Intel's Core 2 Duo volley scored a solid hit on AMD, which had dominated the desktop performance segment for a number of years with the Athlon 64. The Core 2 Duo's gaming performance moved Intel out ...

To stay competitive, Intel is taking familiar steps with its Kentsfield, Clovertown, and Tigeron quad-core server and PC chips. Photo: Intel four-cores Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to ...

Intel fans have been patiently waiting for the company to release their lineup of refreshed Core 2 Duo and Quad products. Intel started hyping these revised components late last year, and they were ...

It has been surprising and frankly somewhat satisfying to see the success to date of the "Wolfdale" core architecture in Intel’s Core 2 lineup of processors. "Wolfdale" is Intel’s first 45nm based ...

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I wish to upgrade my PC from Intel Pentium 4 506. I have choices for Intel Core2 duo E8400 3GHz, Intel Core 2 Quad q8200 and Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700. I am not a hardcore gamer. Which one is better for ...

Brooke Crothers writes about mobile computer systems, including laptops, tablets, smartphones: how they define the computing experience and the hardware that makes them tick. He has served as an ...

The past few days have seen a burst of quad-core-related news items from both AMD and Intel. In this post, I’ll take a look at announcements from both companies and try to put them in the larger ...

New York — The formal introduction of the gaming optimized Intel Core 2 Extreme quad-core QX6700 processor has led to a burst of product upgrades from PC vendors today. The new processor can provide a ...

We have some disturbing news for everyone who wants to buy a Core 2 Duo or Quad this Xmas. Intel expects massive shortages of all Core 2 Duo processors from now to ...

Our first batch of results has been recorded using 3Dmark Vantage as we look at the CPU and GPU scores. Regardless of the processor the Asus GeForce 9800 GX2 graphics card produces roughly the same ...

The memory performance of the quad-core Q6600 and QX6700 processors is almost the same as that of the E6700. Both quad-core processors are using DDR2-800 memory on a 1066MHz quad-pumped FSB, so the ...