 in the US and 39.90 Euro in Europe. The US price would normally translate into 33 Euro or thereabouts, but this is, once again, one of those cases where exchange...
Intel’s upcoming Sandy Bridge-E processors have made their appearance in more than one online stores by now, but recently the chips were also listed in the US where a store offers its customers the chance to pre-order the upcoming Core i7-3930K and i7-3960X. The chips were spotted by CPU-World in the online store of...
Today’s launch of the FX-Series processors hasn’t been the success that everybody has hoped for and AMD knows that, so in the following years the company plans to improve the speed of the Bulldozer cores by 10 to 15 percent with each new generation that arrives. This information was made public by AMD itself...
While AMD still has more than a week to go until it launches its first FX-Series processors based on the high-performance Bulldozer architecture, pictures depicting an FX-8150 CPU inside its retail packaging have already made their way to the Web. Just as AMD has said before, the CPU is packaged inside a metal box...
The rumors regarding Intel’s plans to launch the first high-performance desktop processors based on the Sandy Bridge-E architecture on November 15 seem to be wrong, as a recent report that just hit the Web suggests these CPUs will actually arrive one day sooner, on November 14. Oddly enough, the processors won’t be launched alongside...
Even though Sandy Bridge-E processors aren’t expected to arrive until mid-November, a Chinese website has already started selling Intel’s upcoming flagship processor based on this architecture, the Core i7-3960X, for a whopping $2001 US (1451 Euro). The processors being sold (more than 15 are available) are actually engineering samples, meant to be used by...
In just a few weeks time, Intel is expected to bring the first update to it high-end Sandy Bridge processor lineup with the introduction of the Core i7-2700K CPU, which was just confirmed to have a base operating frequency of 3.5GHz. The upcoming Intel chip was recently listed by motherboard maker Biostar in the...
At the same time with Intel’s IDF, AMD is hosting its own press event meant to showcase the company’s latest technologies and chips, and one of the most interesting demonstrations to take place over there is a comparison between a yet-unreleased FX-Series processor and some Intel Core CPUs. AMD hasn’t disclosed the specs of...
