Archive for January, 2009

DFI on Cooler Market

Thursday, January 29th, 2009

A CPU cooler marked with LanParty has been leaked by Clunk.org.uk, which might mean DFI will enter into cooler market for more gains. The cooler features dual-tower design and six heat sinks. It seems not easy to install it for normal users. According to the pictures, it doesn’t come with fan, and judging by the [...]

Phenom II X4 950 at 3.1GHz to rise in Q2

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

AMD officially announced its 45nm processor Phenom II Series on January 8th, and there were only two models of CPU at that time, that is Phenom II X4 920 of 2.8 GHz and Phenom II X4 940 of 3.0GHz.
Expected to be released in Q2 this year, Phenom II X4 950 only offers 100MHz higher clock [...]

Intel Core 2 Duo clocked at 3.5 GHz priced only 260 Euro

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The recently-revealed Core 2 Duo E8700 has actually become available in one belgian store. Clocked at 3.5 GHz, the dual-core LGA775 processor is priced at 259,90 Euro, some 25 Euro higher than the 3.33 GHz E8600. The E8700 is listed as ‘out of stock’ but that’s to be expected as Intel will likely want to [...]

CPU cooler from Prolimatech

Tuesday, January 27th, 2009

The cpu cooler comes from a company called Prolimatech and it’s avaiable in Europe, selling for 59.90EUR.This cooler features dual-tower design and six 6mm heat sinks. Total size is 130×74×158.7mm and weight of 790g, it doesn’t come with a fan but you can install a fan with 57CFM of airflow.
Pics via: [Caseking.de]

Intel Core 2 Duo E7300 VS. AMD Athlon X2 7750

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Its code name is Kuma, 2.7GHz, 200MHz FSB, 13.5x multiplier, each core 64K L1 instruction Cache and 64K L1 data Cache, 2×512KB L2 cache, 2MB L3 cache and it supports SSE, SSE2, SSE3, SSE4A and X86-64. In AthlonX2 7750 black edition reviewed we contrasted its performances with Athlon X2 5400? black edition and it really [...]

AMD Phenom II pricing

Monday, January 19th, 2009

It’s been about a week since AMD officially launched its new family of CPUs: the Phenom II, so we thought we’d have a look at UK pricing and availability.
Unable to compete with Intel in the upper echelons of CPU performance, AMD is focusing on price/performance as one of the key selling points of its CPUs. [...]

Intel’s CULV to come in Q2

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Vendors expect  to ship 10 million units this year
Intel’s new platform for thin and light ultraportables should appear as early as Q2 2009, according to Digitimes. The new platform, dubbed CULV for consumer ultra-low voltage, is a tweaked ULV Core series architecture, designed to take on AMD’s Neo platform.
According to reports, the top three [...]

Intel’s new release: Core 2 Quad Q7500

Monday, January 19th, 2009

Intel is planning to fight back against AMD not only with price cuts but also with a new release, that of the Core 2 Quad Q7500. Made using the 45nm process, the Core 2 Quad Q7500 has a working frequency of 2.6 GHz, a TDP of 65W, a FSB of 800MHz and just 2MB of [...]

AMD 3.1 GHz Phenom II for Q2

Monday, January 19th, 2009

AMD will have a busy year, following the release of two 45nm desktop CPUs, the Phenom II X4 940 BE and X4 920, it will also introduce the first DDR3-supporting Phenoms – six starting February. Following the initial AM3 roll-out, in Q2 AMD is expected to up the ante and put more pressure on Intel’s [...]

AMD delivers Sempron 210U and 200U CPUs

Thursday, January 15th, 2009

AMD has now introduced two new processors , the Sempron 210U and 200U. Featuring a lidless Ball Grid Array packaging, the two new low-power 65nm CPUs are set to be used for anything from enterprise-class thin client systems to point of sale kiosks, digital signage and more.
“These new lidless BGA packaged processors can help [...]